Engineering leader and employee #9 at a Series C fintech/SaaS startup that helps financial institutions safely onboard more good customers while stopping fraud.

- Scaled the data function from Seed to Series C. Developed product roadmap; authored goals, product & engineering requirements. Sourced, hired, managed, and developed 11 engineers and analysts.

- Built performant, scalable, low-latency pipelines for training, deploying, and serving machine learning models in production.  Identified 90% of identity fraud while reducing false positives from 5 to 2% for a top 20 US bank.

- Helped launch the company’s second SaaS product, Transaction Monitoring.  Lead engineer on the data schema and ingestion module that normalized transactional data.

- Directly supported sales and growth teams with customized collateral and analysis illustrating impact on key business metrics (more good customers, less fraud, lower costs).

Director, Machine Learning & Data Analysis

Director, Data

Head of Data Science

Led the data, research & evaluation, IT, networking, assessment, student information, education technology, and state reporting teams/functions for the largest school district in New Jersey (37,000 students, 63 school sites). Responsible for a total budget of 16.2 million, with 52 employees and over 30,000 devices under management.

▪ Developed inferential and predictive models to support academic and operational initiatives including under-identification of FRL-eligible students, chronic absenteeism, and PARCC performance.
▪ Rebuilt the summer school staffing match process using a mixed-integer linear programming model that resulted in improvements in both equity, teacher/principal preference, and modeled student learning gains.
▪ Deployed, designed and maintained interactive Tableau dashboards backed by an Oracle data mart.
▪ Designed, secured funding and launched a 1:1 Chromebook computing initiative for 10,000 HS students.
▪ Delivered the cleanest State fall data submission on reco

Chief Data Officer

Led the network data and technology team, responsible for setting the team’s vision, goals, and major initiatives. Responsible for two direct reports, well over 1000 devices, maintaining multiple ed tech platforms, and a technology budget of over 750K.
▪ Analyzed school and student performance data to evaluate teacher performance and predict student state test outcomes. Create presentations for the board, network, and school leadership teams.
▪ Implemented a comprehensive math test prep strategy, including curriculum rollout, assessments, and debrief and data tracking tools for grades 3-8.
▪ Collaborated with the Superintendent and CEO to design school staffing and leadership model. ▪ Instituted a technical training and development program for the data and tech team.
▪ Authored and maintained open-source software packages written in the R programming language that facilitated analysis of both public and district-specific NY State Education Department data.

Chief Data and Technology Officer

▪ Designed and implemented KIPP NJ’s school evaluation model (School Performance Index) and associated data dashboards, giving principals and network leaders a real-time, comprehensive view of school health across instructional and operational domains.  
▪ Created performance goals, project roadmaps, and directly supervised a department of 1-3 employees on diverse strategic projects that ranged from education technology to financial modeling to teacher talent pipeline and retention analysis. 
▪ Led over 60 internal walkthrough teams that conducted rigorous reviews of every network school grades K-12, with a particular focus on school culture, climate, and classroom instruction.  Wrote formal evaluations of each school that guided school improvement efforts.
▪ Developed statistical software, analysis and visualization tools to interpret student performance data. Authored, distributed, and maintained njschooldata, a software package written in the R programming language that facilitates 

Special Projects Director

▪ Built data dashboards for network leaders, school leaders, and teachers and directed network-wide interim assessment program. 
▪ Managed network's PowerSchool student information system. 
▪ Developed and presented a two-day comprehensive data management workshop at KIPP's National School Summit.

Director of Assessment & Student Information

▪ Founding teacher-leader of Newark Collegiate Academy, a high-performing college preparatory high school serving 600 Newark students in the West Ward of Newark, NJ.

Founding HS History Teacher

▪ TFA Corps Member and Classroom Teacher: Grades 3, 4, 5
▪ Doubled number of 3rd-grade students meeting state standards in Math (33% to 69%) and English (28% to 54%). 
▪ Designed and implemented grade-wide take-home audiobook program designed to boost fluency and increase engagement for English Language Learners.

Teacher

Senior Director of Engineering, Data Ecosystem

ML/data, fintech, leadership, problem solving

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