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Chief Data Officer

Sol Amara

Sol Amara
Willing To Relocate Anywhere in the United States
Base ID: 56493

Education

Harvard: Executive Program in Disruptive Strategy

Professional Summary

  • 20+ years of Data IT Professional experience
  • 6 years working directly for IBM. First-generation to take IBM Watson to market. 
  • 7 patents issued,  21 files, and receiving the “Top 21 CDO’s in New York in 2020” award, ”Top 100 Innovators in Data & Analytics”, and “2020 Top 50 Leaders in Entertainment” for her thought leadership in the technology space
  • By using Data & Analytics, Data Science, Automation/RPA, AI, Engineering, Enterprise Information Management Practices, Product Development, Cloud-Based Architecture, Design Thinking, and the latest in Information Systems, Security, and Compliance, Sol is helping organizations become innovative and modern.

Previous Company

Amazon

Certificates

Watson Cognitive Computing C101, Watson Cognitive Computing C201, Business Intelligence BI0101, Cyber Security SC103, Master Data Management MDM100, MDM101, and MDM400, SAP Data Services 4.0, SAP MDG 4.1, SAP NetWeaver NW001, SAP Business Solutions SAP125, PMP

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Postdoctoral Associate

Zhi Chong Lin

Zhi Chong Lin
New York, New York - United States
Base ID: 71542

Education

Ph.D. in Quantitative Computational Biosciences, Baylor College of Medicine

Professional Experience

  • Invent and implement a new and interpretable neural network algorithm that converges 35% faster, reduces 200 times of parameters, and marginally outperforms (AUROC>0.88) traditional neural network in PyTorch.
  • Merged and cleaned data from 3 databases and generated a network of 215,000+ drug-gene-disease associations
  • Implemented and validated graph-based diffusion in Python to predict associations with >90% precision
  • Wrote report with interactive visualization of the analysis of 5,500 job descriptions (1,100+ views in a week)
  • Decreased 94% of time spent in manual annotation by creating a machine learning pipeline using Scikit-learn
  • Postdoctoral Associate & Data Science Certificate

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Lead BI Engineer

Dorian Akanbi

Dorian Akanbi
Willing To Relocate Anywhere in the United States
Base ID: CH0397

Education

2006- Bachelor of Science in Information Technology – Florida State University

2009- Master of Business Administration, Kellogg School of Management – Northwestern University

Professional Experience

  • 9+ years as a Business Intelligence professional with experience working with Tableau, Cognos, PowerBI, and SAP.
  • Extensive SQL, MySQL, PL SQL experience.
  • Provide database coding to support business applications using T-SQL.
  • Server 2008 and Oracle SQL Developer and Developed T-SQL Statements for loading data into Target database.
  • Lead BI Engineer with BI & Analytics Professional Certificate.
  • Oracle Certified Master (oracle database 11g Administrator)

Previous Company

BainCapital

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Azure Cloud Engineer

Ericka Heckman

Ericka Heckman
Willing To Relocate Anywhere in the United States
Base ID: CH5932

Education

Computer Science, M.S. Tandon – NYU

Professional Summary

  • 11+ years of experience in Information Technology, with hands-on experience in Cloud, Systems Engineering or Application Development 
  • Good understanding of identity solutions in Azure like Azure AD, AD B2C and security recommendations
  • Experience with designing, migrating, implementing, and managing Azure IaaS/PaaS/SaaS including Azure Load Balancers, Application Gateways, Azure DNS, Front Door, Storage Accounts, Virtual Networks, Monitor, Security Center, and Log Analytics, Azure Core Platform: Compute, Storage, Networking, General automation, Azure Automation, Azure CLI, PowerShell scripting
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience using Kubernetes, Docker, Containers
  • Cloud Specialist – Azure Cloud Engineer with Azure Administration Associate Certificate.

Previous Company

Samsung

Certificates

AZ 300, AZ301-, AZ-500, AZ-400

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DevOps Data Engineer / Programmer DevOps Data Engineer / Programmer

Patrick Holmes

Patrick Holmes
Willing To Relocate Anywhere in the United States
Base ID: 1721

Education

Master of Science, Statistics – New York University

Professional Experience

  • Big Data expert with extensive software engineering and data scientist skills, an insatiable intellectual curiosity, and the ability to mine hidden gems located within large sets of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
  • A Senior DevOps Engineer who is able to leverage a heavy dose of mathematics and applied statistics with visualization and a healthy sense of exploration using predictive analytics is another area that he thrives in.
  • A Data Science professional experienced in Spark, Scala, and Java are tools that he primarily used to gain insight into our data as well as leverage it.
  • Using Spark to process large data sets, Kafka, and AWS to Stream data as well as to get real-time analytics.

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Machine Learning Engineer: NLP Specialist

Clyde Marx

Clyde Marx
Willing To Relocate Anywhere in the United States
Base ID: 71555

Education

MS, B. Eng: Physics, Material Science Engineering
SM, Nuclear Engineering & Applied Sciences

Profesional Experience

  • Data Science professional who delivers engineering solutions that systematize management by automating decision-making at the company level. This includes processing unstructured text data (e.g PDFs) into query-able tables of interesting entities.
  • The AI COE resides at the intersection of all core activity within Fidelity investments by providing AI-driven insights for the $5.7 T of assets managed for clients.
  • A Machine Learning Engineer who implemented ML & data science techniques to process call data leveraging knowledge graphs, ontology, named entity recognition, speech/written language/voice recognition, and interactive chatbots.
  • Data Engineer who published an internal white paper detailing a Laplace smoothing technique he implemented for noise reduction in time series data.

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