Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office

* Manage and improve public and internal data dashboards (PowerBI, Laserfiche).

Data Analyst

Artemoose Games

Artemoose Games is a hobby indie game development partnership. I am involved in activities across the entire operation including managing the formation and maintenance of the LLC, creative design & art, and software development.

Co-creator, lead engineer, and puzzle editor for https://alludle.com

Managing Member

Cornell University

* Developing and improving software for analyzing terrestrial laser scanning data from forests.
* Utilizing Python software, Numpy, Scikit-learn

Senior Programmer and Data Analyst

Climate Drift

Chosen in selective process for first cohort of Climate Drift's Career Accelerator. 

This program helps leaders transition to roles in climate by expanding their knowledge of the various climate solution areas, professional mentorship, networking, and hands-on research projects.

Fellow - Founding Accelerator Member

Embark Veterinary

Scientific Lead over all Scientific Products 
-> Scientific lead (Data Science, Computational Biology, & Bioinformatics) across all scientific products including Ancestry, Relatives, Inbreeding, & Health & Traits.
-> Product owner for Ancestry and Relative Finder products. Accountable for continuous monitoring via data/customer feedback and improvement of these market-leading products serving millions of customers.
-> Data science lead for development and launch of Dog Age Prediction Test. Led team to reduce prediction error nearly 50%. 
-> Hiring, mentorship, and career development for mostly remote team of over 15 computational/data scientists.
-> Developed and maintained relationships with technical leaders at partner organizations.
-> Wrote, co-wrote, or reviewed scientific copy for both media and customer communications.

Director of Research and Development, Scientific Product

Ancestry and population genetics lead
-> Product owner for Ancestry and Relative Finder products. Accountable for continuous monitoring via data/customer feedback and improvement of these market-leading products serving millions of customers.
-> My team helped to scale data pipelines from 100's of thousands to > millions of customers.
-> Improved prediction pipeline automation from 40 -> 95+% in < 1 year.
-> Led implementation of both quantitative and qualitative feedback loops from internal data and customer data.
-> Led patent development of 2 patents.
-> Hired and managed cross-functional team of 10 scientists and engineers.

Principal Scientist

Lead scientists developing ancestry and population genetics products
-> Led the scientific development and statistical validation of the world's first Dog DNA relatives product.
-> Designed python pipelines and compute infrastructure in AWS targeted at understanding the impact of inbreeding depression in canines. 
-> Hands-on algorithm improvements in core Ancestry product.
-> Led recruitment and hiring efforts to double size of science research organization.
-> Customer engagement and outreach through public talks, seminars, and scientific writing.

Senior Scientist

First full time PhD hire in pre-Series A startup
-> Employee #15
-> Translated bespoke scientific scripts (Perl, Bash, R, C++) into integrated python pipeline.
-> Developed coefficient of inbreeding product including software and customer-facing statistics and visualizations.
-> Improved and began automation of Embark's core Ancestry assignment algorithms (tech stack in python, Bash, SQL, and AWS). 
-> Led the recruitment and hiring of 3 new full-time scientists, supervised those scientists. 
-> Led the research and writing of Embark's first research publications.

Research Scientist

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology.
-> Public speaking and science communication - Awarded best podium presentation by the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, frequent guest lecturer in courses in population genetics, human genetics, and nutrition.
-> Scientific writing - Published > 5 research manuscripts
-> Data Engineering -> Conducted large scale simulation study using custom parallel compute infrastructure on HPC cluster, Linux/Bash/Python

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Wisconsin-Madison

PhD Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant and Lecturer in the Departments of Anthropology and Biology.
-> Planning and execution of anthropological/population genomics research integrating 1000 Genomes Project and ancient DNA using randomization methods.
-> Python/Bash
-> Planning and management of course curriculum.
-> Scientific communication to diverse audience of students.
-> Mentorship to undergraduate students.

Graduate Teaching Assistant & Lecturer

Research & Data Science Leader | Tech Generalist & Builder | Climate & Sustainability Advocate | Video Game Developer

14+ years python programming experience.

10+ years in data science, scientific programming, research, and data leadership.
-> Led development and algorithm/AI automation of market leading Dog Ancestry test serving > 2 million customers.
-> Led data strategy for post Series B startup.
-> Built and scaled numerous data-driven products, including the patented and world's 1st Dog DNA Relative Finder.
-> Managed functional team of over 15 data scientists; Co-led cross-functional team of over 30 data scientists, engineers, and product managers.

Now, I am exploring what's next. I'm developing my full-stack software experience, exploring opportunities in climate and sustainability, and working on building out my video game studio to make impactful games.

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