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Seattle, Washington, United States

• implemented data/inference pipeline for LLM generated custom ad widget headers for books on Amazon.com (experiments ongoing, patent pending)
• Implemented customer retention based ad cueing strategy for streaming titles, leading to a potential 11% increase in customer ad impressions
• Launched dash boarding tool for cross domain customer journey ML based analytics
• Created cross domain Universal Media Embeddings to identify high potential Literary IP for Video Adaptation (accepted poster Amazon Machine Learning Conference 2022)
• Extended Universal Media Embeddings framework to Podcast cold start recommendations, leading to 6x lift in customer impressions (patent pending)

• Extended customer segmentation to Latin America and provided additional region-specific product functionality
• Leveraged word embeddings to enrich content genre tagging pipeline for downstream models
• Used collaborative filtering approach to generate customer and title embeddings for typing tool
• Partnered with Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Team to build rigorous data pipeline for identifying and tracking casting and staffing diversity goals
• Provided ad-hoc decision support for upstream stakeholders regarding market size, customer interaction KPIs, and other title-level performance metrics

Greater Seattle Area

• Productionized changepoint detector to identify anomalous weight signals for weighted shelves
• Built product embeddings to drive selection expansion decisions
• Leveraged census data to forecast new store format transaction traffic for new Amazon Go locations
• Identified customer segment breakpoints using RFM data
• Provide ad-hoc decision support for store layout and design

Frisco, TX

• Productionized gradient boosted regression model
• Fine-tuned financial forecasts via machine learning techniques
• Clustered transactions data to identify new product offerings and marketing opportunities
• Instructed internal coding practices and statistical methodology deep-dives with project collaborators
• Created interactive KPI dashboards for business stakeholders

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Developed algorithms to prioritize health actions based on ROI
• Cleaned and applied Machine Learning techniques to Social Determinants Data
• Conceptualized user-facing health score paradigm to boost user engagement
• Created reports, dashboards, and workflows to make data more accessible to users and management

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Populate databases and build complex visualizations for Business Intelligence department
• Leverage customer’s databases to make profit-raising workflow recommendations

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Generated production level solutions for various clinical applications
• Learned on the job how to apply Linux, Hadoop and Hbase for enterprise solutions

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Taught student athlete business statistics concepts
• Created interesting, relevant case studies to strengthen student athlete’s understanding

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Mentor to high school and college students with advanced math, computer, and statistics concepts
• Prepared rising high school seniors for standardized college entrance exams (ACT, SAT)

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Responsible for file and data migration to cloud database using Microsoft Access and PowerDMS
• Generated forms in Adobe Acrobat to streamline workflows

Freeport, TX

• Performed and presented technical research relating to commercial plant design
• Provided economic analysis pertaining to research presentation

Kemah, TX

• Completed numerous safety evaluations of commercial plant
• Developed piping models to ensure safe pressures using IP-21 and SINET
• Performed statistical analysis using Microsoft Excel

Master'S Degree, Applied Statistics And Data Analysis, 3.96

Graduate-Level Coursework in Statistics, Computer Science, Econometrics, and Applied Mathematics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Applied Mathematics, 3.96

Minors in Computer Science and Business

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Activities and Societies: Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity

Education record