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Birmingham, Al, Us

Ottawa, On, Ca

- Designed paradigms and tooling for Shop Org on top of Shopify's new data platform. Led migration for Shop Org to the new data tech stack (dbt, Pyspark, Bigquery, Airflow, GCP), educating 100s and overseeing migration of 1000s of jobs.- Led systems design on Shop Cash Offers’ targeting architecture, including eligibility and relevancy components. Led construction of eligibility components, combining data across multiple systems in real time.- Defined, explored, adjusted, and monitored merchant eligibility rules for the Shop app. Drove ~1% increase GMV in 1 month, added hundreds of thousands of shops to our platform, and removed ~200k fraudulent/low quality merchants.- Architecture visioning and execution to make merchant and product eligibility more understandable, more actionable, and more responsive.- Supported the Shop Cash product, finance, and data science teams via foundational data modeling, reporting, and system understanding. Including building key dashboards for Shop Cash Offers launch, consumption modeling of Shop Cash for finance, and internal data models.- Built dashboards and tools to identify merchants who are fraudulent on the Shop app - led to the discovery of new fraud patterns and signals unknown to Shopify.

Ottawa, On, Ca

- Defined desired outcomes, technical architecture, and constructed streaming (Apache Flink in Scala) and batch (PySpark, DBT) pipelines to support merchant facing and internal analytics - Educated and documented theory and instructions for building merchant facing datasets for OLAP via streaming or batch pipelines- Led data archeology to understand and interact with the merchant eligibility and product eligibility pipelines

Birmingham, Al, Us

- Led thought leadership and strategic vision for intelligent supply, demand, and order offering- Built classifiers, optimizations, and heuristics contained within a microservice to drive effective marketplace clearing - Educated employees company-wide on working with data, models, and machine learning; provided frameworks and perspective for Data Scientists and Non-Data Scientists to work together successfully- Designed new shopper metrics; motivated shoppers with context-aware and nuanced metrics to ensure shopper motivators are aligned with Shipt’s goals- Constructed system to monitor and alert for performance and behavior of Out-of-Stock models- Designed and engineered templated Docker build system driven by yaml files; allows data scientists and analysts to deploy to production without knowledge of Docker, AWS, or Airflow

Birmingham, Al, Us

- Predicted Out-of-Stock products in real time using Xgboost and system to generate and serve predictions; 85% of positive predictions are truly out-of-stock and capture up to 20% of all user's out-of-stock purchases- Engineered system for generating smart product substitution models (e.g. Cheddar Doritos could be subbed for Store Brand Cheddar Tortilla Chips)- Crafted methods of measuring unconstrained order demand; tied to shopper hiring targets to provide guidance during Coronavirus crisis and beyond- Developed and maintained internal tools packages; instructed and educated analysts and scientists in their use - Built tooling and automation to transition production jobs to Airflow from aws-specific infrastructure

Birmingham, Al, Us

- Acquired by Target for 550M in December 2017- Constructed membership lifetime value model that was instrumental in company acquisition; designed and generated member and shopper volume reports - Modeled member churn (Random Survival Forest) to identify subscription churn risks and enable early intervention- Inferred membership statuses and history from intermittent data signals; constructed etl pipeline to provide data broadly- Solved cold-start problem for search at new retail partners with NLP and custom clustering algorithm; built tooling, system, and educational materials for quick future implementations- Designed, built, and maintained internal data science tools packages (R and Python)- Devops jack-of-all-trades for data science (dba-ing, docker, CI, automation)- Onboarded new data science team members; documented systems and setup for new employees, served on interview panels broadly across technology department

Charlottesville, Va, Us

- Develop methodologies and tools for applying topic models (statistical models for processing text) to summarize and contextualize unread documents and identify documents useful for solving problems- Research methods to identify strong analysis and systems thinking within text using topic models- Extract knowledge and insights from topic model output; analyze trends and patterns through time- Develop methods of clustering documents, driven by an analyst’s desires and goals

Charlottesville, Va, Us

Classes: Introduction to Engineering (undergraduate), Introduction to Systems Engineering (undergraduate), Introduction to Systems Engineering (accelerated master's, professional), Introduction to Systems Engineering (graduate)- Instructed ~40 students in woodworking skills and assisted with construction in their semester-long engineering design project for Introduction to Engineering- Taught systems thinking and presentation skills and challenged students to identify trade-offs for Intro. to Systems Engineering (~130 undergraduate, ~25 graduate, or ~20 working professional students) - Tutored students in weekly office hour sessions, graded papers, fielded students’ emails

Denver, Co, Us

- Designed innovative software via VBA within Excel interface to perform algorithmic calculations and streamline inventory reporting and management structure - Enabled use of inventory days metric for decisions; increased calculation accuracy from ~70% to 100%- Simplified annual planning process by saving ~1000+ man-hours annually- Trained employees and distributed software worldwide (~20 brands, ~35 employees in ~10 countries)- Implemented automated reports to generate quick-turn analysis for supply chain leadership

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

- Reconciled and audited inventory counts between sales floor and computer system - Greeted and helped Target guests

Denver, Co, Us

- Developed VBA functions to streamline inventory reporting by automating inventory days calculation- Audited inventory reporting worldwide and discovered significant inconsistencies in calculation procedures between brands- Repaired and prepared ~5 reusable Excel reports for upper management- Created business policy document for Global Optimized Supply business model

Master’S Degree, Systems And Information Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Mathematics

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