Ryan Leonard Email & Phone Number

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Discovered process inefficiencies causing missed client SLAs. Optimized multiple ETL pipelines resulting in a 90% reduction in the predictive analytics end-to-end process.
• Team lead for the development of a risk adjusted deep learning model using a generative adversarial network to attempt to learn to classify a member’s missed diagnosis.
• Engineered web application to monitor and detect bottlenecks in ETL pipelines to provide visibility for downstream projects.

Nashville, Tennessee, US

• Advanced the efficiency and effectiveness of model algorithms and surrounding architecture through the development of a more abstract framework that is applied to all modeling objectives.
• Interacted daily with operational teams to ensure effective integration of analytics and predictive models into production systems.

Nashville, Tennessee, US

• Increased model visibility through the creation of a process to capture feature importance of any model type; model agnostic permutation feature importance, or MapFi allowed for BI dashboards to visualize the driving.

• Involved in all aspects from planning to deployment of multiple marketing bots for clients in the pharmaceutical industry using UiPath’s RPA framework
• Developed a reusable component library to ensure code consistency, ease of implementation and keep projects on time and within budget

• Designed recognition models for both handwritten and text-based characters capable of continuous learning using deep neural networks leveraging both Keras and TensorFlow machine learning frameworks coded in Python
• Trained the character recognition models on a GPU based system using the largest known dataset available from the National Institute of Standards and Testing containing 800,000 samples of handwritten digits and.
• Organized multiple models into committees where the best results are selected based on confidence levels
• Developed post-recognition routines to enhance accuracy (Previous / Next Letter Confidence Thresholding, Word-Level Likelihood Analysis and Field Level Business Logic)
• Designed and developed an AI enhanced framework for reading, importing and reconciling data on semi-structured and unstructured PDF business documents such as accounts payable invoices, purchase orders, shipping.

London, England, GB

• Developed applications to help clients automate historically manual tasks as a lead application developer on the National Data Solutions initiative
• Migrated multiple applications back-end databases from Microsoft Access to SQL Server
• Utilized MVVM approach to design and create customer engaging WPF applications

London, England, GB

• Project managed a terminated vested employee bulk lump sum which eliminated over $130 million in pension liability.
• Performed benefit calculations for participants in a defined benefit plan.
• Worked on various forms for government compliance, including Form 5500, Annual Funding Reports, PPA Election Forms and Funding Target Certifications.
• Assisted in the development of a benefit calculator for purposes of a plan termination.

Annville, PA, US

• Played D3 Men's Lacrosse for 2 years.
• Studied for, and passed, two actuarial exams.
• Tutored students in Economics and Finance.

London, England, GB

London, England, GB

• Performed benefit calculations for participants in pension plans.
• Designed and assembled a database reconciling over 10 years of employee contributions in order calculate present value of accrued FICA tax allocation.
• Assisted lead actuarial consultants in a multi-million dollar pension plan termination.
• Expanded Excel and VBA knowledge through multiple benchmarking projects for clients.

Bachelor'S Degree, Actuarial Science

General Education