James Maccarthy Email & Phone Number

Alexandria, Va, Us

> Oversee contracts with external partners to develop machine learning pipelines for classifying near real-time deforestation alerts using imagery from earth observation satellites > Lead the prioritization of wildfire research and data products and engage with partners to build a coalition around fire-related issues

> Created data solutions to achieve goals by defining user requirements, developing performance metrics, and architecting data pipelines—built monitoring and evaluation frameworks and tools to track the status of five diseases across 1,000+ districts in 11 different countries> Developed statistical models in R using structured and unstructured data on a variety of projects, including evaluating consumer behavior related to the purchase of illegal wildlife products in Thailand using data collected from 2,000+ people> Led the deployment of ArcGIS Enterprise in Microsoft Azure and supported project efficiencies by prototyping and building interactive data and mapping dashboards to track project activities and measure progress towards key indicators> Doubled productivity on several projects by automating data cleaning, management, analysis, and visualization processes with R and Python scripts

> Built custom neural networks using transfer learning in TensorFlow to accurately classify images> Created statistical model from time series data to predict future temperature trends for several cities that incorporated seasonal fluctuations identified through Fourier analysis> Analyzed GitHub data dump with more than 24 million observations to identify differences between veteran and novice users, predict tags for questions based on the body text, and generate word vectors to identify semantically similar words

Arlington, Va

> Established several best practices for ecological field methods and data management by drafting research protocols and data dictionaries> Automated robust data quality processes for large-scale ecological databases with millions of records using R scripts> Collaborated with software engineers to design and launch software products to help researchers efficiently process images and quantify the number of animals living in forested regions> Led trainings and provided technical support for staff across seven time zones and 15+ countries

Master Of Environmental Management (Mem), Ecosystem Science And Conservation

Activities and Societies: Student Association for Geospatial Analysis (President), Duke Conservation Society (Treasurer), Eno Literary.

B.A. (Magnum Cum Laude), Environmental Science

Activities and Societies: Wheaton Woods Conservation Society, Community for Sustainable Agriculture at Wheaton, Sustainability Committee.