EDUCATION:

• Executive Banking School, Consumer Bankers Association, 2018
• M.S. Statistics, Miami University, 2004, GPA: 4.00 (Comer-Reynolds Memorial Award for Engineering and Statistics)
• M.E.M. Engineering Management, Old Dominion University, 2003, GPA: 3.85
• Navy Nuclear Power School, Charleston S.C., 1999, GPA: 3.73 (Top graduate in the class, 1 out of 86)
• B.S. Physics, With Distinction, U.S. Naval Academy, 1998, GPA: 3.92 (Trident Scholar Prize for undergraduate research)

CERTIFICATIONS:

• Project Management Institute, Project Management Professional, 2009-Present

EXPERIENCE:

Data Scientist, Statistician, Project Manager, Application Developer, Manager

Huntington National Bank, Enterprise Analytics Director (Columbus, OH) April 2015 - Present

Manage a team of 40 data scientists, MBAs, engineers, and database managers responsible for optimizing the return on investment of Huntington’s marketing spend, indirect automobile lending pricing, and the distribution network. Responsible for developing test designs, ensuring tests are statistically relevant, and ensuring that production levels are maintained. Responsible for statistical analysis of marketing campaigns to determine Return on Investment and the best tactics to optimize the return. Developed a process for determining the incremental lift of media. Developed a method for global optimization of the marketing budget.

Battelle, Research Leader, Manager (Columbus, OH) January 2005 - April 2015

Led large projects over the whole project lifecycle across the spectrum of data mining, data science, statistical analysis, risk assessment, risk management, algorithm development, software development, systems architecture, simulation, and high performance computing.

• Line Management (Oct 2009 – Sept 2012): Supervised 12 research staff (statisticians, physicists, mathematicians, data scientists). Served as a line manager and mentor, set goals and group priorities, developed training requirements, monitored performance, and conducted performance reviews. Set the strategic direction for consulting services in the group. Interfaced with management and external clients to provide project insights, results, and actionable recommendations.
• Business Development: Interfaced with clients and stakeholders across the scope of the project lifecycle from concept, to proposal, to execution, and finally to closing. Has led capture planning and proposal development for government and commercial projects.
• Project Management: Led over $10M in business with projects as large as $2M with up to 30 people. Has developed statistical analysis software or led a software development project for probabilistic risk assessment problems, bioinformatics, image analysis, statistical classification, chemometrics, and network analysis. Supervised and collaborated in solution development and troubleshooting. Certified PMP and experienced with Earned Value Management Systems.
• Technical expertise: Expert data scientist and statistician for a broad range of subject areas. Projects include next generation sequencing for forensic identification, the Integrated CBRN Terrorism Risk Assessment, national/homeland security risk management, transportation safety benefits analysis, chemometric statistical equivalence testing, gene expression classification, and forensic evidence classification. Strong in structured and unstructured data analysis, multivariate methods, non-linear models, segmentation and clustering
• Tools: Very experienced with R/RStudio, Hadoop/NoSQL, S-plus, SAS, OpenBUGS, C/C++, Java, C#, ASP.NET web applications, MS SQLServer, MySQL, SQLite, Hadoop, Windows & Linux, OpenMPI, Boost, Visual Studio, Netbeans, Eclipse, Subversion, Mercurial, Git, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, VB.NET

Miami University Assistant Professor, Naval ROTC (Oxford, OH) August 2002 - January 2005

Developed professional and academic training programs to develop students into Navy and Marine Corps Officers. Nominated as the instructor of the year for the Naval Service Training Command.

Nuclear Engineer, Submarine Officer (Kings Bay, GA) January 2000 - August 2002

Directly responsible for up to 30 personnel on a submarine in a highly regulated environment. Championed Navy policies and procedures, and developed effective processes to ensure safety and compliance. Responsible to the Commanding Officer for the operation of a submarine and its nuclear reactor during shutdown and at power operations.

Professional Societies:

Project Management Institute, American Statistical Association