Military Consulting Solutions

President

• Strategically position digital workforce infrastructure initiatives using Bulls-Eye [ https://www.bullseyeapp.me/ ] , a secure training environment focused on virtual vocational education which creates work (and health) profiles visible at the municipality level, to directly connect to industry.

• Serve as a Bulls-Eye steward with a growing list of public high school, public charter and private high school education client engagements to ensure secure, tailored system implementations.

• Co-manage vendor partnerships (BIS Training Solutions, Garmin Health and IBM) with respect to digital workforce infrastructure solution implementations using the Bulls-Eye platform.

• Develop and implement working scores (akin to credit scores) for 13 to 18 year old students, leading to secure work profiles and individual avatars.

Director, Implementation and Algorithms

Appointed with Combined Insurance (a Chubb company) 

• Educate and protect underinsured clients with industry-leading individual and group supplemental solutions, as well as permanent, term and guaranteed issue insurance solutions.
• Assist clients with creating and implementing personalized plans that uncover financial blind spots, manage risks, account for long-term care needs & minimize income tax exposure.

Insurance Account Executive

BeVera Solutions

• Led efforts which resulted in a 3 year $2,900,000 small business contract to train senior healthcare professionals at The Centers for Disease Control (CDC)in data science methods using R.
• Led business development and planning to expand data science training within federal government and commercial sectors.
• Provided data science consulting services inclusive of statistical forecasting, customer acquisition, segmentation, cross-sell, up-sell, purchase propensity, behavioral scoring, and bad debt predictionsolutions.

Director, Data Science Training and Consulting

Informatica

• Provided pre-sales, technical consulting of world-leading data integration, data quality, and data management software products and solutions

Senior Sales Consultant

SAS Institute, Inc.

• Led consultation, mentoring, SAS programming and knowledge transfer services to external clients on statistical forecasting concepts and problem solving using SAS Forecast Server and SAS Time Series Studio.
• Developed predictive models on financial services Big Data using SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS Enterprise Guide, and SAS High Performance Analytics procedures.

Senior Analytical Consultant

Global Consulting Organizations

• Equipped clients with tools to increase analytical direction and insight regarding business intelligence activities.
• Delivered consultative services targeting customized client solutions.

Managing Principal, Advisory Analytics Services

• Led and/or co-led post-sales delivery teams responsible for SAS Forecast Server and SAS High Performance Forecasting (HPF) software implementations, knowledge transfer, SAS coding, integration of forecast results into downstream processes, customer care, and occasional pre-sales positioning.
• Delivered analytical software solution consultations and proofs-of-concepts (POC) to all levels of client management using SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS Text Miner, and SAS Forecast Server.
• Earned Sales Innovation (4Q 2006) and Most Valuable Analytical Sales Engineer (4Q 2004) awards.

Analytical Consultant / Analytical Sales Engineer

Chubb Insurance

• Led internal consulting efforts to design analytical processes for new marketing and risk evaluation programs in Personal, Specialty, and Commercial lines to target desired customers; resulted in significant increases in total annualized premiums and reduced marketing costs. 
• Pursued professional development through Society of Insurance Research (SIR) organization by participating in national conferences as follows: Panelist in Kansas City, MO (June 2002) and Presenter in Dallas, TX (June 2003).

Back-Office Analytics Manager

Coverdell & Company

• Led target marketing, statistical analysis, customer acquisition, profiling, and retention, back-end direct mail and campaign ROI analyses, and consumer product targeting initiatives. 
• Managed team of four FTE including two predictive modelers, one SAS programmer, and one direct marketing liaison.
• Nominated for Quarterly Service Award for Outstanding Performance (1Q 2000).

Analytical Services Director

BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc.

• Enhanced bad debt and new landline account rating processes using statistical segmentation techniques.
• Collaborated with department manager to introduce prepaid customer concept for landline customers.

Statistical Projects Manager

Proven data science experience across industry sectors including education, enterprise analytics, software solutions and services, property & casualty insurance services, direct/target marketing services, consumer credit risk services and telecommunications. Working knowledge of industry-leading learning management system (LMS), biometric human resource system (BHRS), data integration and data management software products and solutions. 

Extensive sales consulting, leadership and service experience in risk and wealth management (2011 - present) focusing on Supplemental, Life, Long-Term Care, Final Expense and Disability Income Protection Insurance. Life Insurance licensed in GA, FL, SC, NC, MD, VA, OH and IN.

CORE COMPETENCIES:
• Data Science and Software Process Design/Implementation and Consulting
• Data Science Project Lifecycle Management
• Strategic Client Relationship Building
• C-Level Consultation
• Statistical Forecasting/Machine Learning/Target Marketing  
• Independent Insurance Agency Development, Training and Leadership
• Life, Supplemental, Final Expense and Long-Term Care Insurance Solutions Sales

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