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Chicago, Il, Us

Working directly with the Owner and the Board of Directors, contributing valuable insights to shape the growth trajectory of the company. By analyzing the financial services landscape, provided a comprehensive perspective on the strategies employed by other industry leaders. Outlined a compelling 1-3 year roadmap encompassing key technologies, automation solutions, and innovative services that are crucial to maintaining a competitive edge in the dynamic marketplace.

Menlo Park, California, Us

Hired to expand the Emerging Technology Group, recruit and develop new talent, and grow the business organically, through existing and new clientele. Drive the business as an industry leader in AI, machine learning, IoT, quantum computing, and other emerging technologies. Currently advancing projects in NLP (natural language processing), roadmapping and progressing customer journeys, AI, and Model ops implementations.

Paris, France, Fr

Lead tactical and operational initiatives in the development, implementation, and maintenance of various information technology and system functions for the technology services and consulting company. Oversee 35-member onshore/offshore, multifaceted, innovation, and data science team that make up the Data Science COE. Designated as engagement manager and sales lead for all financial aspects of a single $12.5M project and $19.5M over four projects. Collaborate with other teams to educate and promote data science. Clients included KPMG and Insurance Auto Auction.✔ IMPACT: Created and evangelized numerous go-to-market products, innovations, and service offerings, spearheading proposals, writing statements of work, and defining project skills, financials, and governance. Drove sales for new and existing projects, leading the entire solution lifecycle from inception to implementation for the $12.5M, four-year contract for the IAA data science COE. Drove strategic technology developments from conceptualization to execution, enabling business to deliver upon mission and purpose. Created multiple go-to-market strategies within the data science, AI, and machine learning realms, collaborating with multiple teams, and identifying opportunities for new and existing clients.

Countryside, Illinois, Us

CEO / President Established and expanded a 3 million dollar a year boutique consultancy. Oversaw and organized all sales and marketing initiatives. Supervised the delivery of multiple concurrent projects, while overseeing back office administration and finances.Major Accomplishments:Client Rural Crop Insurance Service• Worked with the CIO to evaluate the effectiveness and application of a Drone & Satellite Automated Crop Inspection• Used AI and ML to automate and improve the accuracy of the extent of the crop damage• 15-20% improvement in claim accuracy due to AI automated crop damage inspectionsClient: Allstate Insurance • Credited for a patented co-author process that identify mold, water, or other coloration damage to a wall, as well as accurately measure the size of the damage from any image• Increased level measurement accuracy of damaged area by as much as 25%• Estimated 1.5 million saved because of the automation and improved accuracyClient: Evine/ShopNBC• Applied ML to the end-to-end customer journey• Results: top 34 products, which drove a 1.4 percent increase in salesClient: McDonald’s Corporation• Recognized as a founders of Prometheus, the company’s AI Mixed Marketing Analyses (MMA) tool• Millions in marketing savings through a network of predictive models and optimizationsClient: Kraft Foods• Credited as patent co-author and solutions architect for an AI/ML Offer, Content, and Social Optimization platform• Executed the successful rollout of solution brands: Kool-Aid, Crystal Light, Crystal Light Liquid, and Stove Top Stuffing.Client: Guggenheim Partners • Established the PMO (Project Management Office) for the operations department, which oversaw the delivery of more than 50 concurrent projects.• Recognized as owner of document management repositories, business process workflows, and security controls for the Operations’ internal information portal. • 35% increase in productivity through back office automation

Chicago, Il, Us

As the Director at Koowie, I was responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with key marketing vendors that provided press release and email marketing services, and promotional marketing items. I was responsible for creating all press releases, weekly newsletters and all marketing campaigns. The net marketing effect increased total membership by 300% in 4 months and 800% in 6 months.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Leveraging a unique business process and data mining technology, co-founded a database marketing company. Worked closely with clients during pre-integration, integration and post-integration phases of projects. This made for a smooth transition and short ramp up times. Worked closely with the president to generate new business through meetings, technology demonstrations and trade show events. Worked closely with the data analysis team to build custom analytical models. Developed and executed a plan to streamline the delivery and deployment of the models to the clients. Designed, managed, and built the corporate and client support website.

Created and managed the company’s technical due diligence report. Provided this important document to attract new investors and prospective clients, among many uses. Organized and managed the teams that created all product and company vision demos. Initiated partnerships with eDigital and SonicBlue to move the FullAudio experience to portable devices. Maintained and expanded the competitive analysis of music companies and how they were positioning similar products and services. Worked with a team to generate market research of brand name products/companies that could benefit by partnering with FullAudio.

Worked directly with the VP of Development to design the company’s Enterprise Data Mining suite of products, which included standard data mining tools and scalable, real-time scoring and personalization engines. Worked with the CEO to create and implement Magnify’s Data Mining Methodology. Designed the hardware and software architecture for scalable, cluster-based data mining servers. Served as project manager in the production of personalization servers for both Art.com and CoolSavings.com; researched and designed the prototype servers. Worked with a team that designed algorithms/models that detected fraud and attrition for Visa and Allstate. Significantly increased Visa and Allstate’s fraud detection and accurately identified the members who were most likely to attrite. Co-lead a team that designed advanced text-mining algorithms for the Department of Defense (DOD). The text-mining algorithms were built using the latest available research on the topic.

Joined a start-up company as their fifth employee. As the company grew to over 70 employees, I was promoted into multiple management positions and eagerly took on the challenges of each new position. As project manager designed and implemented software solutions for many Fortune 100 & 500 companies. Ultimately, each solution increased corporate organization and efficiency. Incorporating the latest multi-user and multi-tiered technology ensured high volume transactions were captured and processed quickly and accurately. As a classroom instructor, retooled corporate clients to use the latest development tools effectively.

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science