Teneika Askew

Analytics Product Manager | AI/ML | Social Entrepreneur | Data Scientist | Mentor | Big 4 | DS4A | Spartan Racer

Teneika Askew is an Analytics Leader with more than 10 years of experience providing analytics, business process improvement and consulting services. She specializes in data analyses around financial, talent and operational data and driving workforce strategies for Fortune 500 companies.

Teneika uses Power BI, Tableau, SQL and Python to create 100% data-driven, innovative insights using organizational data. She also trains colleagues and the communities she serves with open data made available through the DATA Act.

Teneika also has extensive experience with business analysis for commercial, not for profit, and governmental entities. Her strengths are in performing complex analyses to identify and understand processes, gaps and transactions to answer difficult to solve problems.

Awards: Globant US Digital Leader. Women of Color in STEM - Technology All Star Award. Values in Practice. Applaud Awards (3X). Performance and Team Awards (6X). She Rocks the World, Fearless Leader. Diversity & Inclusion Driver Award. Grace Hopper Women of Color in Tech Scholar. People Analytics World Speaker. Society of Women Engineers Speaker. Distinguished Scholar and Honors level in Data Science for All fellowship(s). Top Teaching Assistant.

Certifications: Microsoft Data Analyst, Certified Scrum Master, Tableau Desktop Specialist, AWS Solution Architect. COBIT 5, ITIL, Agile Certified Practitioner and Microsoft Certified Trainer

Fellowships: Data Science for All - Empowerment and Data Science for All - Women's Summit

Recognized as US Digital Leader by Globant in the annual edition of the Globant Awards - Women that Build,  a global recognition that seeks to change the reality of the industry and reduce the gender gap, highlighting professionals who inspire, who build, who lead and help create change. 
http://womenawards.globant.com/3335/Teneika-Askew
This award recognizes innovative women who are leaders in their organizations and who have been impacting change in the IT industry for at least 10 years.

Featured in Business Insider, Tech Crunch and eFinancial.

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Group Product Director - Data Science & Analytics Enablement

The consultant has become the client! I've returned as Product Manager and leader in the Navy's first data focused consulting division, Data and Digital Transformation. I will be bringing my entrepreneurial spirt to build, launch and direct the Data Science as a Service and Analytics Enablement portfolio of products and services.

Stack: Databricks, AWS

I'll be hiring for Data Scientists pretty soon and I'm really interested in meeting people who enjoy building, while learning. We have a lot of high impact mission work that I find pretty cool in the intersection of Cyber and AI.

We're working on Cloud Automation, lots of big data movement between systems and Machine Learning models that can scale 2-3x almost monthly.

Our tech stack is VS Code, GitLab and AWS driven right now and could change. AWS specifically:
☁️ Lambda Functions
☁️ Glue
☁️ Athena
☁️ API Gateway
☁️ Eventbridge
☁️ Sagemaker
☁️ Bedrock

Not completely exhaustive of everything but these are the day to day services. If you've built projects in Python, share links to your portfolio and I'll check them out! If you've also worked on varying classification and regression models let me know. There's a lot of flexibility here if you haven't, your skills are always transferable from one area of data science and engineering to the other. Don't be afraid to tell your story!

💫Bonus if you have at least a Secret level clearance.
💫Bonus if you have a Security+ and any other cloud, AI or data certs!

If you're interested, send me a message, if you're not connected send a connection request with a note so I can message you back. 

✋🏾No C2C, external recruiters.

Booz Allen Hamilton

I have been promoted through roles of increasing accountability and leadership scope. As a Sr. Lead Scientist, I have overseen the AI Analytics Team with staff based across the U.S. I have spearheaded dozens of statistical and machine learning initiatives across the U.S. government, working with stakeholders in the Army, Navy, National Guard, and NASA markets, as well as NATO. I was selected to lead the Digital Battlespace Account’s Engineering Data Science sub-team in 2022, the newest account created to consolidate clients with heavy emphasis on cloud, operating at the edge (battlefield). I was first promoted to Lead Associate in 2017 to take over a struggling and understaffed team of 3 data scientists aligned to the Army market in Norfolk VA. During this initiative, I overcame challenges and grew the team to its current 36 staff under the Digital Battlespace Account (DBP). I also continuously network with other markets, NASA, NATO, Navy, Air Force, and Army, outside of assigned geography, to understand the pipeline, enabling successful future pitches based on staffing levels and skillsets. 

Full project list available upon request.

Sr. Lead Scientist

Project/Engagement: NATO AI FELIX (Jan 2019 - Dec 2021 & (Dec 2022 - Present) 

Highlights:
-Tapped to assume project leadership role following 100% turnover in Dec 2022. Stepped in and quickly executed a successful turnaround strategy, recruiting staff and working with the client to maintain and renew the contract. Within 6 months, received  “letter of gratitude” for the work performed to date and a conversation has been initiated around securing a multi-year effort to use Large Language Models to build NATO an AI Assistant.

-Secured initial 2019 pilot contract at $150K and helped build the business case for a $1.5M annual contract. Built a solution that processed critical time sensitive reports—40-50 per staffer per day per command—to extract meta data, identify taskers, and create a searchable database, providing military leadership the most accurate information available at the time of decision.

•	Engaged as a senior subject matter expert (SME) to work with NASA engineers in the design of a mathematically defendable way of conducting preventative maintenance. Personally, designed the algorithmic approach to prioritize all maintenance backlog to mitigate the risk of facility down time during a critical test, presenting solutions aligned with existing NASA budgets, to steer multimillion dollar investments. Solution became the model for how to conduct preventative maintenance at NASA. 
•	Solution served as the foundation for NASA Langley's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate to evaluate how to invest remaining end of fiscal year funding.
•	Reduced $400M in backlogged maintenance projects down to $300M in two years, helping increase funding for the Agency through automation.

Project/Engagement: NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU
Highlights:
-Engaged by the Vice Chief of the National Guard, a three star general, to create a dashboard displaying critical Guard personnel metrics to inform the Commanders decision making. Authored original pitch, securing $1.5M contract and scaling to $2.5M based on additional needs, while assuming direct leadership of the initiative. 

-Automated key metrics into a single interactive app to allow the Vice Chief to have access to up to date information and make well informed decisions significantly faster. 

-Led significant change management to turnaround project, now expected to renew for an additional $3M+ extension. 

-Collaborated with numerous 1 and 2-star generals as well as the Vice Chief.

ARMY MANPOWER MODELING (2015 – 2020) 
Installation Management Command (IMCOM) Manpower Requirements Modeling Lead & Tank Automotive Command (TACOM) Manpower Requirements Modeling Lead

Lead Data Scientist

NASA LARC OCIO PROJECT LEAD (2013 – 2015)
Big Data Analytics and Machine Intelligence Capability Development Lead

Data Scientist Lead

MILITARY EXPERIMENTATION (2010 – 2013) 
Naval Warfare Development Command (NWDC) Analysis Lead & United States Joint Forces Command J9 Analyst

Lead Analyst

Senior Director with a passion for Analytics and Data Science, currently overseeing the Digital Battlespace (DBP) Account Data Science Team for Booz Allen, leading cross-functional staff based across the United States. Leverage deep analytical, technical problem solving, and an understanding of statistics to support clients across the U.S. government—Army, Navy, and NASA—and NATO. Leverage AI and Machine Learning to solve client problems through automation, reusing existing capabilities in new and novel ways. Accomplished mentor and coach, often tapped to rescue projects, earning a reputation for leading turnarounds and high risk projects that deliver new, multimillion-dollar future revenue.
-  Experience creating strategic vision and long-term roadmaps. 
-  15+ years of work experience with Analytics and data science projects, including big data technologies.
-   Balanced success with highly technical projects and business projects requiring a client-facing voice.
-   Strategic ability to develop and maintain relationships, integrating with people at all hierarchical levels.
-   Strong leadership abilities combined with experience in project and team management to complement peers and produce the strongest possible the AI Analytics Team.

Core Competencies 
Business Process Analysis | Data Science & Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Statistical Techniques | Algorithm/Metric Development | AI software integration | Data Visualization & BI Tools | Systems Integration | Project Management | Big Data | Cloud Platforms | Cross-Functional Collaboration | Strategy & Direction | Data Quality | Process Improvement | Six Sigma Black Belt

Full Project List Available Upon Request

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