Hey there, my name's Mark Stephenson, and I'm Founder/CEO of Red Oak Strategic, an Alexandria, VA-based Amazon Web Services Consulting Partner, specializing in data science, data engineering, machine learning/AI, cloud consulting and strategy services. I started the business in 2011, and since then, the company has worked with clients across industries on their data challenges, including financial services, healthcare, public sector, marketing and numerous others. I'm passionate about data science, deriving valuable insights from data and building scalable solutions. I also believe in helping our team grow by supporting their professional and personal development through various training and events. Red Oak Strategic is headquartered in Alexandria, VA and is proud to support numerous local organizations and coding groups, through events at their offices and with their team. Our goal is becoming a top AWS Premier Consulting Partner, and one of the elite data science, machine learning and AI consulting firms in the Washington, DC area. I'm also Co-Founder of Epidaurus Health, Inc., which is a software startup focused on automating and improving the prior authorization process in healthcare. Receiving their first patent in 2022, the company works on an improved data intake process, leveraging blockchain / smart contracts for security and data provenance and introducing machine learning to a complicated, cumbersome prior authorization process.