Microsoft

Serving the Learning and Marketplace organization.

Areas of focus:
Growth and Marketing, Trust and Safety, Video Experiences, Recommendation and Search

Senior Applied Scientist, ML

Data Dam (Formerly CogniTech LLC)

• Led product and business development efforts of an AI-powered, question-answering platform using the latest advances in NLP.

• Identified and developed several use cases in biotech, pharmaceutical, finance and CPG industries. 

• Offered custom analytics, informatics and data science services. Clients included:
- JUUL (Sub-contract)
- CoreBiome (Contract)
- Loop Genomics (Contract)
- Black Onyx Management (Contract)
- Oplytix (Contract)

Co-founder, Product and Business Development

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Analyzed gene variant and clinical data from Genomics England Database to inform rare disease strategy.

Bioinformatician

Near Wellness LLC

• Co-founded an e-commerce business centered around health, nutrition and wellness products.
        - Led a team of 2 for website development, inventory management and online
marketing.
         - Sold the e-commerce store after running it for almost 2 years.

• Secured funding from University of Minnesota and established collaboration with a manufacturer to
create our own line of nutritional products (protein bites).

Founder

Eaton

Led the development of several AI products to support pricing, operations and finance. Examples:

       • Software solution to predict screw-in cartridge valves prices with an average +/- $30 accuracy using latest AI algorithms.
       • Recommender system for product managers to classify unassigned hydraulics parts representing about $120m in annual revenue.
       • Web-application enabling plant engineers to identify cut lengths in coils using constraint based optimization techniques.

Data Scientist, Business Analytics

Diversigen, Inc.

Worked with a talented group of software engineers and data science professionals to develop fast, cost-effective and reliable analytics solutions. Our clients ranged from academic institutes and hospitals to large corporations and startups operating in the diagnostic, healthcare, agriculture, direct-to-consumer and environmental monitoring industries.

Bioinformatician, Data Science

Genentech

Identified commercial problems, conceptualized analytical solutions and lead the development of appropriate software products. Examples: 

          • Design and implementation of marketing mix model to identify key promotional activity drivers of sales for products representing $10 B in revenue.
          • Development of a Natural Language Processing tool for thematic categorization of patient call activity replacing the resource-intensive and error-prone manual process and reducing time from 2 days to about 2 minutes.
          • KPI tracker development in PySpark for longitudinal analysis of renal cancer patients reducing turn around time from 4 months to 1 month.

Manager, Portfolio Analytics (Data Science)

• Led biomarker discovery efforts for respiratory diseases through data science using statistical techniques like clustering, generalized linear and penalized regression models (e.g. lasso/elastic nets).
• Contributed to the testing of a machine-learning based R package to assist in quality control process of targeted mass spectrometry data replacing error-prone manual process.
• Developed an R shiny application to perform statistical analysis and visualization of proteomics data aiding the process of companion diagnostic development.

Computational Biologist (Contractor)

Self Employed

Provide bioinformatics and data science services. Clients include:

• MissionBio: Provided data science support of sequencing data from single cells.

• NuGEN Technologies: Functional testing of data generation pipeline with Python pytest package.

• Cambridge Epigenetix, UK: Configuration of Laboratory Information Management System.

Independent Consultant

Intrexon Corporation

• Led the project management efforts of a web application that allowed users to analyze and visualize DNA sequencing data. Worked closely with stake-holders and developers for the entire software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Contributed to the development a Python API library to interact with a third party Laboratory Information Management System.
• Prototyped a Selenium based web-browser automation testing framework for data generation pipeline.

Application Specialist

Second Genome Inc.

• Led the development, testing and deployment of a data analytics application with a team of 3 using Python, R and Amazon Web Services.
• Led the analyses of DNA sequencing data for a number of commercial and academic studies using R programming language. Statistical methods included classification and regression techniques, dimensionality reduction and linear mixed effects models.

Consultant

Looking to learn, grow and provide value related to tech, AI and data.

Contact me at: info@datadam.io

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