Ian Kessler Email & Phone Number

With a Master's degree in data science and a special interest in data engineering and deep learning, I look forward to a successful career in data engineering or machine learning engineering.My experience from developing algorithms, machine learning models, and relational databases has given me skills in manipulating Pandas dataframes, Numpy arrays, and Django objects. Furthermore, my background in mathematics--including linear algebra, combinatorics, and linear/nonlinear programming--has given me skills in generalizing software and optimizing computations.At Sidney Health Center, I am creating an app with the Django web framework that will track the hospital's inventory. Employees will be able to purchase items from the inventory for various departments using the app's shopping cart. Purchases through the shopping cart make changes to the relational data base. With the app's database and interface, we can create grouped aggregations to see the quantity of each item being purchased and the amount billed to each department on daily basis, enabling us to implement better inventory policies.In my courses at MSU, I created algorithms that addressed data science and graph optimization problems. In my Machine Learning course, I worked on projects with my partner that trained models on various data sets to perform supervised learning. Our projects varied in methods of supervised learning, including Naive Bayes, k-Nearest Neighbors, and Neural Networks. We created our algorithms without the use of Python ML packages in order to have a better understanding of the fundamentals. In my Algorithms course, I wrote algorithms that utilized methods like Divide-and-Conquer, Dynamic Programming, and Ford-Fulkerson, which were applied to Discrete Fourier Transform, Segmented Least Squares, and finding max flow, respectively. For my final project of my Mathematics of Machine Learning course, I created a Deep Q-Learning model for the Traveling Salesman Problem and tested its accuracy with the Held-Karp algorithm.I am currently seeking opportunities in data engineering and machine learning engineering, especially in technology, finance, healthcare, and retail industries. I look forward to applying my skills to contribute in creating effective data science applications.

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