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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

- Acquired, cleaned, pre-processed, and analyzed real-world datasets from multiple industries and developed predictive models. Evaluated model performance through the use of cross-validation, splitting data into training and test sets, confusion matrices, and other metrics.- Summarized data science projects and communicated results to technical and lay audiences through presentations, written reports, and visualizations.Project: Obtained 10k posts from two subreddits through web scraping using Pushshift’s API for natural language processing, trained various classification models with a count vectorizer in search of the best estimator for classifying text between the subreddits. Capstone Project: Using survey data from NHANES, multiple machine learning models were evaluated on their performance for detecting diabetes using recall, accuracy, and AUC metrics. The information gained from the models was used to identify the key variables within respondent data that contributed to the detection of at-risk individuals. These features were used to build a health app that recommends interventions.

Malden, Massachusetts, United States

- Resolved 30-50 claim rejections daily resulting in prescription authorization & efficient patient care.- Compounded prescribed oral and dermatological products by calculating, and mixing drugs and other required ingredients. Ensured proper storage of vaccines, and other medicines to prevent deterioration.- Reviewed patient records regularly to ensure appropriate dosing, controlled substance monitoring, and merged duplicate records.- Performed stock replenishment and quality checks including disposal of expired medication to maintain streamlined inventory and low overhead.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

- Conducted sales, spending, and inventory data analysis using Excel pivot tables. Pitched solutions through reports and visuals to management for improving inventory turnover. - Provided drug information to medical professionals and hospital managers on pharmaceutical products.- Researched markets and compiled reports that were used for price negotiations with suppliers.

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