Principal ML/NLP Data Scientist Resume Dallas - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Machine Learning and NLP professional with excellent Big Data analytics, Business & IT knowledge & experience
Data Science Leader - managing a team of analytics professionals from diverse backgrounds with deep quantitative skills
Experience practicing Data Science, Business Intelligence, Predictive Analytics and Statistical Analysis
Demonstrated ability in adapting to different business models in a rapidly changing environment
Excellent communicator with great ability to explain highly technical issues to non-technical as well as Executive Management

Technical Expertise

Classical ML/NLP models: Regression & classification models tree & ensemble methods (Random Forests, Gradient Boosting) and kernel methods (SVM)
NLP: Use NLTK, Word2Vec, SpaCy, Gensim for CBOW, skip-grams, tf-idtf, LDA, or RNN LSTMs for NLP models for Entity Recog, Parts of speech, doc similarity, topic modelling, sentiment analysis, recommender & dialog systems
Image/object recognition using deep learning neural nets: (RNN,CNN,DNN,UNet/VNet), transfer learning
Google Cloud Platforms ML suite:, Vision API, Video Intelligence, Text-to-Speech, NLP API, Translation, AutoML, Dataflow, Dataproc
Extract data/work with: SQL and NoSQL, HDFS/Hadoop/MapReduce, Spark
Python, TensorFlow,, Keras, Scikit-learn, Pytorch, C/C++, Matlab, Linux
Data visualization tools: matplotlib, seaborn, ggplot, bokeh, plotty
US Patent #6978133 software algorithm for telecom network messaging solution with Lucent/Bell Labs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas

Principal ML/NLP Data Scientist

Perform end to end ML/NLP service and product development to deliver production level ML platforms, systems, and models to clients in financial institutions, insurance, medical, telecom and energy/utilities
Lead and direct technical team, providing SME support, assessing technical approach, database access, data cleaning, data analytics, feature creation, model selection & ensemble, performance metrics & visualization
Implement ML/NLP solutions for clients including models for process optimization, image detection, anomaly detection, automation/pre-emption, recommender systems, fraud detection, text/sentiment analysis, dialog systems
Design, embed/train NLP models for text, speech, natural language using NLTK, Word2Vec, SpaCy, Gensim for CBOW, skip-grams, tf-idtf, LDA, HMM or RNN LSTMs
Developed ML/NLP pipelines of large data sets, both structured & unstructured; Statistical modeling in Big Data architecture with strong understanding and proficiency of predictive modeling techniques.
Designed, trained, validated end to end ML models & pipelines for image, video, timeseries, seq2seq using Tensorflow, Keras, Pytorch to setup deep CNN, RNNs/LSTM/GRUs.
Ingested Big Data datasets from RDBMS & Hadoop ecosystems.
Performed data assessment, exploratory analyses, requirements capture (RFP/RFI).

Confidential

Technical Project Director

Recruited, developed and managed a team of 75 technical and project management resources for design, implementation, rollout of a new country wide GSM network
Delivered a managed services framework to operate the commercially launched GSM network & IT systems . Maintained all network & customer service KPIs

Confidential

Product Manager - Prepaid Software Application

Managed a $55M/year prepaid billing software product deployed in telecom service provider’s networks worldwide with a customer base of 45+ million active users within Verizon, Vodafone, Telecom Italia, Telecom NZ
Managed, directed, prioritized and budgeted new feature development by Lucent China & UK software development team.
Responsible for managing all aspects of product portfolio, and ensuring profitable revenue growth in Lucent’s Europe & Latin America customers

Confidential

Product Line Manager/Principal Software Designer

Set standards and best practices to keep code in line with customer requirements
As lead designer, successfully re-architect code achieving 15% execution efficiency.
Code group head & instructor for GSM route translation & signaling software
Expert coding in OOP language Protel (Pascal based) C,C++, Unix/Linux