Brad Yarbro

Lead ML Engineer

Birmingham, Alabama, United States4 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Progressed from Data Analyst to Lead Data Scientist.
Developed AI/ML models for underwriting programs.
Expert in Python and Machine Learning applications.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science and Machine Learning expert in Fintech and Healthcare industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningArtificial IntelligenceData Science

Other Skills

Large Language Models (LLM)Computer VisionPythonNatural Language Processing (NLP)SQLPower BIStatistical ModelingDockerMicrosoft SQL ServerStatistical Data AnalysisEconometricsStatisticsMathematicsProgrammingResearch

About

From broke student with no skills to Data Analyst to Sr. Data Analyst to Sr. Data Scientist to Lead Data Scientist to Sr. Machine Learning Engineer. Message me "CAREER" if you are interested in 1x1 Career Coaching for Data Science/Analytics and Machine Learning. I’ve learned many lessons along the way and I’m sharing them all on LinkedIn. ---------- The views expressed in my LinkedIn posts are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of Lockheed Martin.

Experience

4 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Lockheed martin

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Remote

Large Language Models (LLM)Computer VisionMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence

Protective life

2 roles

Lead Data Scientist

Aug 2024 – Oct 2024 · 2 mos · Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Hired, trained, and managed Protective's first Data Scientist for the summer intern program. Expanded to two interns for the next summer.
Led model development for the accelerated underwriting program.

PythonMachine LearningData Science

Senior Data Scientist

Jul 2021 – Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Developed AI/ML Models in Python for Protective Life's Accelerated Underwriting Program.
Built model monitoring capabilities from scratch in Python to identify data issues impacting the production model.
Collaborate with actuarial and underwriting teams to assess and improve mortality.
Onboarded and mentored two junior data scientists and hired first data science intern

PythonNatural Language Processing (NLP)Data ScienceMachine Learning

Lockheed martin

2 roles

Senior Data Scientist Analyst - Supply Chain

Sep 2020 – Jul 2021 · 10 mos

Developed prototype recommendation engine in Python to identify potential additional suppliers for sole sourced parts.
Built Python ETL and Tableau dashboards to automate reports - reduced time to build reports from 2 weeks to daily automatically updating dashboards.

PythonData ScienceMachine Learning

Data Analyst - Supplier Quality Engineering

Jun 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

Helped develop and implement a random forest model in R to predict the cause of quality defects.
A/B tested part measurements and performed Statistical Process Control to reduce supplier recurring defects.

PythonNatural Language Processing (NLP)Data ScienceMachine Learning

The university of alabama

Data Scientist - Graduate Research - Institute of Data Analytics

May 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr · On-site

Built and automated graphs, metrics, and reports using Python, SQL, Tableau, R, and Excel.
Researched clustering methods on medical condition data.
Contributed to Alabama Medicaire Research Project.

PythonSQLData Science