Jon Vail Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Projects- Ames Housing and a project where I performed regression analysis to predict housing prices in Ames Iowa. Used linear regression and lasso regularization to create my model.- West Nile was a group project where we performed classification analysis on weather and location data to predict when West Nile Virus was most present in Chicago. Used random forest and balance bagging classifier to create the model.- Horror Writers was my capstone project where I performed NLP on text from 3 horror writes to predict who wrote what sentence. I used TF-IDF, Logistic Regression, Feature Union, and nltk to create the model and features used in the model.

Data Analytics Team Head (July 2016–Jan 2018)• Team management: Managed the workload to the Data Analytics Team in the Fraud Department• Project Management: Oversaw creation of modelling system using SAS to detect fraudulent claims. Budget for the system above one million dollars• Reports: Created and ran reports daily for management to have a better understanding of the current environment• Database Restructuring: Gave input to team managing the database structure on how to best fix problems the analytics team was havingBusiness Intelligence & Integration Analyst (Oct 2013–July 2016)• Operational Analysis: Created processes for claim evaluation focusing on fraud detection. By the end of the project, the department had stopped an estimated $500 million dollars of fraudulent claims• Team Building: Fostered new working environment for department that grew from 4 to around 100 people. Created the learning documents used for training new employees in the settlement program and how to detect fraud

Baton Rouge, La, Us

• Claims Analysis: Processed Business Economic Loss claims for payment

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Review companies accounting practices and methodsPrepare accounts using Quickbooks OnlineProcess Payroll, bills, commission, and invoices for advertisement sales and other income

Developed template documents for better office productivityCreated and maintained mailing lists for weekly updates

Baton Rouge, La, Us

Operated cameras, teleprompter, and audio board in studio and live newscastsTrained new employees with procedure and equipmentCreated new and more effective schedule for part-time workers

Facilitate between heads of station and members of the show and developed show personalityDirector, Prepared and executed actions needed on shootsActor, Played many different types of characters in sketchesWriter, Formulated interesting sketches and assisted other writers with their sketches

Wrote articles for site that would engage readers with opportunities and insights into causes and news on non-profitsContributed marketing plans and ideas for the site and applications for off-site material like iPhone applications.

Recorded daily stock and salesTrained new employeesInteracted with customers

Data Science Intensive

Mba, Finance

B.S., Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science, Marketing, Operations, Entrepreneurship