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Cary, Nc, Us

Led the delivery of Zoro's first in-house search engine, migrating from Bloomreach to Elasticsearch in under six months. Partnered with data science and engineering to:- Establish a cross-functional query triage forum.- Align OKRs to search and e-commerce conversion metrics- Incorporate A/B testing and implicit judgments into the evaluation strategy.- Build infrastructure for Elasticsearch’s learn-to-rank features.- Work on ETL processes for content ingestion and enrichment.- Manage observability for latency and performance using tools like Datadog.Proficient in Python, pandas, and search metrics, while collaborating with teams using Kibana, BigQuery, MongoDB, and OpenSearch.

Single threaded owner of global analytics dashboards, including automated data pipeline, harmonized metrics and advanced visualization for executive level business and financial reviews. Partnered with product, sales, marketing, UX, data engineering/science, finance and analytics to build connections between business and behavioral data/metrics. Drove delivery of working MVP after design sprint in under three months.Modernized behavioral analytics platform for over 100 products, from customer click data through to KPI metrics on AB testing platform and data visualization.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Spearheaded customer discovery, global strategy and prioritization for search relevance team, achieving historic gains in search relevance metrics two years running. PM/PO for retrieve on search re-platforming team, migrated News from MarkLogic to Solr toward strategic goal of sub second search on 128bn documents and records.Built Product Showcase inventory used by security and privacy teams in OneTrust Assessments.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Fostered team of SMEs responsible for gold training data on AI, machine learning program and NLP vector/semantic search initiative using LLM (Large Language Model) legal BERT. Partnered with six data science agile teams from ideation, through customer discovery, execution and delivery of first conversational search solution for LexisNexis.

Collaborated with data science, data engineering and legal experts to build training data for SVM classifier for UK, US and Australian legal content.Trained Boolean search writers, wrote source specification files and smart indexing rules for a variety of xml content schemas across multiple jurisdictions. Built taxonomies and lexicons for finance and tax products.

Legal taxonomy analyst and boolean search writer. Built taxonomies for Tax, Property, Share Schemes, Environment, Construction and Financial Services.

Law Llb (Hons)

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Metrics and Evaluation, Relevance and Ranking, Content and Query Understanding, and Vectors and Neural Search. Actively participated.

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