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Chagrin Falls, OH, US

Mayfield Heights, Ohio, United States

Senior leader in the personal lines Acquisition area. Our focus is to apply AI strategies to improve customer quoting experiences and grow the Progressive Insurance market share.

Manager within the Claims Control Analytics organization, leading a large team of analysts and budding data scientists/engineers that partner with Senior leadership, Underwriting, Loss Reserving, Claim Process leadership, and Legal to drive Claims initiatives. We use a wide array of big data platforms to create analyses, reports, and models (financial.

Mayfield Village, OH

As a business developer for Customer Experience organization and member of the management team, our team focused on developing tools or automated processes for the 11k+ CRM contact center representatives and their leadership.- Key efforts included a procedural guideline search engine, implementation of digital marketing offers (home, life, umbrella.

Senior leader for a Medical Software Company, applying AI to imaging and genetic data for clinicians to provide better diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment results

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Data Analytics instructor for Trilogy Education Services through Case Western Reserve University.Taught classes of 25+ adults in topics including:- Data Analysis (Excel, Python, R)- Data Visualization (Tableau, Python, Javascript)- Data Collection (AWS S3, Google API Services)- Machine Learning + Deployment (Python, AWS EC2, Heroku)

Independence, OH

- Developer / DBA for Harley Davidson Dealer Systems, a dealer facing software company owned by HDMC- Part of team to implement the first global data collection framework and customer matching platform for Harley-Davidson, giving the motor company insight into individual dealerships at a transaction level.- Worked with individual dealer owners to create.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

- Developer / Analyst for the commercial compliance division with a focus on insurance agent monitoring tools and state compliance data feeds.- Replaced existing IBM TM1 analytical warehouses with data applications and data mining models (binary/multiclassification) to do what-if analysis on targeted business KPI's.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Software trainer and contract developer for Microsoft Gold partner. Every call in this role was different, where in the same day I might convert data out of a PDF into spreadsheets, fix a database-driven report for a rocket scientist, and create a series of instructional videos on email management best practices.- Curriculum focused on enterprise software.