Steve Wald, Phd Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Greater Seattle Area

Gates Foundation, Knowledge Management & Data Science (April 2021 - Oct 2022; April 2024 - pres.) -- Delivers data engineering, modeling, analysis, and visualization solutions to support specialist teams that allocate funds to the Foundation's humanitarian initiatives and programs. Key technologies: Databricks, PySpark, Python, R, SQL, Power BI.Microsoft, Global Demand Center (July 2019 - March 2021; October 2022 - April 2024) -- Served as technical delivery lead for a team of four analysts in Signal Flow Health Operational Reporting. Responsible for client deliverables and analyst training in end-to-end data modeling techniques that I pioneered within the signal-flow health domain. Key technologies: PySpark, Power BI, and Azure Synapse.

Greater Seattle Area

(Contracted to Accenture) Developed a Python package for ML-assisted classification of HR data sets that was deployed within a major software platform for organizational design. The feature provided a labor-saving effect for consultant field teams, reducing human effort from weeks to hours in preparing HR data for analysis.

Greater Seattle Area

Created a computational back end to automate dynamic pricing for a Seattle-based tour bus rental company. |•| Developed and implemented in Python and Power BI a suite of time-series analysis and custom performance-ranking tools for a proprietary BI platform serving Washington state’s 502 cannabis industry. |•| Team First Prize: “Hack the Now and Next: The Future of Retail” (Globant, Seattle) for Measureyes, a concept for translating A/B testing methods for digital media into the physical environment of store-front displays (August 25, 2018)

Greater Seattle Area

Implemented Pep Talk, an NLP/recommender-based search engine. The system enables users to query the Lose It!(TM) online weight-management forum archives by entering journal entries in plain speech. It then returns posts and threads that most closely echo the user's concerns and prose style.

Greater Seattle Area

Seattle, Wa

Built and managed relationships with Puget Sound business leaders, philanthropists and UW alumni to secure over $1M/year in gifts for support of UW Engineering. |•| Served as a key internal strategist for the advancement of educational ventures in Engineering & Health Technology. |•| Conference Presentation: "Cacophony to Symphony: Fundraising for Multi-Unit Initiatives," Engineering Development Forum, Chicago, IL, June 22, 2016

Madison, Wisconsin

Managed a client portfolio of 120+ individuals, developing and stewarding major-gifts for a variety of campus units and initiatives. |•| Led multi-disciplinary teams of colleagues and campus partners in complex and sensitive assignments involving some of the university's top-priority donors.

Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina

Worked in multi-disciplinary teams to design and develop connecting, sealing and protecting equipment for worldwide markets in outdoor telephony. |•| Listed as co-inventor on two U.S. utility patents (1995, 1996).

Certificate, Data Science

Certificate, Business Adminstration

Activities and Societies: Co-authored business plan for Farmstand Local Foods, LLC (www.farmstandlocalfoods.com).

Phd, History Of Science

Activities and Societies:• Dissertation: "Minds Divided: Science, Spirituality, and the Split Brain in American Thought" • National.

Mts, History Of American Religion & Protestant Reformation

Ba, Product Design

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi, Life Member