Michael A. Email & Phone Number

Pasadena, California, Us

Scottsdale, Az, Us

As Currency's only data scientist, my responsibilities encompassed developing innovative data science solutions to tackle a range of problems including predicting creditworthiness, default and fraud to drive business value and generating value through data driven solutionsMachine Learning• Deliver a Proof of Concept (quoted externally at $1 + million) to determine creditworthiness using machine learning models in-house using open source software• 50 + auto declined loan applications approved in the span of two months through the assistance of interpretable machine learning models, a diagnostic for Currency's proprietary underwriting engine• Oversaw a 10 - 30 point improvement across various performance metrics (recall, F-1 score, AUC) and for each class of model from initial baseline through better feature engineering, cleansing and hyper parametric optimizationData Science Platform Stability• Build ETL pipelines that converted relational and non-relational raw data into cleansed tabular data and engineered features as input for the ML models• Improve unit test coverage of the data science API platform by 30%Docker and BI• Build a docker image from a base Python alpine image to support Currency's containerized ML platform that exposed a Flask (Python) REST API - a scoring micro-service Data Science Literacy • Evaluate Proof of Concepts across data science platforms, BI Tools, synthetic and payments fraud detection solutions and advise the CTO on their efficacy• Fostered understanding of Data Science through conducting brown bags on the evolution and mechanics of ensemble machine learning models and interpretable machine learning (unboxing the xgboost 'black box')

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Predicted hospital readmissions (critical care) for the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston (MIMIC III Dataset)Extracted, cleaned and transformed the dataset, used feature engineering based on SME advice and recent literature, performed statistical analyses and made predictions using machine learning algorithms such as penalized logistic regression and random forest.Our team's results improved dramatically with new features and employing different algorithms to within 2% of that of researchers in the fields who tackled the same problem with different datasets using Area under the ROC curve as a metric.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Teaching Assistant for Fundamentals of Data Analytics and Discovery Informatics* Organized machine learning tutorials in R, Python & Weka - Topics covered include data analysis and summary statistics, exploratory data visualization, feature or attribute selection, machine learning, parameter tweaking & evaluation metrics.* Explained machine learning and data mining concepts: in the textbook 'Data Mining - Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques' ( by Witten, Frank, Hall & Pal)* Graded assignments, final exam and provide feedback

Los Angeles, California, Us

Obtained data driven analytical insights to inform and support the processes of the data science and engineering teamOptimization of Branded Campaign Videos*Oversaw a project to leverage user behavior trends while watching video content to maximize user retention* Worked in a collaborative team to set up IBM Watson services to aid in product development by creating a data processing pipeline primarily using Python* Produced powerful visualizations and presented results to a mix of technical and non-technical team members and even directly to the CEO

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Provided data driven analytical insights to the production department with the focus of optimizing schedulingStochastic simulation model showed a 151 hr (18%) reduction in time to process a month's schedule of jobsProject: Analysis of Performance Measures and Minimizing Makespan in a Precision Manufactured Aerospace Components Industry

Eskilstuna, Se

Masters Of Business And Science (Mbs), Analytics: Discovery Informatics And Data Sciences

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Project Management

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Industrial Engineering And Management

High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates