Work Experience Department of Defense Data Scientist with 13 years of full time professional work experience. Strong technical background with the ability to proactively identify and mitigate technical risks throughout delivery life-cycle. An operator that executes on high priority enterprise level initiatives, influences across organizations and drives the implementations of technical strategies. Specifically, partnering closely with stakeholders, product engineers, data scientists and other cross functional teams to create roadmaps, scope programs aligning them with business priorities, define milestones and success metrics, and build scalable, secure, reliable, efficient products and platforms. Core competencies include: machine learning, statistical modeling, data mining, data engineering, mathematics, database management (relational/graph/non-relational), cloud analytics, data pipeline workflows, developing interactive dashboards, project management, and customer relationships. Education Masters of Data Science, Illinois Institute of Technology Masters of STEM Leadership, Illinois Institute of Technology B.A. Entrepreneurship/Small Business Management, and Corporate Management, at North Central College. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Intern at the Deep Space Network. Research and developed machine learning models that look at past signal loss anomalies and correlated them with weather condition patterns. Quantified the thresholds of the strength of wind and angle of the antennae fish to see how much signal loss there was. The Deep Space Network maintains communications with all NASA spacecraft.