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Burton Mcfarland is a seasoned data scientist and analytics expert with 20+ years of experience in data analysis, business strategy, and predictive analytics. He has led customer engagements to build Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and has expertise in machine learning, statistics, and SQL. Burton has held senior roles in data science, including Senior Data Scientist at Kumo.AI, Director of Data Science at DataRobot, and Senior Data Scientist at Publicis Sapient.

Credentials

  • Convolutional Neural Networks
    Coursera
    Jul, 2018
    - May, 2026
  • Sequence Models
    Coursera
    Jun, 2018
    - May, 2026
  • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization
    Coursera
    Sep, 2017
    - May, 2026
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning
    Coursera
    Sep, 2017
    - May, 2026

Experience

    • Data Science Team Lead
    • Senior Data Scientist - Post Sales
      • Feb 2023 - Present

      Leads customer engagements to build Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to solve a variety of machine learning use-cases, leveraging the KUMO platform. Typical use-cases are personalization and customer engagement such as: product recommendation, customer churn, customer notification optimization, and ...

  • DataRobot
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area
    • Director of Data Science, Professional Services
      • Dec 2019 - Feb 2023
      • Baltimore, Maryland Area

      Leads the data science post sales team for federal customers. The purpose of this role is to move machine learning use cases from idea to production using the DataRobot platform. This role requires a heavy consultative approach to frame the problem, as well as being a hands-on data scientist buil...

  • Publicis Sapient
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area
    • Senior Data Scientist
      • Nov 2016 - Dec 2019
      • Washington D.C. Metro Area

      Leads Data Science teams in the implementation of machine learning techniques for clients who want to operationalize value from their data. Our teams are involved in the entire data science process from developing machine learning use case, all the way through full scale implementation of predict...

  • Somete Technology Group, LLC
    • Falls Church, Virginia
    • Vice President of Analytics
      • Jan 2013 - Oct 2016
      • Falls Church, Virginia

      Helped design, build, and test the STG proprietary analytics engine, ASCENT. This engine was built to leverage complex data feeds to include: stock market data, financial statements, news feeds, and investor sentiment, in order to gain insight into market activities and forecast index movements. ...

    • Manager
      • Apr 2005 - Oct 2012

      Spent the first two years as a system developer creating Command and Control software for DoD clients. This included not only development of the software, but also system support of production systems deployed by Marine units in IraqTransitioned into the role of IT consultant helping clients defi...

Education

  • 2009 - 2012
    The Johns Hopkins University
  • 2001 - 2004
    Full Sail University

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