SEEKING WORK - San Francisco, CA / Remote / Limited travel
Strategy consultant turned data scientist available for strategic data-driven projects. Experience and interest in the following high-impact areas:
* Fraud Prevention and Risk Management: Experience designing and implementing technical and policy-level systems for combating a wide range of fraud vectors -- both online and for offline, technology-enabled partners
* Pricing: Available for projects focused on novel pricing challenges and pricing/product launch strategy. Experienced with novel mechanisms such as information/prediction markets, modeling market and other social dynamics.
* Crowdsourcing/Open Innovation: Experience designing large-scale public contests, and evaluating other open innovation mechanisms. Significant experience convening thought leaders and innovators, designing collaborative workshops, etc.
Brief background:
* 4 years of experience at a top-tier management consulting firm, including 2 years of experience designing projects and managing 2-5 person project teams
* 1 year of applied technical experience in a full-time data science role. Overhauled employer's fraud prevention system, and built custom machine-learning system processing thousands of transactions per day in &lt; 100ms. Previously had quantitative social science academic training and completed 2 major technical side projects in the fields of remote sensing (satellite imagery) and bioinformatics/genomics
* Technical skills and experience: Experienced with a Python stack for data analysis, machine learning, analytic web apps, and formal APIs. Additional experience with R and GIS applications. Experience working with a hybrid C/Cython/Python stack where speed is of the essence
* Other technical background: Amateur bioinformaticist, 2nd place finish in the DoD's $1M Metagenomics Algorithm Prize (<a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/dtra/algorithmchallenge/prweb11150852.htm" >)
Please feel free to contact me at freelancedatasf [at] gmail.com with any questions and inquiries. Happy to discuss any and all interesting projects at the intersection(s) of competitive strategy, data, and social/user dynamics.
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