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Austin, Texas, US

• Architected and implemented multiple internal products for Gambit’s consumer intelligence platform including address validation, entity resolution, anomaly detection, data mining, and consumer segmentation powered by a.
• Built and automated data scraping pipelines from heterogeneous data sources to augment Gambit’s consumer intelligence and address verification database (Scrapy and Prefect).
• Led data science consulting projects for external clients to define, design, and develop machine learning products to meet clients’ business needs.
• Led technical business development efforts to engage external consulting clients to define, scope, and execute data science services for multiple six-figure accounts.

Austin, Texas, US

• Led teams of 2-3 data scientists in client engagements to define, prioritize, and build machine learning solutions to meet business needs.
• Lead consultant for fortune 500 video game company client; collaborated with client’s internal analytics team to define and develop analytics solutions to identify and make recommendations on balancing of specific.
• Lead consultant for hedge fund client; delivered analytics and statistical models that leveraged unique datasets from underlying assets tied to publicly traded companies, among which included models capable of.
• Led data science team for same hedge fund in design and implementation of automated analytics pipelines, including ownership over a ground-up system for anomaly detection which was integrated across all data ingestion.

Austin, Texas, US

• Implemented data warehousing solution for ingesting biometric and self-reported wellness data for in-house pilot (PostgreSQL database deployed on GCP) and built Flask web application for visualizing and surfacing.
• Led the design, development, and implementation of real time unsupervised anomaly detection models in a streaming pipeline and deployed on GCP.
• Led data science team in collaborating with several different groups (UI/UX, Product, Software, Hardware, R&D) to define, scope, implement, and ultimately deliver analytics and modeling requirements.
• Collaborated with UI/UX designers in developing data visualization strategies for communicating streaming sensor data to end users, including building POC Dash web applications using Python.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Worked as a consultant for Ovation.io; a provider of cloud-based LIMS and commercial platform for specialized diagnostic labs.
• Implemented logistic regression models in python using patient genotype features and clinic information to identify patients at risk for opioid dependence.

Austin, TX, US

• Taught undergraduate biology, facilitating supplementary teaching sessions outside of normal lecture to help improve students’ understanding of course material
• Managed up to 8 undergraduate teaching assistants, coordinating meetings and schedules to help improve their teaching abilities.

Austin, TX, US

• Genetically engineered rationally designed viral attenuations in bacteriophage T7.
• Analyzed hundreds of GB of RNA-seq data using R and Python.
• Evaluated differential gene expression using statistical approaches in R to demonstrate that viral growth was significantly and stably reduced at the genetic and phenotypic levels.
• Developed a series of differential equations to simulate population-level dynamics of transmissible vaccines in Mathematica using bacteria and bacteriophage in both natural and engineered systems. Demonstrated their.
• Identified and demonstrated the use of viral enzymes as effective antibiotic agents using an in vivo mouse model, providing a potential alternative antibiotic treatment strategy.

Austin, TX, US

• Implemented an antiviral strategy using chemical mutagens to induce lethal mutagenesis. Demonstrated the use of elevated mutation rates in vivo as an effective antiviral strategy.
• Evaluated the risks of failed lethal mutagenesis in viruses through long-term evolution experiments. Highlighted their increased adaptive ability in response to antiviral treatments.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Cell And Molecular Biology

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biochemistry