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Wilmington, North Carolina, United States

• Manage a team of six data scientists delivering actionable insights for the bank.
• Implemented agile data science greatly improving planning, prioritization, and transparency.
• Condensed 100+ tableau dashboards into 30 that deliver focused, actionable insights.
• Quantified the value of data science initiatives to ensure projects are prioritized effectively.
• Aligned roadmap with data engineering team to ensure a smooth transition to Databricks.

• Managed a team of three data scientists delivering actionable insights for the deposit org.
• Built an internal python package to standardize connections, perform routine analysis, and standardize machine learning projects. The module is used across multiple teams at the bank.
• Defined and built out deposit data models in DBT. The models are used daily for key reports, dashboards, and machine learning models.
• Automated the loan funding process allowing Live Oak to fund 10x more loans per day. The process funded $985MM of paycheck protection loans.

• Built and deployed an internal website (fastapi backend and react frontend) that identified leads via a high dimensional scikit-learn model. The web platform resulted in $30MM of closed loans.
• Defined and conducted a six month data collection project and built a simple, linear model saving the bank $4MM. The simple model became the backbone of how the bank prices deposits.
• Built out an airflow data pipeline and data warehouse to aggregate legacy data systems. Data is used daily to shape major corporate strategy.

Wilmington, North Carolina Area

• Developed a python package that performed spatiotemporal analysis of the coral reefs. The software and the analyses resulted in two publications.
• Built a convolutional neural network in tensorflow to distinguish healthy coral from dead/diseased coral allowing biologists to easily quantify ecosystem health.

Wilmington, North Carolina Area

• Cleaned and analyzed spatiotemporal beach morphology data in order to understand long term behavior. The analysis resulted in publication.
• Designed, built, and deployed a solar powered, remote camera system using a raspberry pi that reduced hardware costs by 90%. Work was used across multiple students’ theses.

Wilmington, North Carolina Area

Created Khan Academy style videos for the physics department.

Wilmington, NC

• Produced the first time series visualization allowing managers to identify long term trends.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Physical Oceanography

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Physics

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Environmental Science

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