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Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Us

New York, New York, Us

St. Paul, Mn, Us

Responsible for identifying long-term research and development opportunities for data science, collaborating with marketing and technology leaders across divisions to build and execute on an advanced analytics project pipeline, and operationalizing machine learning workloads.● Worked closely with internal and external stakeholders to evaluate, select, and deploy a data science platform for the enterprise.● Lead Machine Learning Operations and Solution Architecture initiatives for the enterprise, with a focus on enabling the creation of machine learning pipelines on Azure / Kubeflow. Designed and implemented DevOps best practices for enterprise deployments.● Create and operationalize distributed machine learning pipelines for time series forecasting, product recommendation, activity classification, and directed selling initiatives.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Provide leadership to a cross-business product development team. Worked closely with customers to identify long-term opportunities to create sustainable, differentiated solutions.● Collaborated with global Vice Presidents of Technology, Technical Directors, Marketing Directors and Portfolio Managers to build technology roadmaps and execute on a vision within a stage-gate framework.● Introduced and championed the field of Data Science into the organization by building a team to apply business intelligence and machine learning tools to drive business decisions.● Built and led an in-house cross-functional Data Science council to construct a project pipeline. Established support and funding for the pipeline from executive leadership, and led partnerships with both external and internal resources to identify relevant business opportunities.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Provide leadership to intermediate range product development research team. Worked directly with global customers and internal business development team to identify opportunities and build a technology portfolio to drive global growth. Developed and launched a global product line that has resulted in $100MM in top line sales.Established a partnership with a major University, and through that partnership, introduced tribology as a materials characterization tool to Valspar. Successfully translated the science of tribology into new, differentiated products within the coil coatings segment, and extended that work to include the pipe coatings segment.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Established and led a team within the Coil coatings division to drive growth through innovation. The team was responsible for developing differentiated products for the North American Coil market, and supporting growth of core business through customer interactions and technology advancements. Developed and patented differentiated coating technology the provided savings in excess of $250K/year. This technology was translated to European customers, where it helps drive growth, and has led to Valspar receiving an Innovation Award in 2014.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Led the development of exterior durable polyesters and silicone-modified polyesters for the Steel Building Products market, through application of materials science tools to drive the development process. Collaborated with global technology stakeholders to understand the Voice of Customer as a driver for product development, and to act on those defined customer needs. Outgrowth was a series of products to meet the needs of the global regions for the steel building products market segment.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Led the integration and consolidation of complementary coil coating technologies during the Valspar-Lilly acquisition. Required strong collaboration with internal stakeholders to successfully move in-house tint formulations and polymer technologies in-house with no disruption of business.

Responsible for leading the development of new products for the Appliance Coil Coatings segment, and for the development of weatherable systems for entry into the Steel Building Products market. Collaborated closely with polymer scientists to understand the role of polymer structure-property relationships and the impact on coating performance.Successfully managed the technology and quality aspects of integrating $30MM of business during a plant closure.

New chemist at a green-field production facility responsible for all aspects of product development and production support. A dynamic environment with a 'get it done' mindset that required adaptability and a willingness to take on any task to satisfy customer requirements. Work focused heavily on dispersion and color science to assure product stability for manufacturing process.

Design Thinking & The Art Of Innovation

M. Sc., Chemistry

B. Sc., Chemistry