T. Scott Clendaniel Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Stamford, CT, US

Advises clients in strategic challenges with Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Decision Sciences. Specializes in areas such as:- AI Talent/ AI Organization- Upskilling AI Staff/ AI Literacy- AI Strategy- AI Ethics/ Responsible AI- Measuring AI success- Maximizing AI profitability- Model ensembles- Project management- Simplifying operations.

Philadelphia, PA, US

- Co-Instructor for class on Artificial Intelligence. - Research and develop curriculum.- Deliver to Graduate School of Education- Continuing as a volunteer (until they kick me out!)

Philadelphia, PA, US

The world's first Masters Degree in Education Entrepreneurship, combining the Wharton Business School, the Graduate School of Education, Weitzman School of Design, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science to identify emerging opportunities and create the next generation of high-impact education programs, products, and services.

• Created Data Science/ AI curriculum for Cisco Networking Academy: 3.1 million current students, 190 countries, and 6 languages.
• Developed and delivered the first Data Science curriculum for all of 3M Asia.
• Created the first Artificial Intelligence course for Harvard Innovation Labs' Experfy spin-off.
• Provided consulting and training for clients like AARP, Biogen Pharmaceuticals, IBM, Los Angeles Times, Royal Bank of Canada, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, T. Rowe Price, and Wells Fargo.

Mclean, VA, US

• Founded the Strategic Artificial Intelligence Lab (formally Emerging Technologies AI team)
• Increased VBA Fraud Model Performance by 500% in 8 weeks
• Lifted sales forecasting model accuracy from 85% to over 91%
• Raised chatbot satisfaction levels from 27% to over 70%
• Developed firmwide Introduction to AI training for 10K employees with a 98% approval rate

San Mateo, California, US

• Provided 440% lift in product Cross-Sell performance with breakthrough AI model using champion/ challenger Model Risk Management platform.
• Slashed Feature Engineering timelines by 80% with CN2 rule induction methodology.
• Built and tested almost 300 production-ready models using Python, TensorFlow, SageMaker, and various AWS/ pipelines and processes.
• Designed, authored, and implemented Artificial Intelligence Roadmap for Legg Mason, creating of Strategic Artificial Intelligence Labs.
• Benchmarked AUM performance, revenue growth, and product performance over 800 separate data elements.
• Trained over 150 Legg Mason employees on AI methodology across 3 continents.

New York, NY, US

• Designed, created, and implemented a fraud detection model that captured 40% of all fraud within a 2% turndown threshold, outperforming a custom model created by a third-party consulting firm of experts.
• Developed and executed custom data science training programs for a team of 12 Morgan Stanley employees across two continents.
• Trained 25 professionals on 2 continents in Machine Learning/ Artificial Intelligence.
• Implemented custom Python tool to automate Exploratory Data Analysis for all future modeling efforts.
• Managed a junior executive to become a full Data Scientist in under four months.
• Wrote and executed Request for Proposal for Anomaly Detection for a $40 billion book of business.

• Wide variety of predictive analytics assignments for over 25 clients, including developing almost 100 predictive models for industries such as banking, cellular, healthcare, hospitality, and non-profits.
• Saved St. Jude Children's Research Hospital approximately 45% on mailing costs using an advanced modeling ensemble approach of an initial filter model, a secondary response model, and a final donation model.
• Raised Sheraton Hotels’ response rates by more than 50% for destination promotions using advanced analytics to predict direct mail conversion.
• Built web-based fraud detection models with sub-second decisioning for PayPal, evaluating up to 1 million purchases per day.
• Created and deployed a unique Customer Analysis Protocol for Alltel Cellular’s marketing division, allowing immediate data mining “triage” for the entire marketing staff.
• Chief Data Scientist, Analytics-Edge, 2000 – 2021

Masters Of Education - Med, Education Entrepreneurship

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Administration And Management, General