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Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Led general R&D for data-driven, algorithmic marketing to bank’s retail and small business customers• Built suites of models for propensity to purchase and churn (Python, LightGBM), modeling behavior of entire customer base for the first time• Built datasets of customer features and partnered with data engineers to deploy into both on-prem Hadoop cluster and GCP, greatly accelerating model building and ad-hoc customer analytics• Established best practices for version control, model monitoring, and documentation

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Led the technical review, testing, and benchmarking of models used for risk rating, stress testing, and loss forecasting• Presented results to senior mgmt. and regulators, passing high-stakes exams required for approval of the firm's capital plan• Developed a rolling-window testing framework for time-series models, resulting in automated, rigorous model evaluation• Written technical reports were praised by 3rd-party auditors as some of the best they've seen in the industry

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Greater New York City Area

This was an R&D role at an early-stage healthcare-tech start-up whose products are based on computer vision. • Designed algorithms for a medication adherence‒based score for patients in clinical trials and a next-gen barcode for pill identification and authentication.

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Master Of Science (M.S.), Mathematics, Gpa: 3.96

Second-Degree Undergraduate Student, Mathematics And Computer Science, Gpa: 4.0

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology