Mar 2021 – Apr 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo

May 2020 – Apr 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Jul 2018 – Jan 2025 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

• Ternary Data are veteran data engineers and “recovering data scientists” who have firsthand experience with the challenges of succeeding with data. We offer practical data engineering advice.

Apr 2017 – Sep 2017 · 5 mos · Salt Lake City, Utah

• Consulted with Big Squid clients and sales prospects about how to implement and leverage data science and machine learning within their organization.
• Built and implemented data science curriculum and training for Big Squid's sales and consulting team.
• Advised engineering and product team on data science best practices, infrastructure, and algorithms.
• Engineered data science and predictive analytics solutions for clients.
• Certified Domo technical consultant.

Mar 2015 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

• Built Teem's (formerly Eventboard, now WeWork) analytics and data platform from the ground up. The insights and data help optimize and empower the workplaces of many smart companies including Uber, LinkedIn, Netflix, Dropbox, Airbnb, Palantir, Pinterest, Twitter, etc, etc, etc.
• Built and managed a team of nearly a dozen brilliant engineers and data scientists.
• Oversaw all data science and data engineering initiatives.

Jul 2014 – Mar 2015 · 8 mos · Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Refactored front end of application from Django into Angular
• Enhanced company's analytics capabilities via internal BI
• Core technologies used: Django, Python, Angular

Feb 2013 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · greater salt lake city area

• Worked on Pure Predictive, a cutting edge machine learning application. Focused heavily on solving the fundamental problem in which data scientists spending 80%+ of their time on preprocessing and munging data, and only a fraction of their time on analysis.
• Core development and invention of automated data preprocessing and feature selection tools to transform data into machine readable format. End result: reduced the time spent on data science pre-processing and data munging from 20+ hours to around 1 minute.
• Project lead of a team consisting of top notch data scientists, senior software engineers, and Math PhDs.
• Heavily involved in machine learning.
• Technologies used: Python, Java, Hadoop, AWS, Unix

Dec 2011 – Feb 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Park City, UT

• Demand planning, forecasting, and global supply chain management.
• Worked with key Asian vendors.
• Integrated Astro's supply and demand components into Skullcandy.
• Implemented MRP, forecasting processes, and supply chain management processes for their gaming division.
• Supported global product launches into major Consumer Electronics retailers (Best Buy, Target, Gamestop, and key international partners).
• Key to the success of the hottest gaming headset of 2012 - the Astro A50.
• Experience with SAP, Oracle Demantra.

Sep 2009 – Present · 16 yrs 8 mos · Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Data engineering and architecture consulting.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr · Lander, WY

• Oversaw all companywide operations.
• Implemented technological improvements for asset tracking and logistics.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr

• Senior merchandise planner for men's, women's, and children's actions sports apparel (Dogfunk.com).
• Built and implemented predictive analytics solutions for merchandise team.
• Spearheaded process, forecasting, and technological improvements in the merchandising division.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2008 · 5 yrs · Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

• Held a variety of positions from marketing to operations, mainly doing forecasting, predictive analytics, optimization modeling and business reporting/intelligence. Built and implemented end to end predictive analytics solutions for marketing, sales, finance, and operations.
• Supported many product launches into major retailers such as Wal-Mart, Costco, Target, and Walgreens, as well as high end retailers such as Bloomingdale's, Saks 5th Avenue, and Sephora. These product launches resulted in billions of dollars in sales.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2005 · 5 yrs · Salt Lake City, Utah

• A very early version of SoundCloud. Created the app and hosted electronic music from DJs and producers from around the globe.