Head of ML/AI Research and Platforms at Zappos Family of Companies

Lead a cross functional collection of teams at Zappos including- Search/Discovery Platform- Product Catalog Service- Website Analytics- Machine Learning Research- Machine Learning Infrastructure- Machine Learning APIs- TaxonomyThe primary objectives of the organization are- All ML and AI driven solutions at the Zappos Family of Companies- Maintaining a relevant and personalized website search experience- Creating opportunities for discoverability within the browse experience- Maintaining a rich taxonomy that powers discovery and ML- Driving ML and AI driven operational efficiencies company wide- Driving ML and AI driven enhancements to the customer facing experience- Democratizing ML and AI capabilities and making data more easily accessible across the organization.- Building and democratizing forecasting capabilities to be used by finance and inventory management teams.- Ensuring data driven decision making and maintaining a test driven product development environment
    
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      Zappos Family of Companies
        
  

Lead both the ML Scientist and ML Engineering teams at Zappos.Design, build and execute on a system that uses big data technologies and machine learning to- ingest realtime dynamic event streams across various sources to power ML products- maintain a collection of ML solutions available for consumption by customer facing stacks.- power a unified personalization experience- expose the entire ML suite over highly scalable Tier 1 APIs- power a robust semantic search experience- solve business critical problems in innovative ways
    
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- Architect, design and build production data science platform to support Machine Learning algorithms- Architect, design and build real time data pipelines for high volume and high throughput data in AWS- Find insights in data to help drive business decisions- Design data sets and predictive models to support CRM and loyalty- Build automated monitoring systems for web analytics metrics- Devise new methods to drive SEO through personalization- Build models for clustering and profiling of inventory- Improve and optimise data related technologies and techniques- Provide technical reviews of incoming data science candidates- Design and analyse tests for innovative and new experiences
    
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- Contracted by leading e-commerce business.- Led architecture and design of big data management and analysis platforms- Worked to expose data for static data analysis, data visualisation, and dash boarding- Consumed data sets to build predictive supervised and unsupervised models.- Accepted accountability for all technical contractual obligations of the company
    
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- Assisted on and led multiple projects. - Areas of Work: Web development, Predictive Modelling, Clustering, Image Segmentation, API Development.- Tools Utilised: Big Query, Redshift, SQL, HDFS, Spark- Data Sets: Electronic Medical Records, Whole Slide Images, Flowcytometry Data, MRI Images
    
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      Emory University
  

- Static data analysis to support business decisions across departments- Assisted in developing of series of scripts that can be used to pipe data from Oracle to AWS Redshift- Designed an Architecture based in AWS that allows for real time analysis and Machine Learning in an  end to end cloud based pipeline. Utilises Kinesis, S3, AWS Datapipelines, Redshift, and EMR
    
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University of West Georgia

This job included looking out for residents, making sure residential hall policies were followed, helping students with personal and academic troubles, planning events and activities for the residents and raising the general standard of living on campus.


Study of effects of thermal denaturation on Aquaporin 1Ran ELISAs and Wester Blots


About us

  Tanner Health System is a non-profit regional healthcare provider serving west Georgia and east Alabama. Tanner facilities include the 201-bed acute care Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton, the 40-bed acute care Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, the 25-bed critical access Higgins General Hospital in Bremen, the 15-bed Tanner Medical Center/East Alabama in Wedowee and the 92-bed behavioral health facility Willowbrooke at Tanner. 

Other Tanner services include Tanner Cancer Care, Tanner Heart Care, Tanner Urgent Care, Tanner Women’s Care, Tanner Occupational Health, Tanner Center for Sleep Disorders, Tanner Advanced Wound Center, Tanner Pain Management Center, Tanner Diagnostic Imaging, Tanner Home Health, Tanner Hospice Care and more.

Tanner also operates Tanner Medical Group, one of metro Atlanta’s largest multi-specialty physician groups, consisting of 30 physician practices with specialties in cardiology and interventional cardiology, family medicine, general surgery and breast surgical oncology, infectious diseases, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, plastic and reconstructive surgery, psychiatry, radiation oncology and vascular surgery.

Tanner employs more than 3,000 people and offers a medical staff of more than 300 physicians representing 34 unique medical specialties practicing throughout west Georgia and east Alabama.

Tanner Health System

Emory University

Graduated from the Honors CollegeMagna Cum Laude


Head of ML/AI Research and Platforms at Zappos Family of Companies

Zappos Family of Companies

Head of ML/AI Research and Platforms

Zappos Family of Companies

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Zappos Family of Companies

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Emory University

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Zappos Family of Companies

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University of West Georgia

Teaching Assistant Computer Science

University of West Georgia

Resident Assistant

University of West Georgia

Research Assistant for the Biology Department

University of West Georgia

Biology Workshop Leader

Tanner Health System

Shadowing Student

Emory University

Computer Science with a concentration in Computational Life Sciences

Master of Science (M.Sc.)

University of West Georgia

Computer Science with a Minor in Biology

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)