Experience

Mission Lane

• United States
• Financial Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Head of Data Science & Machine Learning Engineering

  • Mar 2023 - Present

• Head of Data Science, Credit Cards

  • Nov 2021 - Present

• Director of Data Science

  • Aug 2020 - Present

• Principal Data Scientist

  • Jan 2019 - Aug 2020

  Part of the founding team at Mission Lane.



LendUp

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Data Scientist

  • Sep 2014 - Jan 2019

  Led the development of credit models and the implementation of every credit policy for LendUp Card Services to scale the business from its 1st card all the way through its sale and spin-off as Mission Lane, one of the most promising new challengers in the subprime credit card market. Consistently improved net present value while growing the business over the course of over 4 years by deploying best in class machine learning models subject to strict regulatory requirements and leading cross-functional teams of up to 30 people. Show less

• Senior Data Scientist

  • May 2015 - Jun 2018

• Data Scientist

  • Sep 2014 - May 2015



The New York Times

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Scientist

  • Jun 2012 - Jun 2014

  At the Times I contributed to several different businesses under the corporate umbrella: For NYT Digital I built a comment moderation system that used online learning and active learning principles with expert moderators as the "human in the loop" to provide a safe, constructive environment for readers. The complete work was presented at the New York Academy of Sciences Machine Learning Symposium. With Ricochet Media, an advertising platform, I created the content discovery system, which included content recommendation, trending content, and search. To transform the Cascade Project, a data visualization prototype developed by Mark Hansen and Jer Thorpe, into a social media analytics product I developed data pipelines and algorithms on the Twitter fire-hose to provide predictions and insights on trending stories, net reach, and network dynamics. Show less



Quicken Loans

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Data Analyst

  • Aug 2009 - Jun 2012

  Developed a suite of models to hedge $6 billion dollars of interest rate risk on a daily basis, which outperformed the industry-leader QRMConducted an unusually diverse set of analytics projects across the Quicken Loans family of companies including: causal modeling of disparate impact, lead queue prioritization models, prosody analysis, sentiment analysis, and CRM analytics

• Data Analyst

  • Feb 2007 - Aug 2009



Carnegie Mellon University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Interfacial Physics Group

  • Oct 2003 - Dec 2006

  Investigated the phase transition of water in the fuel cell proton exchange membrane Nafion in a joint collaboration between GM, Ford, and Carnegie Mellon University for application in clean energy fuel cell vehicles Investigated the phase transition of water in the fuel cell proton exchange membrane Nafion in a joint collaboration between GM, Ford, and Carnegie Mellon University for application in clean energy fuel cell vehicles