Fintech venture launched with the backing of Ribbit Capital (early investor in Affirm, Robinhood, Brex, Coinbase) & Walmart. A financial services super app that allows consumers to manage their financial lives in one place.

Head the credit function, including leading credit policy development, loan product pricing and management, portfolio risk and capital returns.Climb provides financing to students who are looking to obtain outcomes-focused career advancing skills.

1. Develop & manage OppLoan's credit strategy, performance and growth.2. Provide expertise across teams on analytic methodologies.3. Build, mentor & manage a team of data scientists & business analysts.

Founded in 2012, OppLoans is one of the highest-rated online lenders and service providers in the industry, offering or facilitating emergency bridge financing to non-prime borrowers in a rapidly growing number of states. With fast funding, significantly lower rates, total transparency, and unmatched customer service, OppLoans provides non-prime borrowers a reliable source of short-term funding. OppLoans has grown 1,500 percent over the last three years, with 2018 marking the third year in a row we made the Inc. 500.

Avant is an online lending platform that is changing the way consumers obtain credit by lowering the costs and barriers of borrowing. Utilizing big data and machine-learning algorithms, the company offers a unique and highly customized approach to streamlined credit options. At its core, Avant is a tech company that is dedicated to creating innovative and practical financial products for all consumers. After securing more than $2 billion in funding, Avant was the most funded company in Chicago in 2014. More than 220,000 loans have been issued through the Avant website. Avant has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Fortune, Bloomberg and Crain’s Chicago Business. Avant was named to Forbes America's Most Promising Companies list for 2015 as well as Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups list for 2015. Loans through Avant are available in 46 U.S. states and in the United Kingdom. Find out more at www.avant.com.Responsible for identifying and developing new data sources, discover variables, manage usage of existing data sources in credit risk, fraud, response and other customer decisioning models and strategies across lending products and geographies.

Focused on proving the value of story telling with data. I build relationships and empower lines of business to become self-sufficient and succeed in accessing vast amounts of data, deriving insights and collaborating on data driven strategies. About ClearStory Data: A Gartner Cool Vendor in Big Data for 2014, ClearStory Data is bringing next-generation Data Intelligence to everyone, in order to accelerate the way businesses get answers across any number of data sources. By dramatically simplifying data access to internal and external sources, harmonizing disparate data on-the-fly, and enabling fast, collaborative exploration, ClearStory Data’s end-to-end solution includes an integrated platform and incredibly simple user application. The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, DAG Ventures, Google Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB).

Sales support for financial services risk management clients in the areas of general predictive analytics services and tools, model development, model governance and optimization. Responsibilities include engaging clients to identify solution mix, crafting and delivering POCs, RFx responses and pricing support.

Helping clients identify and derive value from analytic capabilities and solutions.

Created analytic solutions for retailers and manufacturers to help create a holistic view of their shoppers and their spending across banners and categories. Responsibilities included designing and developing repeatable analytic end to end solutions to execute campaigns: data identification, variable library creation, modeling, scoring and campaign list selection.

As part of the research group, I contribute to the identification, research and development of analytical solutions using existing methodology, components and capabilities and apply to various business problems. Responsibilities include managing version 0 projects, liaison with product management and collaborate with sales to engage clients in research initiatives.

Working on market driven research, creating prototype industry solutions to bring analytics and scores into new markets.

Research and development of statistical platform tools, real-time and adaptive analytical capabilities, including algorithms, system architecture and business development.

Managed database operations for handling patent related data for FoundationIP - a subsidiary of a patent law firm.

Developed software for extracting, processing and storing data from utility (electricity) website containing transmission and consumption data.