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Anuj Saxena

Anuj Saxena

VP Of Data Science At SOLVE(D), An IPG Health Company
Jersey City,NJ

Summary

Data Science leader with 10+ years of full-time work experience including 3 years of experience managing advanced analytics teams. A detail-oriented, ambitious individual that is highly collaborative and works cross-functionally. An enthusiastic learner that thinks critically to solve problems and thrives in situations that lack clarity. Technical experience with building machine learning models ranging from supervised, unsupervised, ranking and language models, dealing with complex structured and unstructured data sources. Also performed duties ranging from product development, mentorship, stakeholder presentations and business pitches.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Vice President of Data Science

Solve(d), An IPG Health Company
4 2022 - Current
  • Leading the Data Science & Advanced Analytics team at IPG Health consisting of DS managers and Data Scientists.
  • Building out multi-touch attribution capabilities to assist media teams optimize media mix. Approaches include non-parametric regression and timeseries, causal inference
  • Building automated reporting solutions using Generative AI and LLM models. Approach includes using Langchain python interface, GPT4All, OpenAI modules.
  • Built language solutions to find best search keywords to bid on for Paid search marketing opportunities by leveraging and combining disparate data sources, NLP embeddings, and LLM models.
  • Built geographic marketing and media optimization tool in python to optimize geographic media heavy-ups.
  • Managed a team of data scientists, set weekly expectations, bandwidth assessment, managed requirements and provided clarity on projects, being a mentor to the larger analytics group.

Director, Data Science

Solve(d), An IPG Health Company
07.2021 - 04.2022
  • Built audience segmentation and look-alike models using clustering algorithms in Python and Pyspark for strategic audience targeting initiatives. Approaches include KMeans, KModes and Hierarchical clustering, weighted Gower distance.
  • Built geographic marketing and media optimization tool in python to optimize geographic media heavy-ups.

Associate Director, Data Science

Solve(d), An IPG Health Company
11.2018 - 06.2021
  • Built Django APIs for B2B Healthcare Data Analytics platform.
  • Created a classification model in Python to identify which Doctors are influencers in the medical space and potential followers for different clients to help with treatment advocacy and speaking engagements. Approach includes Logistic regression with L1 regularization, SMOTE (synthetic minority oversampling technique)

Manager, Data Science

IPG Health (FCB Health)
08.2017 - 11.2018

Developed lead generation metric using leading indicator website actions, generated automated weekly sales rep reports for 71 sales territories in US. This increased efficiency in the Sales team in reaching out to customers at the right time.

Data Scientist

Capgemini
08.2014 - 10.2017
  • Created pattern detection classification models to classify messy show titles
  • Created automated Data pipelines of digital web data using R and Python Pandas
  • Analyzed News articles based on user interaction and extracted relevant keywords from articles in Python
  • Utilized click stream data to analyze user behavior on NBC News websites in Hadoop
  • Used Natural Language Toolkit and Pandas to cleanse and analyze Facebook data for estimating Article reach on Social websites

Data Science Practicum Candidate

The Clorox Company
03.2014 - 06.2014
  • Created market based predictive models to estimate the sales of Clorox Disinfecting Wipes in R.
  • Web scraped Amazon reviews of Clorox disinfecting wipes and its competitors to understand consumer sentiment

Data Science Practicum Candidate

The Weather Channel And Weather.com
10.2013 - 03.2014

Built a Panel linear model to predict market-level sales soup, beer and insect spray using weather data, flu trends and other external factors. Acquired data from weather underground API to get weather variables using Python.

Education

Master of Science - Analytics

University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
07.2013 - 06.2014

Master of Science - Statistics

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Mumbai
08.2011 - 05.2013

Bachelor of Science - Statistics

University of Mumbai
Mumbai
07.2008 - 05.2011

Skills

    Data Science

Machine Learning

Team Management

Product Development

Data Engineering

Languages

Python
Excellent
SQL
Very Good
Spark
Very Good
R
Good

Certification

Deep Learning, The Data Institute, University of San Francisco

Software

Jupyter, Visual Studio Code

Google BigQuery, PostgreSQL, MSSQL

Microsoft Azure, Databricks

Timeline

Director, Data Science

Solve(d), An IPG Health Company
07.2021 - 04.2022

Deep Learning, The Data Institute, University of San Francisco

05-2020

Associate Director, Data Science

Solve(d), An IPG Health Company
11.2018 - 06.2021

Manager, Data Science

IPG Health (FCB Health)
08.2017 - 11.2018

Data Scientist

Capgemini
08.2014 - 10.2017

Data Science Practicum Candidate

The Clorox Company
03.2014 - 06.2014

Data Science Practicum Candidate

The Weather Channel And Weather.com
10.2013 - 03.2014

Master of Science - Analytics

University of San Francisco
07.2013 - 06.2014

Master of Science - Statistics

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
08.2011 - 05.2013

Bachelor of Science - Statistics

University of Mumbai
07.2008 - 05.2011

Vice President of Data Science

Solve(d), An IPG Health Company
4 2022 - Current
Anuj SaxenaVP Of Data Science At SOLVE(D), An IPG Health Company