expertise

Management. Program and Solutions Delivery executive and frontline leadership for Analytics at large and small (and “medium”!) financial services, digital media firms, legal services firms, and (fondly) startups.  Experienced as Mathematical Modeler, Chief Software Architect, and Project Manager.  Business, Product Development and Client Management for Analytics Software, Platforms and Managed Services.  Practice creation of “Big Data for Medium Companies”. 

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Accomplishments

·               Enterprise Analytics and Predictive Underwriting (including behavioral modeling) leadership at NUMEROUS large insurance companies (Life and Annuity lines).

·               Analytics PMO and Practice Development for Legal Counsel and Education.

·               Enterprise Architect for Analytics, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for New York City (Homeland Security 9/11 Grant recipient)

·               Successful startup partnerships and advisory and product development roles. 

·               Lead PMO and Analytics Solutions Architect for Fannie Mae, Washington, DC.

·               Over Sixty Media and Financial Services clients served (see References below).

·               Global Project and Customer Analytics Manager for SunGard Data Systems, Inc.

·               Extensive Industry Expert Committee Membership and Independent Research.

·               Numerous ($tens of millions) winning proposals and grants written. 

·               Enterprise Architecture Council Member for JPMorganChase, DoubleClick, Hearst Media, Questus, Prudential, OCME, Dennis Publishing, Merrill Lynch, Questrade, Cablevision, Fidelity Investments, Sandler O’Neill, Tilting Point Media, Marsh & McLennan/OWG, FannieMae, SunGard, Perry Capital.

Professional Experience

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insurance and LEGAL analytics management

New York Life, Prudential, scienaptic, yannacone & yannacone LLP

[2014-present]

Process and Architecture Manager for Predictive Underwriting, cross-selling, agency analyses, policy and behavior and litigation propensity initiatives via Behavioral Analytics platforms and data governance.  Model development in R/SAS and visualization tools with cloud, application, hadoop and third-party data (Acxiom, Nielsen, NPD Group, ExamOne, Milliman, LexisNexis, Deloitte, etc.).  Oversight and Leadership of complete Modeling lifecycle, including:

·               data stewardship and lineage (architecture third party data ingestion, ETL governance)

·               discovery and visualization environments (“sandbox”) and platform engineering (cloud, on-premise, Big Data, Tableau, Qlikview. Knime, SAS, SPSS, R/EMR, NoSQL, etc.)

·               target variable forensics and development

·               preprocessing (Box-Cox, normalization, outliers/spatial sign, cleansing/censoring/missing data kNN, imputation, PCA, PLS, VIF, near-zero variance, regression and multicollinearity heuristics for feature selection and dimension reduction, dummy, class centroids and moment variables insertion)

·               data splitting, resampling, cross-validation, model training performance and parameter tuning, RMSE, R-square, rank correlations (Spearman, etc.), variance-bias surfaces

·               classification modeling (logistic regression, propensity models and matching, discriminant analysis, SVM, naïve bayes)

·               linear regression (OLS, quadratic, PLS, Ridge Regression, Lasso/elastic net). non-linear (deep learning ANNs, GAs, MARS, kNN) and tree-based /GLM CART and ensemble modeling (bagged trees, random forests, (gradient) boosting, cubist)

·               other machine learning algorithms (GAs, H/CRFs, EM, HMM/MEMM, lexical tagging and natural language parsing)

·               model validation, sensitivity, fitness, simulation, mortality studies, ROC curves, profitability, etc.

·               Scoring Engine development (custom, deploy R, PMML, Pattern/Cascading, Adapa) and operational services

·               auditing and model maintenance, visualization, decision support and data marts.

Ediscovery, Technology Assisted Review and Predictive Coding for litigation support, investigation, and document review and discovery for multiple law firms and projects.

Advanced Underwriting Rules Engines and “TeleApp” data management SDLC.  Enterprise Architecture and Digital / Media data integration group.

Liaison to Executive committees and CIO “Roundtables”.

chief predictive/behavioral analytics data scientist statistical modeler

consumer, gaming and digital media marketers

[2013 – 2015]

Clientele Include: Tilting Point Media, Itemize/Barclays Bank, Questus Inc., NBC Universal, Nielsen Ratings / G4 Analytics, Halyard Investment Partners, Empirisoft, Oliver Wyman Group. 

Analytics leadership for Media firms, including agency, digital, print, marketing, social and search) software and analytics delivery.

·               Data Scientist for Mobile Game development partner  (clients include Electronic Arts, Harmonix).  Automation of Data and Analytics collection, classification and processing for app store optimization; app/game usage event messaging; social networks; market campaigns, ad networks, gaming APIs (including Singular, Chartboost, Unity, Mixpanel, AppFigures, LeanPlum, Apsalar, etc.).  Real-time bidding (RTB) and programmatic advertising client software in C++ (Google DoubleClick Ad Exchange).  LTV, ROI and behavioral measures and time series modeling.

●        Product Development of eReceipting platform, cloud-based services (bought by Barclays Bank), and attending web and mobile applications (iOS, Monotouch).

●        Programmatic Advertising, Multichannel Responsive web and app architecture for Universal Orlando vacation planning digital property.

●        Technical Due Diligence for Digital Media Private Equity firms.  Clickstream, time series, and complex network analytics.  Data Modeling and implementations in R/Splus, SQL Server and KDB+.  Mergers and acquisitions integration fitness and valuation. Social Networking metrics and architecture design incorporating affiliate marketing data collection as well as Google analytics, Adwords, FacebookAPI, Webtrends, Coremetrics, iOS, Android and Windows Mobile App, predictive modeling and buyer behavior models, and data auctions. 

forensic, CRIME SCENE OPERATIONS and case analytics chief architect

office of the chief medical examiner for new york city

(U.S. Department of Homeland Security Grant)

[2011 – 2014]

Member of Advisory Board.  Accountability to the Mayoral Office of New York City, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (for disaster operations), and NYPD (for Missing Persons).

Operational, Application and Data Architecture for:, Medico-Legal (crime scene) Investigations, Disaster Incidents, Body Part, Decedent, Material and Evidence Chain of Custody, Pathology, Forensic Bio, Identification, Anthropology, Missing Persons (with NYPD), Communications and Transportation.

Analytical models for NYPD Missing Persons clustering (k-means, kNN with advanced, proprietary distance functions (e.g. Minkowski entropic)), antemortem/postmortem (“propensity”) matching and body identification, time series and regression analyses of case arrivals, operational and management metrics, system utilization, among others.  Application sourcing transition leadership.  SIDS/SUID Research.

enterprise risk and analytics architect / product and services

financial services and quantitative risk software firms

[2006-2011]

Clientele Include: Perry Capital, Sandler O’Neill and Partners, BMO, Maltese Capital, FannieMae, Guardian Investments, Questrade IQ, Oliver Wyman Group, IS Group, Barclays Bank, DAC, Man Financial.

PMO and Architecture leadership for Financial Services (hedge funds, banks, exchanges, brokers, software firms).

●        Auction and Bank IPO delivery platforms in C#.NET.

●        Analytics platform for web / app purchase & behavior models.

●        Core Architecture and Delivery team member (one of four) for FannieMae Enterprise (wide) Architecture (software, delivery, Testing as a Service, and Cloud Infrastructure).

●        Instrument trading, execution, reporting and analytics architecture for industry leading online broker.

●        Strategic Sourcing for upstream procurement activities including supplier evaluation and selection, RFI/RFP processes, quantifying and reducing supply risk, negotiating and managing contracts, tracking ongoing supplier and category-level performance, and monitoring downstream procurement (requisitioning, ordering, payment processes). 

●        Business Intelligence architecture and development and Business Process Management for large Asset Managers.

●        Application functionality clustering and matching skills clustering, and assessments for cluster application sourcing Suitability (technical, business, and strategic), Readiness, and Risk Profile.

sungard data systems

global solutions manager, Enterprise Architect, and PMO director

[2002 – 2006]

Executive Management, PMO and Architecture Council Member overseeing over $100MM in annual software and service delivery globally to financial services and media clients.

●        Established global PMO for delivery and professional services, including standardized offshoring models and ratecards.

●        PMO initiation, evangelization, and implementation for PMBOK-based process models and complete metrics-based risk assessment framework.

●        Lead architect for compliance and regulatory benchmarking (client facing) projects, (STAC, ORX and Kriex based) and business process reengineering for operation risk metrics. 

●        J2EE Architect for NYBOT eCOPS project  (www.nybot.com/pressRelease,asp?releaseID=485), commodity exchange and cash market content, document management and supply chain integration. 

●        Enterprise Architecture on CSA program, SOA and ASP based APIs in C#.NET, C++, and Java.  Peer review of 4-level standardization, code reviews of architecture and FLOSS-based methodology for trading, data feed, and analytics.

Clientele:  JPMorganChase, Wachovia, TIAA-CREF, Citigroup, New York Board of Trade, Meridian, Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, AlphaMetrix LLC, Lattice Trading, Pentwater Capital, New Vernon Capital.

additional employment and clientele

JPMorgan, Halyard, Bigler Investment Management, Doubleclick, Yannacone and Yannacone, Mathematical Sciences Corp., Ross School, Ross Institute, Cablevision Systems, Micro Focus, Health Services Software Inc., Micro Focus, The Shareholder Services Group, The Leverage Group, New York Life, Hearst Business Media, North Atlantic Life Insurance Company, Sun Life, John Hancock, Chemical Bank, Chase Bank.

Education

Stony Brook University

§ PhD candidate, Applied Mathematics, Stony Brook University, current.  Research in Agent Based Time Series and Liquidity / Market Microstructure Risk Models for Financial and Media Markets, and Complex Networks; under Pradeep Dubey, Yale University, Coles Foundation; and Robert Frey, Renaissance Technologies.

§ Post Graduate research in Quantitative Finance, Computer Science, Mathematics, Game Theory, Complexity Theory, Music Theory, and Economics, SUNY Stony Brook, 2005-2008.  GPA 3.7.

§ 99.9 %-ile standardized tests.  Member of OATH and ISPE.

§ BS, Statistics, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1987.

§ Society of Actuaries Exams 100 (Calculus & Linear Algebra), 110 (Probability & Statistics), 160 (Interest Theory).

§ MBA Internship, Venture Capital Research, Bigler Investment Management Co.  Graduate Assistantship in Dept. of Public Administration at U. Connecticut.

skills and TLAs

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