Jay Harrison Email & Phone Number

Ballwin, Mo, Us

St Louis, Mo, Us

Description: Providing leadership in data science for the identification, isolation, production, and commercialization of plant and soil inputs for the enhancement of crop production.Sample accomplishments: Establishing SQL database for field trial results, formalizing and documenting analysis procedures, developing text analytics for entity identification in agriculture

Mclean, Va, Us

Description: Applications of data science methods for government organizations requiring security clearance Sample accomplishments: Developed text analytics routines for matching skills to job requirements and identifying fuzzy matches to keywords in verbal assessments

Vevey, Ch

Description: Addressing business opportunities and challenges with forecasting, machine learning, optimization, and simulationSample accomplishments: Starting and operating a citizen data scientist program for analytically-minded colleagues; winner of internal crowdsourcing contest for new product development; nominated for Intrapreneur of the Year award (2021); applying text mining techniques with language translation for root cause analyses related to internal requests for assistance, customer feedback, and corporate communications

New York, New York, Us

Description: Providing statistical support and documenting procedures for Meridian Medical Technologies, Inc., a Pfizer companySample accomplishments: Categorizing subjective inspection results using text n-grams, modernizing quality control methodology by setting control limits usingzero-inflated models for discrete counts and mixture normal models, automatingreports for process monitoring with company templates using R Markdown

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Description: Applying data science to improve patient safety and quality in SSM Health's Center for Clinical ExcellenceSample accomplishments: Mined text provided on responses on patient satisfaction questionnaires; designed templates for reporting statistical findings using Markdown; advised hospitals on strategies to improve quality rankings using machine learning models

St. Charles, Mo, Us

Description: Serving as the first dedicated statistical resource for a pet food manufacturing company, working with marketing, research, and executive departments in the US and EuropeSample accomplishments: Used patient rule induction method and various predictive analytics routines for big data, including extreme gradient boosting and recursive partitioning with random forests, extreme gradient boosting, support vector machines, and neural networks, to predict high-performing combinations of ingredients in dog and cat food products and find root causes of manufacturing and shipping issues; developed multivariate Bayesian analysis routine to describe preferences and biases in pet food preference experiments; used statistical analysis of photos to link product performance to a chemical reaction, to extract text using OCR technology, and to estimate sizes of structural features; secured a partnership to develop a new product for pets with an external vendor; standardized names of chemical ingredients for analysis using fuzzy text-matching algorithms, language translation, and chemical databases; applied generalized linear models with random effects and zero-inflation parameters to describe cat behavior in tasting experiments; found relationships between animal demographic variables and preferences for food ingredients using L-shaped partial least squares regression; reported on current trends in pet food industry to management based on text analytics of industry articles; developed algorithms to screen resumes of job applicants for human resources using text analytics; conducted experiments to measure viewers’ perceptions of differences in amounts of pet food consumed; used quality control methodology for process improvement in production of rapid screening tests for genetically modified organisms; supervised one biostatistician

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Description: Applying text analytics, statistics, and graphics to serve clients in industry and governmentSample accomplishments: Predicted sales during holiday seasons for a client in the furniture industry with time series analysis augmented with text data from mentions in social media; applied topic modeling with latent Dirichlet allocation to describe topics of conversation during a political campaign and used sentiment analysis to identify the issues that were most important to potential voters; prepared graphical displays of photos with image quilts using image analysis; monitored and mapped movements of people wearing electronic sensors; derived a confirmatory factor analysis model to score corporate statements and press releases in terms of trust to support a patent application

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Description: Providing statistical consulting and text analytics for Maritz core businesses (travel, motivation, and consumer research)Sample accomplishments: Performed workforce analytics to measure employee satisfaction and detect internal threats from inappropriate comments expressed on freeform text entries and e-mail in corporate databases, conducted predictive analytics for anticipating participant behavior in customer loyalty programs and conference attendance and activity; analyzed written comments from customer surveys to suggest needed improvements in customer service to management; applied naïve Bayes and support vector machine algorithms to distinguish authentic reviews of car rental experiences from advertisements; derived market segmentation clusters to identify groups of similar car rental customers

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Description: Designing and analyzing agricultural experiments to demonstrate safety and efficacy of foods derived with biotechnology Sample accomplishments: Consistently provided accurate and detailed statistical reports under time pressure; provided statistical consulting for colleagues on six continents; supervised junior statisticians and graduate interns; implemented Bayesian modeling strategies for commercial advancement and regulatory approval of new products; wrote statistical articles on Bayesian and multivariate statistical methodology for publication in peer-reviewed scientific journals; organized opportunities for continuing education for other Monsanto statisticians

Marcy-L'Étoile, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Fr

Description: Applied algorithms for detecting and classifying microorganisms to diagnose and treat infectious diseases

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Description: Provided statistical support to veterinarians, engineers, and biochemists working with dog and cat nutrition and behaviorSample accomplishments: Analyzed data from a landmark 14-year study involving proper feeding to extend lifetimes of dogs; provided weekly statistical forecasts of orders of products from manufacturing plants to retailers

Gainesville, Florida, Us

Description: Consulting with faculty and graduate students in agriculture, veterinary sciences, rural sociology, and wildlife ecology

Rochester, Minnesota, Us

Description: Consulting with physicians and health professionals in pediatrics, hepatology, hematology, dentistry, cardiology, and other medical disciplines

Ms, Statistics

Ma, Educational Research And Evaluation Methodology

Bs, Bioengineering