Joseph Siryani, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Marietta, Georgia, Us

★ Strategizes, implements, oversees, and develops Data Science and AI-based Predictive Models for Wellstar Health System strategic, clinical, operational, and financial functional areas and entities. ✔ Grow the new Data Science function at Wellstar by working directly with leaders and clinical teams within the organization to help identify high value opportunities to apply data science methods and deliver meaningful and actionable insights.✔ Lead the Data Science Team by establishing clear goals, developing future state core competencies within the team and build a culture of open communication and collaboration.✔ Provide leadership, technical expertise, and facilitation of Agile project activities. ✔ Establish the Epic-First Strategy and build its Roadmap to realize both Epic pre-built and custom-built Machine Learning (ML) Predictive Models to automate and maximize clinical, operational, and financial business outcomes.✔ Drive the tools and techniques used for ML/AI and deliver timely, accurate and actionable information to the organization.

Washington, D.C., Us

Teaching the following courses to graduate students enrolled in the Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) programs within the Decision Sciences department:✔ Programming for Analytics I -Embark on an R-programming bootcamp, equipping yourself with essential skills for data analysis and statistical modeling.✔ Programming for Analytics II - Delve into Python programming, emphasizing exploratory data analysis, machine learning, and advanced analytics encompassing predictive and prescriptive analytics techniques.✔ Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Generative AI (Gen AI)- Explore the exciting realm of Python-based NLP, LLMs, and Gen AI, gaining a deep understanding of how these technologies are transforming various industries.✔ Forecasting for Analytics - This course focuses on Time Series analysis and the practical application of actionable insights using SAS.✔ Decision Models - This comprehensive module covers three core areas: - Optimization Models: Model elements, Linear Programming (LP), Integer Linear Programming (ILP), Non-linear Programming (NLP), and linearization with binary variables. Explore their applications in Business Operations, Finance, Resource Allocation, and Risk-Reward Analysis, employing tools like Solver.- Decision Tree Models: Structure strategic options under uncertainty. Utilize Decision Trees.- Monte Carlo (MC) Simulation Models: Gain proficiency in quantifying risks and forecasting decision outcomes using probability distributions to model uncertainties. Utilize tools like Crystal Ball to enhance the decision-making capabilities.✔ Social Network Analytics - Examines the dynamics of social networks and provide the tools and knowledge needed to analyze, understand, and harness the power of social connections in the digital age.

Ithaca, Ny, Us

✔ Instructing and facilitating the "Python Programming" Certificate courses within the Data Science Executive Certificate.✔ Instructing and facilitating the "Machine Learning" Certificate courses within the Data Science Executive Certificate.✔ Instructing and facilitating the "Python for Data Science" Certificate courses within the Data Science Executive Certificate.✔ Instructing and facilitating the "Data Visualization in Tableau" Certificate Courses: - Creating Data Visualizations with Tableau Course - Enhancing Data Visualizations with Tableau Course - Telling a Data-Driven Story with Tableau✔ Instructing and facilitating the "AI Strategy" Certificate Courses: - Introduction to AI - Knowledge-Based AI Technologies - Machine Learning and Data-Based Approached to AI - Strategic Implementation of AI Systems - Societal Impacts of AI - The Future of AI

Member of Board of Directors.

Columbia, Md, Us

★ Strategizes, implements, oversees, and provides consulting for multidisciplinary programs and initiatives to develop advanced analytical infrastructure for MedStar Health strategic and operational functional areas and entities. ✔ Leads and directs effective collaboration between Enterprise Analytics, clinical, technical and nontechnical associates to assess, analyze, and define analytical requirements and to strategize design and implementation of applications to transform data management, analytical, and decision making capabilities at MedStar.✔ Serves as primary contact and resource with other corporate functional areas and other MedStar entities regarding Enterprise Analytics resources and requests.✔ Oversees project teams to develop and advance MedStar's analytical capabilities and system-wide adoption of state-of-the-art technical tools using the MedStar Analytics Platform integrating data from clinical, operational, financial, population health, and other systems across all entities of MedStar Health.✔ Fosters a data-driven culture with deep understanding of data sources, systems, and process flow to make recommendations and implement work plans to improve efficiencies, data management, and overall analytical capabilities, outputs, and literacy of the organization.✔ Provides leadership, technical expertise, and facilitation of project activities. ✔ Responsible for a range of cross-functional activities related to data governance, standardization of reporting, advanced analytics, and applications for overall clinical, operational, financial, and administrative performance improvement.✔ Leads work groups within MedStar Analytics and Technical communities for collaboration of best practices, lessons learned, and knowledge-sharing.

★ Oversaw operations, strategy, product development, marketing, branding, sales, human resources, financing, and creation of company culture.✔ Along with the iQuartic (iQ) Leadership Team defined the company overall strategy from development through launch to scale.✔ Set the mission and vision for the iQ company.✔ Drove the day-to-day operations.✔ Cultivated a high-performing and agile team culture.✔ Aligned resources to achieve key business goals.✔ Attracted, retained, and developed world-class talent.✔ Provided expert guidance to all departments, including operations, sales, product, marketing, and branding.✔ Reported updates to the Group CEO, Board of Directors, and corporate stakeholders regarding progress on strategic goals.✔ Established credibility throughout the customer and partner network.

★ Developed, provided leadership, and executed the Technology Strategy at iQuartic (iQ) to deliver innovative healthcare solutions, risk adjustment computer assisted coding medical, and value-based care initiatives.✔ Led & developed the technology department consisting of Data Scientists / NLP Engineers, DevSecOps Engineers, MLOps Engineers, Fullstack Engineers, and Medical Coders Analysts. ✔ Led & developed program technical solutions/innovations, products, including the design/development of proof-of-concepts and implementation of designed products.✔ Developed & delivered state-of-the-art Healthcare AI / Natural Language Processing (NLP) / Computer Vision (CV) based solutions that enabled Risk Adjustment medical coding automation, advanced analytics, and value-based healthcare. ✔ Aligned the technical direction of the company with the vision of the Group CEO, and provided technical writing in support of new business opportunities.

We believe a hospital’s number one priority is the safety of patients, and that optimal patient care avoids needless and costly challenges. The current fall risk assessment system is flawed, putting patients in danger and costing hospitals billions. And these falls are often avertable. Our goal is to eliminate preventable falls by revolutionizing the way clinicians monitor patient fall risk status.✔ Architecting, developing, and overseeing the machine learning model to analyze the patient data, predict Inpatient Fall Risks, and provide specific actionable care plans for the nursing staff to manage risks, protect and minimize patient falls; and increase overall healthcare systems' ROI.✔ Sub-Investigator on the Inpatient Falls study working with the Institutional Review Boards (IRB) to extract datasets from the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system and database in a safe way.

Falls Church, Virginia, Us

★ Responsible for directing operations for the wide range of services Inova Translational Medicine Institute (ITMI) provides to our customers, as well as helping ITMI and our Chief Data Officer (CDO) with the future work strategic planning.✔ Leading & developing a team that delivers state-of-the-art services within the three pillars: IT Infrastructure & Operations, Data Management & Analytics, and Applications & Tools in hybrid on-prem and cloud environments.✔ Leading the overall planning, development, and implementation of research computing technologies & services to address the needs of researchers, faculty, and staff.-> The research computing environment encompasses, among others, high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, big data analytics architectures (Hadoop / Spark), AWS & Azure cloud services, research networking, data sharing, cohort discovery, research data repositories, data integrations for precision medicine, data collection applications (IE LIMS, EDC, CTMS), identity management. -> The research-oriented systems & services include biobanking, surveying, i2b2, REDCap, sequencing cores, imaging systems, etc.✔ Establishing vision for managing research & clinical data across the enterprise, in close concert with researchers and colleagues.✔ Defining Services portfolios and developing operational excellence around the existing 3 pillars enabling technologies services for precision medicine.✔ Leading the development of the next generation Services portfolios in collaboration with our researchers to leverage sophisticated AI / machine learning based translational medicine services.✔ Leading the development & implementation of the next generation IT network architectures for our partnerships & collaboration initiatives. ✔ Leading the assessment & implementation of tenets identified by the ICPH Informatics Platform to ensure a state-of-the-art, HIPAA-compliant, federated data system that supports the ICPH biomedical research and its clinical data.

• Develop a digital strategy for various federal departments, government agencies, and partners.• Provide consulting, research & turnkey services for secure & resilient cloud, IoT, big data & analytics.• Reseller of Information Technology (IT) products, licenses, solutions, and services.• Drive innovation by combining the best of data science, cloud engineering, open source, DevOps & agile methods.• Developed sentiment analysis & operational intelligence deep learning solutions, using RapidMiner, TensorFlow, MatLab, & Minitab.• Developed enterprise continuous monitoring as a service leveraging GitHub open source community.• Developed adaptive security architecture through continuous monitoring, analytics, and DevSecOps leveraging securing the cloud platform and CI/CD pipeline, as well as securing the services from the cloud (monitoring, logging, alerting, remedy, automation).

★ Responsible for the end-to-end relationship with customers, partners, and business units by proactive engagement and management of the successful delivery of innovative services & solutions for cloud transformation, network monitoring, advanced analytics, and automation, using Agile & DevOps methodologies.✔ Led and coached team members of data scientists, developers, and business analysts to build predictive models.✔ Influenced our big data strategy & roadmap in alignment with the Business Units visions and business goals.✔ Made strategic recommendations to executives regarding data science trends. Established business processes and governance that increased our operational intelligence department efficiency.✔ Established recurrent cadence (weekly, monthly, quarterly) with each assigned business line, to review executive dashboards, Key Risk Indicators (KRI’s) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).✔ Created and managed KRIs, KPIs and SLAs for CI/CD & DevSecOps delivery, Service Fulfillment, & Operational Cost.✔ Established lead & lag performance metrics that reduced project delivery time by 20%.✔ Led the devops of an ML based predictive maintenance netops solution to reduce opex and churn leveraging real-time and batch analytics.✔ Led the development of our big data analytics portfolio encompassing Data dictionary and Data lookups.✔ Standardized network operations self-service reporting based on Perceptual Edge visualization concepts.✔ Managed PoCs projects to evaluate analytics solutions such as Teradata, TensorFlow, and SAS.✔ Led Hyperscale HDS8000 Data Center development & delivery, Cloud SDN orchestration, NFV, and automation.✔ Drove the development of Virtual Server On Demand (IaaS/PaaS), based on RedHat OpenStack & VMWare ESXI.✔ Assessed configuration management tools (Chef & Ansible), monitoring tools (Nagios & Splunk) through PoCs.✔ Managed SLAs for platform performance (speed, accuracy), reliability (uptime 99.999%), and resiliency (HA).

★ In a client-focused role, oversaw the entire Consulting & Systems Integration [CSI] business portfolio P&L, with an operating budget of $16.1M, operations, business development and sales support towards our customer.✔ During pre-sales phase, supported proposal development, identified, and closed ICT/CSI sales opportunities.✔ During the post-sales phase, drove flawless execution of solutions and services won during the proposal cycle.✔ Led a matrix organization with 11 IT/SI Program Directors and more than 150 team members.✔ Grew the CSI Services by 25% to $61M business with new streams revenues and solid profitability.✔ Established the CSI / ICT business strategy and increased value based sales by 30%.✔ Led technical solution architecture development, review and approval, solution delivery and contract fulfillment.✔ Partnered with our ICT account managers and customers to understand their unique needs and requirements, translating them along with technology opportunities into detailed technical offering, solutions & proposals.✔ Developed technical presentations, proposals, and carried many customer presentations.✔ Developed, won the First Ericsson Small Cells Indoor Turnkey Services sales, & delivered successfully.✔ Led the development of the VoWiFi solution based on 3pp Kineto client and delivered proof of concept.✔ Identified OSS/BSS sales opportunities, supported proposal, scope & contract development, design & delivery.✔ Led contracts, MSA, SOWs and NDAs negotiations, with our customer and external suppliers.✔ Prepared and responded to RFPs. Prepared TCOs, WLA/SLAs and participated in bid fora.✔ Managed Customer & Partners relationship at C-level & communication towards executives.✔ Acted as owner of customer CSI solution & resolved technical issues and outages as primary escalation interface.✔ Acted as owner of customer support (T1/T2/T3) towards customer, established cadence to review TT/CSR progress.

★ Developed, engaged and led 35 Systems Integrators, Solution Architects and Consultants providing State-Of-The-Art System Integration Services for the Messaging in One (MIO) Solutions within the North American Region markets.✔ Developed technical MIO presentations, proposals, and carried many customer presentations.✔ Led the solution architecture design, developed, and integrated various MIO customer solutions successfully.✔ Achieved highest (EEI 100%) employee engagement, satisfaction and motivation results in our regional dialog survey. ✔ Partnered with Human Resources, developed & implemented 1-1 coaching program for managers, leaders & senior staff, to improve employee engagement and motivation.

★ Developed, inspired, and led 40 Systems Integrators, Solution Architects and Consultants (ARP's) within the TV solutions, Mobile Positioning Systems and Location Based Services for the North American Region markets.✔ Established IPTV regional Center of Excellence / Competence Center.✔ Led the development of innovative rentable IPTV kit for customer trials and POCs.✔ Led the successful prime integration and delivery of the U-Verse IPTV platform solution to our customer.✔ Supported the acquisition and mergers of Casena (middleware) and Mediaroom IPTV platform for VOD and OTT IPTV services.✔ Led the design, development, system integration of our state of the art Mobile Positioning Solutions (MPS) and Location-Based Services (LBS).

★ Establishment of the Content & Media Domain & Business at Global Services Delivery Center in Canada (GSDC-Canada) providing "turn-key" system integration & customer support services, and solutions within IPTV, Service Delivery Platform and Video Gateways.✔ Established the Mobile Service Delivery Platform (MSDP) regional Center of Excellence / Competence Center.✔ Supported the merger & acquisition of Drutt MSDP platform for BSS solutions and content and portal delivery.✔ Staffed, developed, inspired, and led 50 System Integrators and Solution Architects.✔ Led Change Management programs to introduce and enhance Consultive Approach mindset.✔ Implemented Service Delivery Maturity Model (SDMM).✔ Supported Nortel M&A and provided peer-to-peer coaching and mentorship to former Nortel managers and directors during the integration/onboarding process.

OSS / BSS FOA & Deployments Projects for the North American markets and Mobile Soft Switch (MSS) FOA Projects for the Monolithic Architecture in the Americas.

Program & Project Management for the GSM/GPRS software supply for Core Networks (CN), Base Station Sub-systems (BSS), OSS and Intelligent Networks (IN) at the Application Supply Office (ASO) in the Americas.

OSS FOA & Deployment Projects within the North American markets (GSM 1900).

OSS deployments and Customer Training for the American Standards markets in the Americas.

Certificate, Fintech

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Systems Engineering (Machine Learning & Intelligent Decision Support System)

Executive Management Program, Business Program (Sales & Marketing, Finance & Accounting, Strategy, People Management)

M.Sc., Computer Engineering

B.Sc., Computer Engineering