Experience

Edison Software

• United States
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Data Scientist (Ph.D.)

  • Nov 2018 - Present

  - Implement end-to-end pipelines to extract and process data from multiple sources using a combination of AWS cloud tools, Spark (pyspark), SQL and python.- Perform statistical modeling on consumer behavioral data extracted from the Edison platform. This includes NLP classification, extensive feature analysis, sampling, and time series analysis.- Develop scalable, repeatable, and accurate regression models to measure and predict KPIs for e-commerce sales using cohorts, regularization, and time series analysis.- Write production code for critical product pipelines that process large (1-2B rows) data sets using pyspark and SQL. This includes performance optimization, cluster tuning (EMR), and use of version control tools (git).- Design and publish customer facing e-commerce reports and customer facing analytic dashboards.- Supervisor for data analyst (1) and data scientist intern (1).



North Dakota State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PHD Graduate Student

  • Aug 2015 - Mar 2019

  - Successfully defended PhD in physics education research- Lead deep investigations into persistent student difficulties; performed 5 experiments over a 2 year study leading to a significant increase in student performance over leading method- Investigated novel approaches to understand reasoning; combined cognitive theories and physics education instructional practices to probe the relationships between cognitive skills and physics performance- Co-authored 3 publications in Physical Review PER and 7 national conference presentations

• Physics Instructor

  • Jan 2017 - May 2018



Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

• Masters Student

  • Oct 2012 - Aug 2014

  - Developed automated methods to fit multiple Gaussian models to 100s of spectral data sources from the Herschel Space Telescope and APEX telescope - Generated regression models that predicted the 12 brightest spectral sources - Wrote and submitted proposal for observations; New sources were observed confirming regression predictions

• Research and Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2010 - May 2012

  -Taught a weekly physics tutorial-Awarded Outstanding Teaching Assistant by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)



Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • May 2008 - Jan 2012

  -Developed novel methods to laser anneal silicon thin-film solar cells and flexible electronics-Involved in high power (~20W at 1064nm and 120W at 1064nm) pulsed and CW laser experimentation and operation