SUMMARY:

• 13 years of professional experience as a Chief/Lead Data Scientist, Data Analyst and Business Development Manager for large scale IT Programs in Financial, Insurance, Healthcare, Education and Retail industry and both in government and private sector.
• Served as a Solution Architect for Big Data and Analytic Projects. Managed teams of data scientists, data analysts, technical developers and architects on Enterprise IT Modernization efforts including Big Data, Analytics, and Custom Development.
• Created data model, data lakes, data warehouses and worked with BI (Business Intelligence) tools to present before the executive team. Worked closely with the clients to identify business requirements and transferring them in to technical requirement.
• Drafted Data Quality Assessment Framework for SQL and NoSQL data Sets and formulated models using Data Mining and Machine Learning Algorithms. Experienced both with industrial and academic practices of machine learning algorithms.
• Worked with multiple teams and coordinated and performed testing activities. Arranged brain storming sessions and identified security control gaps per NIST 800 - 53 standard, for FedRAMP Ready and CMS (ARS 2.0) certification.
• Managed tasks in a fast-paced environment and coordinated multiple projects with maximum of 15 FTE at the same time.
• Worked as a practice area lead for the development of Big Data, Information Management, Analytics and Cloud Computing (Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Cloud Servers, Azure and Salseforce). Drafted outlines and implemented organizational data security controls (Data Masking, Data de-identification, File Encryption, volumetric encryption and other data security controls) and architected data governance rules (Including Rules of Behavior) for FISMA/FedRAMP ready and CMS approval. Provided departmental leadership and direction, developed sponsor contracts and budgets, assigned personnel, implemented and revised standard processes and procedures, and ensured efficient and quality execution of work
• Strong decision making ability with the aid of analysis, experiences, and expert judgments.
• Proven ability to collaborate successfully with cross functional, cross-regional (virtual) and cross-cultural teams
• Demonstrated strong presentation skills: one-on-one, groups and C-level executive teams inside and outside of the organization
• Developed algorithms to search terrorists and drug traffickers, to identify fraud, abuse, waste, to predict new markets and competitions and to identify KPI improvement scopes, pricing strategies and others
• In depth technical experiences in all aspects of Structured and Unstructured Data Management, Data Fusion, Application design and development (Agile and Waterfall); data profiling; Master Data Management (MDM); Big Data, data cleansing, Entity Resolution and Entity Analytics, Information / Entity Extraction; data migration and COTS Software.
• Built proof of concept systems for secure analytics platform. Established strategic partnerships with technical leadership across functional areas. Made presentation to Executive Team and external audiences as requested.
• Experienced in Project Management principals and Agile Development Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP).
• Demonstrated the ability to create new and different solutions that align to real work problems and opportunities, by formulating Secure Analytics Workbench (SAW), both for AIR’s internal users and for external clients like Centers for Medicate and Medicaid Services (CMS) and US Department of Education (DE)
• Experienced and expert in principles of machine learning, statistical analysis, predictive modelling, data mining algorithms, deep learning, anomaly detection, and mathematical segmentation. Algorithms used includes but not limited to, Artificial Neural Network (FFNN, BPNN, BNN), Regression Analysis (Logistic and Linear), SVM, SVD, Random Forest,GMM, MCA PCA, FCA, C4.5, KNN, NLP (with decision tree) Clustering and others. Done pattern recognition and analyzed trends from Big Data. Created conceptual, logical and physical data model.
• Experienced in applying Machine Learning both in structured and unstructured data for supervised & unsupervised modeling.
• Strong understanding of complex business challenges, experienced of designing scientific solutions, manipulating large data sets, using cutting edge machine learning or statistical modeling techniques and synthesizing insights
• Experienced in programming in C++/C, Java, Scala, R, Python and MATLAB

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Data Analytics/visualization tool: R, M-Plus, Microstrategy, Tableau, Pentaho, STATA, NVivo, Informatica, Hadoop, Accumulo (Google big table concept), HBase, Pentaho, Spark, Qlick, Flume, MQ Services, Sqoop, Elastic Search, MapReduce, Amazon S3, Azure, Zeppelin, Yarn

Machine Learning: Artificial Neural Network, Bayesian Network/BBN, Regression, Logistic Regression, Decisions Tree, Elastic-net regularized generalized linear models (built in R), k-NN, SVM, SVDK Clustering, Page Rank and PCA, MCA, MFC, Apriori and other data mining and ML algorithms

Tools: Visual Studio 2010, TFS, JIRA, Rally, Version1, HP ALM (Quality Center), Test Trac Pro

Programming: Python, Linux/Unix, C++/C, Visual Basic, Java, VB Scripting, HTML, Python, R

Others: SQL 2014, SQL Developer, Oracle R12, 11g, AWS East (Cloud), WinMeger, Splunk, Sort site, Azure, SharePoint (pulse, Alfresco), notepad++, SOAP UI, Putty, Salesforce Cloud, other NoSQL DB

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, DC

Senior Data Scientist

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the government clients to develop requirements and identify improvement scopes by implementing predictive models for Confidential CAP (Common Acquisition Platform) project.
• Developed an Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Framework detailing all capabilities to manage and implement Data Layer and Advanced Analytics capability and strategy that detailed how the organization needed to manage their data, this covered all aspects of EIM from Data Governance to Data Integration, to Data Cleansing and Master Data Management
• Partnered with the leadership team to identify and execute high-impact opportunities to leverage extensive data
• Achieved milestones to accomplish ultimate goal to consolidate GWCM to avoid waste and abuse.
• Developed and implemented customized Data Quality (DQ) Matrices for all the data sets related to CAP project
• Led discussions with clients to gather business processes requirements and data requirements to develop varieties of Data Models.
• Designed the Enterprise Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Data Model for ‘Bulk Data Storage System’ using Embarcadero ER Studio, the data models were designed in 3NF. Used Hive to create on the fly data modeling and data warehousing from Hadoop
• Used Tableau and Business Object (SAP)for Business Intelligence tasks (data cleaning, sanitizing, analyzing and creating dashboards) and presented before the White House by the Project In-charge of Confidential
• Drafted and reverse engineered multiple Executive dashboard for Government Wide Category Management (GWCM)
• Evaluated integration of tools and data bases ( Hue, SparkR, PySpark, R, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3 (Hadoop Based), Pentaho) and identified bottlenecks in terms of system throughputs and data transfer error and so on
• Created predictive models using, PCA, MCA, FAMD, MFA, Artificial Neural Network, regression analysis, C4.5 (decision tree), AprioriS and others. Created test data and training data. Used Pentaho to perform ETL
• Done coding in R, Scala and Python running on Spark to run customized predictive models. Co-ordinated data migration from Oracle (11g and R12) to Amazon RedShift and assessed anomalies (e.g. missing value, duplicate value )
• Supervised team of BA, Data Scientists and Data Analysts to ensure on time delivery
• Mentored junior data analysts and data scientists. Worked as a Champion Data Scientists for the team and wrote proposals
• Implemented Scrum methodology (Agile Framework) to bring team dynamics
• Architected and implemented Data Quality Assessment Framework (including dimensions, sub-dimensions )for the CAP project
• Collaborated with clinical clients to determine study timelines and milestones

Confidential

Lead Data Scientist

Responsibilities:

• Lead team of data scientists, data architect, data analysts and testes to develop an Accumulo based Data Framework for 14 DHS (including IC) agencies and 21 data sets
• Architected Data Quality Matrix (identified and mapped dimensions, sub-dimensions and criteria) and implemented Quality process for DHS Data framework to provide sanitized data to our I&A team at Booz Allen Hamilton.
• Developed a flexible scoring model based on multivariate regression analysis for Data Quality Matrix
• Identified data defect categories and developed Data Quality Matrix in association with the team to identify accuracy, completeness, breadth and depth of data. Developed training data sets to train mathematical models.
• Developed search algorithms (Brute-force search, Fibonacci Search technique, binary search methodology, Regression analysis, Decision dress (SVM) and others) to identify terrorists and drug traffickers.
• Expanded AIR’s footprint with clients like Department of Education (DE) and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), specifically in Machine Learning, Predictive Modelling, Advanced Analytics and Systems integration.
• Worked on Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Retailer Transactions (ALERT) System of US Department of Defense (DoD) for fraud detection and decision support system to monitor and track electronically conducted transactions completed by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients in authorized meal program and food retailer locations.
• Managed the Enterprise wide Data Correlation working group; in this capacity I lead the requirements gathering, design and testing activities for data correlation matching algorithm. Additional responsibilities included leading working sessions across the user community, and briefing the development contractor on the requirements and design.
• Used Business Intelligence and Data Visualization tools: Tableau, Microstrategy, Pentaho, Qlik View
• Compiled Technology growth strategy Business Development plans related to target growth markets, staffing plans, analytics tools requirement, and account Management, and presented to Firm Leaders - this is now being executed.
• Participated in writing of Business Plan to create and expand a range of Big Data, Data Fusion, and Information Management & Data Analytics Capabilities across the firm.
• This business plan detailed new technology capabilities such as Information Extraction, Data Ingestion, Entity Resolution, Geospatial Data Management, RDF Triple Stores, specialized Data Warehouse appliances’ such as Cloudera’s Hadoop and EMC’s Greenplum Data Computing Appliance DCA, Semantic Web / Ontology’s and Complex Event Processing, needed by the Firms’ clients and subsequently added as service offerings.
• Led the development of methodologies, best practices, and lessons learned based on the implementation of the aforementioned technologies that resulted in reusable Intellectual Capital for the Firm.
• Done Detailed cost estimation, project schedules, staffing plans and presented before the AIR Leaders.
• Architected “Secure Analytics Workbench”, an end to end Architecture / System proof of concept that was demonstrated to clients and firm leaders for sales to their Client Accounts. This also resulted introduction of machine learning and incorporation of static and dynamic predictive tools e.g. integration of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), BBN, KNN,
• Extensive experience on advanced statistical methods, Bayesian learning techniques, pattern recognition and outlier detection algorithms, and predictive modeling methods including clustering, decision trees, induction, naïve bayes, hiden decision tree, brute-force, GMM, regression analysis, Fuzzy C-means, K-Nearest Neighbors and random forest approaches using advanced statistical tools like R, SAS, SPSS, STATA, NVivo, Informatica and micro Strategy
• Worked with SQL and NoSQL database infrastructure including Oracle, SQL Server, Amazon S3 and Hadoop Clustering
• Used Pig for data modeling and warehousing: Yarn (at DoD), Sqoop(DHS), Flume for streaming data in to Accumulo at DHS.
• Worked as a Technical Volume Lead, Pricing Volume lead / solution architect on a $2M response for Secure Data Fusion / Analytics Platform for AIR. Developed the technical architecture and co-authored the technical sections of the response with topics covering, Information Extraction, Entity Resolution, Data Integration, Cloud Computing, and Oracle’s Analytics Products Endeca
• Design an Earned Value Management (EVM) measurement process to complete the Level of Effort (LOE) and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for project planning purposes and to track the Earned Value against the LOE
• Coordinated alliances between COTS vendors for tools such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Palantir, Informatica, InTTensity, Symantec, Microstrategy, STATA, SAS, and Teradata, SageNet and Vormetric to develop Secure Workbench Analytics
• Worked with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) by drafting initial Rules of Behavior (ROB), Data governance rules, PHI/PII and by filling up appropriate section of SSP (System Security Documents) and others, following NIST standards, for FedRAMP/FISMA and CMS security certification to generate IDIQ contracts with different Government entity
• Worked with large and complex databases containing millions to billions of records (megabyte to petabyte)
• Recommended to senior executives for improvement and development of departments. Participated in corporate strategic planning, and departmental management and budget processes, as requested.
• Ensured quality standards are met for patient data in clinical database through data cleaning processes and data audits
• Architected Master Data Management framework. Researched on healthcare environment for trends and opportunities.
• Drafted and edited artifacts like Data Tagging Workbook, Schema, ERD, Data Dictionary and others
• Engaged and collaborated among Confidential , CMS, AIR Advanced Analytics team and Marketing Team for synergies and cross pollination, development and resource efficiencies and to identify independent variables for predictive analysis
• Evaluated and used Microsoft Azure with Zeppelin Notebook

Confidential, VA

Principal Data Scientist

Responsibilities:

• Was contracted as a Technical Project Manager and then got converted as a Principal Data Scientist within 4 months
• Developed models to predict healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA)using structured and semi structured data (from Oracle DB, Mongo DB(JSON and Hadoop). Processed image, pdf, text, videos and xml.
• Led data intelligence practice with cross-cutting business and functional focus on Data Analytics and Business Intelligence.
• Peer reviewed design and development of artifacts and provided expertise on implementation of the Cognos TM 1 software.
• Participated on authoring an Enterprise Wide Information Extraction (IE) Strategy and COTS IE Evaluation Plan. The IE Strategy focused on the Extraction of 4 types of unstructured data Entities e.g. Patient identity, Places, Prescription no., service provider, Temporal / Time; Geographic; and the Relationships between those data
• As a Chief Data Scientist, I was responsible for completing a data quality assessment of several Surescripts databases and drafted data modeling, data cleansing and a data management Strategy
• Performed as a Task Lead to implement data mining algorithms predictive model and to assess data security (PII/PHI), business intelligence, and document management; e.g. Classification methods: Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, SVM, Random Forest, Neural Network (ANN), Regression methods utilized - Linear, Nonlinear, Boosted Regression Trees, ensemble methods; Clustering methods: K-means, Hierarchical Clustering, Mixture Modelling
• Additional tasks performed included weekly status reports for clients and executive team, resolving data quality issues, maintaining project hours utilized, and interfacing with client as requested.
• Drove the collection of data and refinement from multiple high-volume data sources. Researched methods to improve statistical inferences of variables across models and developed statistical, mathematical and predictive models.
• Prepared documents and made presentations to make informed, data-driven decisions to meet business objectives.
• Technologies used, included but not limited to: SQL, R, Python, NLP, Spark, Hive, Oxdata H20, MapReduce, Hadoop,
• Experienced working w/ IT to facilitate Surescripts builds to enable real time predictive analytics.
• Conducted instillation of regular business intelligence process and visualized key prioritization, velocity, quantity and frequency
• Conducted cluster analysis and Euclidean methods to build objective global segmentation models and analytics to provide Surescripts user segmentations with focused, authenticated and encrypted health care related information
• Time-series Modelling/Forecasting - AR, ARMA, GARCH, Exponential Smoothing
• Provide information and analytical support for critical decision-making with clinical, cost and care delivery data, including demand and census forecasting.Drafted predictive models to identify waste and abuse reduction waste.

Confidential

Technical Manager Data Science

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated technical architecture and authored the technical sections of the response with topics covering, Information Extraction, Entity Resolution, Data Integration, RDF Triple Store and specialized Data Warehouse appliances, e.g. Netezza
• As a Technical Project Manager, managed Data Collection, Storage & Dissemination (DCSD) and was responsible for managing a Software Development team of 12 FTEs, and two task orders (ERAS re-engineering for PDWS and DWS)
• ERAS was a program that was several months behind schedule, lacked requirements, design and software development delivery approach. Upon taking over I led a 90 day project recovery effort that assessed project health and to created revised delivery plan
• Lead teams of data analysts, quality analysts, DBAs and Developers
• Prepared presentation for Manager, Data Science, to present analytical findings to non-analytical audiences
• Led the successful delivery of on time and on budget of the project, which contained four (sub-systems) and an 11 years of Data Conversion effort from an ERAS mainframe, through Requirements, Design, Development, Testing and deployment
• Done Management of all contract modifications, funding increments, deliverables, and Bi-weekly status reporting to the Executive Committee including Program Directors, Chief Information Officer, Contracting Office (CO) and COTR.
• Coordinated weekly meetings with the Chief Information officer and Associate Directors of Operations to report status, discuss action items, risks, issue, program reviews, contractual items and delivery status.
• Managed the staffing, hiring, and project evaluations of all staff, including interviewing to ramp up and hire developer staff
• During this task order due to staffing shortages, served as the lead for the overall System Architecture and Design, Requirements, Testing (SQL based Back end test support), Configuration Management, Address Validation and Geocoding, Entity Resolution, and ETL design activities prior to hiring a lead architect and development manager.
• Performed project closeout activities, transitioned the IT system to the Operations & Maintenance (O&M Team) and transitioned the project to another project manager for Release 2.
• Authored Data Quality Plan and Legacy System Retirement Plan and co-authored the Entity Resolution Plan, these were presented to AAMC senior management with details on how the project team would address these areas.
• Coordinated Data driven and ETL (Informatica) driven development
• Developed data collection tools to clean and integrate complex datasets for users including Program directors, student applicants for admission and residence and others
• Used analytics tools to analyze and interpret large datasets on applicant’s activities (E.g. R, STATA, NVivo, Informatica)
• Performed and co-ordinated analysis of large amounts of data (i.e. transactional, click stream, social media) to build predictive models (supervised and unsupervised ) with Structured and Semi-structured data.

Confidential

Data Scientist

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 5 FTE including Quantitative Analysts and Business Analysts
• Interpreted and translated Business and System Requirements and interacted with users, product owners and developers.
• Administered business intelligence systems and done business data analysis, visualization and reporting.
• Performed End-to-end financial data flow testing and performed test data collection, integration and quality control.
• Extracted data from Greenplum, using PostgreSQL, and ran analytics to form predictive models.
• Worked with the DBAs to create Schema in Greenplum.
• Created predictive model based on Regression, Logit Regression, Random Forest and Decision Tree
• Validated of formulated model through residual analysis, R-square value analysis, normal distribution and so on
• Collected structured data from various sources, done data cleaning and created synthetic data to address missing values
• Closely communicated with the client (business team/ Product Owner) to understand business requirements and to transfer them as test cases and test steps to implement and facilitate Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Analyzed business flow of the application and used MS Project and JIRA as tracking tools
• Worked with the team from the beginning to the end of the SDLC in an agile (scrum) environment
• Wrote SQL (2008) queries for RDBMS (Oracle 10g and SQL) to update tables and pull data and performed analysis.
• Done data driven testing and Created meta data for testing purpose
• Used Informatica to perform ETL processing and Interfaced with data systems to perform focused reviews.
• Communicated defects, encountered during regression test and followed-up with developers until all issues were resolved.
• Done API testing with XML scripts, used SOAP UI and REST Client. Performed ad-hoc querieswith PL SQL
• Collaborated with Project Manager to determine data driven reporting needs and tracking measures
• Done content management by checking out/updating contents, comparing versions, merging files, editing change requests, generating reports & charts, creating & organizing requirements, etc. using Pulse and knowledge link
• Used source code control systems such as GitHub and SVN to track and verify defect fixes
• Communicated Clients on Business requirements, performed quantitative analysis and worked closely with Data Analysts to prepare presentations based on fact and figure for non-technical stakeholders
• Worked as a member of Manulife’s Business Intelligence Practice with cross-cutting Business and Functional focus on Technology Strategy & Architecture, Systems Integration, Business Analytics and Information / Data Management technologies and methodologies providing solutions. Provided expertise in both client delivery of Technology solutions and new business development and captured leadership on future opportunities.
• Analyzed business requirements to transform in to technical requirements. Created Traceability Matrix for Business requirements and test cases
• Used Cognos 8BI and Micro Strategy to analyze and present data analytics and predictive models for Business Units and relevant Stakeholders
• Used Fusion Charts to and Spreadsheet for data visualizing before the business entitiy.
• Used SQL and PL/SQL to pull data to prepare reports. Drafted Metadata for data driven testing
• Worked with the development team and test team during development and testing phase to define acceptance criteria, definition of done and to perform functional and data driven testing

Confidential

Business Development/Quantitative Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Request for Information (RFI) and Request for proposal (RFP) submitted by vendors. Identified ROI
• Worked with other Quantitative Analysts and prepared fact based presentations on sourcing and pricing. Formulated predictive models (mainly regression analysis, decision tree and P value) to develop scoring system which was used for vendor selection and analytical forecasting on product features, price, product sourcing timeline, KPI, sourcing location and others.
• Prepared monthly, quarterly and yearly reports to present facts and figures on sourcing volume vs sales volume, no. of new vendors added, costs of training and maintaining compliances, forecasting for the next business cycle and others
• Identified the correct sources of information (i.e. market reports, internet sources) and performed analysis to identify appropriate pricing strategies, warehouse stock projection and to determine vendor base.
• Collected data on external factors such as industry and market dynamics, and products/services trends and created industry & supplier cost models and TCO models. Performed supplier analysis including supplier financials and capabilities.
• Extracted data from PSS (customized ERP before they used SAP) and provided team with analytical supports as requested
• Supported collection and consolidation of data on contract compliances and supplier performances
• Supported identification of opportunities and actions for improvement by analysis of supplier KPI data
• Tracked and measured financial cost savings based on purchase variation, as well as track cost avoidance, process improvement initiatives, contributions to other markets and currency fluctuation and their impact.
• Leveraged data analytics to effectively examine and conduct surveillance of market participants in Buyer-Supplier space.
• Worked with the Business Units to understand & build business requirements into models and identified trends
• Reviewed performance of business historical data to identify significant areas of new business opportunities
• Wrote TOAD and SQL queries to extract data from the data base (oracle DB). Used Excel and MathLab to run predictive models