Principal Data Scientist & Consultant

A highly experienced Data Scientist and Consultant with over 20 years of experience, specializing in consulting and fractional leadership. This individual excels at solving complex, unconventional problems where standard solutions are insufficient. Key achievements include preventing lemon law recalls for a German automaker and predicting server failures for a major cloud vendor. Expertise spans various industries and technical areas, including forecasting (oil reservoir, well engineering), predictive modeling (automotive part failure, shipping piracy risk), real-time routing (CVRP-PD-TW), natural language processing (legal entity/contract term extraction), and computer vision (wound identification/tissue classification). Currently interested in applying LLMs and agents to executive functioning. Proficient with standard data science stacks (Python, PyTorch, Spark/Ray, AWS, Postgres) but emphasizes problem-driven solutions. Offers services in planning, prototyping, and productionizing data science solutions. Actively seeking challenging problems. Explicitly declines work related to ads, gambling, or 'enshittification'. Expresses a preference for hands-on, physical work.