Andrew Watson
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Paul Foley
Andrew and I worked together at Deloitte. Andrew is a talented, hardworking, and motivated individual. He is always current on the newest technologies, and seems to be one step ahead in knowing how software is driving and disrupting the way business is done. In addition to his analytic skills, Andrew is an absolute joy to work with. He constantly maintains a positive attitude, and brings great enthusiasm to his work everyday. He is an all around amazing human being, and any team will be lucky to have him.
Paul Foley
Andrew and I worked together at Deloitte. Andrew is a talented, hardworking, and motivated individual. He is always current on the newest technologies, and seems to be one step ahead in knowing how software is driving and disrupting the way business is done. In addition to his analytic skills, Andrew is an absolute joy to work with. He constantly maintains a positive attitude, and brings great enthusiasm to his work everyday. He is an all around amazing human being, and any team will be lucky to have him.
Paul Foley
Andrew and I worked together at Deloitte. Andrew is a talented, hardworking, and motivated individual. He is always current on the newest technologies, and seems to be one step ahead in knowing how software is driving and disrupting the way business is done. In addition to his analytic skills, Andrew is an absolute joy to work with. He constantly maintains a positive attitude, and brings great enthusiasm to his work everyday. He is an all around amazing human being, and any team will be lucky to have him.
Paul Foley
Andrew and I worked together at Deloitte. Andrew is a talented, hardworking, and motivated individual. He is always current on the newest technologies, and seems to be one step ahead in knowing how software is driving and disrupting the way business is done. In addition to his analytic skills, Andrew is an absolute joy to work with. He constantly maintains a positive attitude, and brings great enthusiasm to his work everyday. He is an all around amazing human being, and any team will be lucky to have him.
Experience
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Bifrost AI
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of Commercial
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Sep 2022 - Present
Bifrost enables 30x faster Computer Vision development. Using generative AI and procedural generation, Bifrost can generate large, photo-realistic, and diverse datasets to train AI models in minutes, not months. Bifrost is proud to be backed by: Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital, Wavemaker, Techstars, Champion Hill ventures, and Capvista, amongst others. Bifrost enables 30x faster Computer Vision development. Using generative AI and procedural generation, Bifrost can generate large, photo-realistic, and diverse datasets to train AI models in minutes, not months. Bifrost is proud to be backed by: Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital, Wavemaker, Techstars, Champion Hill ventures, and Capvista, amongst others.
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Socure
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United States
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Software Development
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300 - 400 Employee
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VP of Sales
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Nov 2019 - Sep 2022
Socure provides a real-time predictive analytics platform that combines the newest forms of machine learning and artificial intelligence with digital, offline and social identity data to deliver the most accurate and robust Know Your Customer (KYC), Identity Verification and Fraud Risk Prediction Solution in the market. Socure deploys its advanced identity verification robot across email, phone, online/social, address, IP, physical documents and traditional offline proprietary predictors… Show more Socure provides a real-time predictive analytics platform that combines the newest forms of machine learning and artificial intelligence with digital, offline and social identity data to deliver the most accurate and robust Know Your Customer (KYC), Identity Verification and Fraud Risk Prediction Solution in the market. Socure deploys its advanced identity verification robot across email, phone, online/social, address, IP, physical documents and traditional offline proprietary predictors to help clients better assess identity risk and substantially increase acceptance, reduce fraud losses, and optimize manual review/step up authentication for transactions and applications in the digital world. From a single RESTful API, Socure delivers best-of-breed email, phone, and address riskScores, NAPE correlation models, overall identity fraud risk prediction, KYC/CIP, AML Watchlist and physical document verification services. Socure has helped multiple online lenders and banks capture 5-10X more fraud than legacy traditional bureau based solutions, while reducing KBA and manual review rates by over 80% and increasing auto-acceptance rates by 35%. Show less Socure provides a real-time predictive analytics platform that combines the newest forms of machine learning and artificial intelligence with digital, offline and social identity data to deliver the most accurate and robust Know Your Customer (KYC), Identity Verification and Fraud Risk Prediction Solution in the market. Socure deploys its advanced identity verification robot across email, phone, online/social, address, IP, physical documents and traditional offline proprietary predictors… Show more Socure provides a real-time predictive analytics platform that combines the newest forms of machine learning and artificial intelligence with digital, offline and social identity data to deliver the most accurate and robust Know Your Customer (KYC), Identity Verification and Fraud Risk Prediction Solution in the market. Socure deploys its advanced identity verification robot across email, phone, online/social, address, IP, physical documents and traditional offline proprietary predictors to help clients better assess identity risk and substantially increase acceptance, reduce fraud losses, and optimize manual review/step up authentication for transactions and applications in the digital world. From a single RESTful API, Socure delivers best-of-breed email, phone, and address riskScores, NAPE correlation models, overall identity fraud risk prediction, KYC/CIP, AML Watchlist and physical document verification services. Socure has helped multiple online lenders and banks capture 5-10X more fraud than legacy traditional bureau based solutions, while reducing KBA and manual review rates by over 80% and increasing auto-acceptance rates by 35%. Show less
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Cloudera
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Regional Sales Director
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Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Led a rockstar team of 7 Account Managers who were focused on helping our customers drive success with our platform as well as identifying and on-boarding net-new customers. 3 ICs and the team exceeded 100% of quotas and made presidents club.
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Account Manager
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Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
Powering the future of data for the Data-Defined Enterprise The Hortonworks connected data suite family of solutions delivers end to end capabilities for data-in-motion and data-at-rest. Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF™) collects, curates, analyzes and delivers real-time data from the Internet of Anything (IoAT) – devices, sensors clickstreams, log files and more. Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP®) enables the creation of a secure enterprise data lake and delivers the analytics you need to… Show more Powering the future of data for the Data-Defined Enterprise The Hortonworks connected data suite family of solutions delivers end to end capabilities for data-in-motion and data-at-rest. Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF™) collects, curates, analyzes and delivers real-time data from the Internet of Anything (IoAT) – devices, sensors clickstreams, log files and more. Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP®) enables the creation of a secure enterprise data lake and delivers the analytics you need to innovate fast and power real-time business insights. Together, Hortonworks DataFlow and Hortonworks Data Platform empower the deployment of modern data applications.
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Senior Solutions Engineer
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Nov 2014 - Jan 2017
Helping clients enable the Modern Data Architecture with Hortonworks Data Platform, the only 100% open source distribution of Apache Hadoop for the enterprise. Responsible for major accounts in the Greater Chicago & Milwaukee Metros.
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Deloitte
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Consultant
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Aug 2011 - Nov 2014
Designed, architected and implemented big data solutions
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Consultant - Fortune 100 Insurance Company
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Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
- Designed the technical architecture for the big data, Hadoop section of a new Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solution that is being developed to aggregate all internal business data - Created design for the initial Use Case to gain insights from unstructured data in insurance claim adjuster notes - Developed a prototype using Hive’s User Defined Functions (UDFs) to extract adjuster notes, along with additional key data elements, that were analyzed using SAS
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Consultant - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
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May 2012 - Nov 2013
- Worked through the full System Development Lifecycle to implement a compliance monitoring solution that aggregates and analyzes commercial loans (e.g., mortgage, payday, and auto loans) and accounts (e.g., savings account) in support of CFPB’s Supervision, Enforcement, and Fair Lending mission - Transformed business requirements to technical requirements - Led the data integration workstream, ingesting data from multiple external upstream systems and exporting data to downstream… Show more - Worked through the full System Development Lifecycle to implement a compliance monitoring solution that aggregates and analyzes commercial loans (e.g., mortgage, payday, and auto loans) and accounts (e.g., savings account) in support of CFPB’s Supervision, Enforcement, and Fair Lending mission - Transformed business requirements to technical requirements - Led the data integration workstream, ingesting data from multiple external upstream systems and exporting data to downstream systems - Created reports to identify loans of interest for more detailed review by CFPB examiners - Co-led the security workstream to ensure the solution was Center for Internet Security (CIS) compliant
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Business Analyst - Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
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Aug 2011 - May 2012
- Worked in the IRS Customer Account Data Engine (CADE) 2 Program Management Office to support the delivery of daily tax processing capability - formerly weekly batch processing - and the creation of a 21st century relational database storing all individual taxpayer account data - Completed a Gap Analysis of data field requirements between the current and future state systems - Mapped transformation rules , changing data from the current to future state, to downstream systems
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Deloitte
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Summer Scholar (Intern)
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Jun 2010 - Aug 2010
Worked on a project to implement a new database for the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) to support programming, planning and budgeting functions. Prepared cost-benefit analysis to select defect testing software for the new database. Also supported testing including running test scripts, logging results, and tracking errors. Assisted on an employee development strategy project for the USMC which included programming, planning and budgeting personnel. Cataloged internal and external training… Show more Worked on a project to implement a new database for the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) to support programming, planning and budgeting functions. Prepared cost-benefit analysis to select defect testing software for the new database. Also supported testing including running test scripts, logging results, and tracking errors. Assisted on an employee development strategy project for the USMC which included programming, planning and budgeting personnel. Cataloged internal and external training courses available to employees by competency and level. Worked with fellow interns on a case study involving a complex problem faced by one of Deloitte’s clients. Presented analysis and recommendations to a group of Deloitte partners, principals, and directors. Show less Worked on a project to implement a new database for the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) to support programming, planning and budgeting functions. Prepared cost-benefit analysis to select defect testing software for the new database. Also supported testing including running test scripts, logging results, and tracking errors. Assisted on an employee development strategy project for the USMC which included programming, planning and budgeting personnel. Cataloged internal and external training… Show more Worked on a project to implement a new database for the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) to support programming, planning and budgeting functions. Prepared cost-benefit analysis to select defect testing software for the new database. Also supported testing including running test scripts, logging results, and tracking errors. Assisted on an employee development strategy project for the USMC which included programming, planning and budgeting personnel. Cataloged internal and external training courses available to employees by competency and level. Worked with fellow interns on a case study involving a complex problem faced by one of Deloitte’s clients. Presented analysis and recommendations to a group of Deloitte partners, principals, and directors. Show less
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Education
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Virginia Tech
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering