Metis

Data Scientist
March 2020 – Current

Indeed

Strategic Growth Consultant - HR Business Insights
November 2018-March 2020

Real Life Sciences

Life Sciences Strategic Partnerships Consultant -
East Coast Region January 2017-October 2018

Zearn Math Nonprofit

Coding Associate (temp)
November 2016-January 2017

Blenheim CDP Social Action Charity

Research Assistant
October 2015-October 2016

Completed an immersive 12-week data science bootcamp with a strong emphasis on project-oriented skill-building in problem solving, data wrangling, statistical modeling, machine learning, visualizations, and communication of deliverables to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Project highlights include:

The Evolution of Hip Hop through NLP:

Performed topic modeling using Latent Dirichlet Allocation on a collection of over 14,000 hip hop songs across four decades to examine subject content over time
Scraped text data from the website lyrics.com using BeautifulSoup
Preprocessed text with NLTK and RegEx

Produced visualizations with Tableau to show time series topic fluctuation

MedRec: A Drug Recommender App

Identified topics for over 50,000 drug reviews and built content-based recommender system using CountVectorizer, non-negative matrix factorization, and cosine similarity

Developed a prototype web app using Flask that allows users to enter symptom and receive most highly rated drugs for that symptom

Predicting a Customer’s Instacart Order:

Predicted whether items would appear in a user’s current instacart order by utilizing classification algorithms and engineering features to optimize f1-score (logistic regression, random forest, gradient boosted trees)
Reduced validation error by 50%+ by handling class imbalance, ensembling, and gradient boosting

Predicting the Willingness to Try a Vegan Recipe:

Predicted the willingness to try cooking a vegan recipe as measured by number of recipe votes
Scraped 1,500 recipes from minimalistbaker.com using BeautifulSoup
Selected specific nutritional characteristics using LASSO feature selection and modeled those features using Linear Regression

The Next Williamsburg - Where Should the Next Brooklyn Residential Luxury Hub Be Built?

Combined NYC subway turnstile data with residential demographic data to better understand and visualize where the next residential luxury building could thrive (Pandas, Seaborn, Plotly)

As a Strategic Growth Consultant, worked closely with high potential clients as a trusted advisor to bridge the gap between knowledge gained through data-driven analyses and the crafting of a robust recruitment and branding strategy.
Duties & Results:

Analyzed client campaign performance metrics to extract actionable insights to drive procurement strategy decisions
Delivered engagement and revenue analysis to business leaders after building data workflows to understand current recruitment campaigns Successfully designed and presented recruitment and branding initiatives to a portfolio of over 100 SMBs with the goal of harnessing the power of data in order to achieve their recruitment and branding goals
Instilled the importance of data-driven decision making with respect to recruitment strategy through the design of market insights reports, hypothesis testing and self-service analytics platform training

Responsible for $2 million in annual procurement budgets across clients

As a Life Sciences Strategic Partnerships Consultant at Real Life Sciences, objective was to grow strategic partnerships within the Life Sciences sector along the East coast.

The metrics for success in this function were to capture hiring spend in various business units and growing the Strategic Account Portfolio through consistent client development activities. Consistently performed in the Top 5% of 450 of Business Development consultants nationally based on revenue growth.
Client Portfolio included Biogen, Celgene, Daiichi, Eisai, Takeda, Shire and Mallinckrodt.

Duties & Results:
30+ Onsite Client meetings per month
Identifying and understanding industry trends
Achieved avg. 162% of 2018 Revenue growth target in my portfolio.
Relationships are of the utmost importance: clients were CMO’s, CFO’s, Procurement VP’s, HR VP’s and Business heads.

Collaborated with software engineers, designers, and educators to define, prioritize, and deliver high quality digital math lessons and supplementary teaching tools
Developed student interactive website with Javascript

Worked as the principal investigator of MSc clinical neuroscience dissertation research project focusing on the interaction between drug use and sleep quality with an emphasis on novel psychostimulants
Secured external partnership with Blenheim CDP and NHS in order to recruit 110 patients to participate in sleep study
Coordinated the data management of sleep study and patient health records in compliance with federal regulations and internal policies by ensuring accurate and timely compilation of subject data, programs, studies, and protocols