CHAREE PETERS
Data Scientist
Madison,WI
Summary
Astronomer turned data scientist that is accomplished in gathering, transforming, cleaning and organizing complex data for use by technical and non-technical personnel. Advanced understanding of statistical, algebraic and other analytical techniques. Skilled in time series analysis, clustering and predictive modeling, model feature creation and hardening, data mining and quality analytics. Demonstrated success in growing a team, managing, and mentoring data scientists. Eager to bring expertise to growing organization in challenging new role.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
14
14
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Head of Data Science
Veda (previously Known As VEDA Data Solutions)
Madison, WI
09.2020 - Current
- Began as a junior data scientist and grew into a leadership position, including managing a team of five and working with other department heads/leads/executives to define and guide the company.
- Provide comprehensive analysis and recommend solutions to address complex business problems and issues using data from internal and external sources and appling advanced analytical methods to assess factors impacting growth and profitability. Projects include creating prototypes of dashboard measurements of product performance, and helping design new products and tools for a data pipeline.
- Compiled, cleaned and manipulated data for proper handling. Projects include writing 'translators' to standardize hand-typed healthcare data, identifying and remedying translation/standardization/data quality issues and errors (including geocoding locations, data semantics, mistyped/misspelled information, etc.).
- Implemented randomized sampling techniques for data quality checks (both automated and human-checked) and model improvement.
- Most work completed with AWS cloud and serverless resources including S3, DynamoDB, and SageMaker.
- Managing a team of data scientists. Coached, developed and motivated team members, providing coaching and mentoring to junior data scientists and software developers on data mining techniques and performance measurements, defined projects and tasks on short and long timelines, creating and documenting processes for new and existing procedures, hiring, performance reviews, and other managerial tasks.
- Experience working with shifting priorities and juggling multiple projects, having client-facing meetings, and working on creation of new products/ideas and/or deprecated code/systems.
Data Scientist
STEALTHbits Technologies (now Netwrix)
Madison, WI
02.2019 - 12.2019
- Real-time threat detection and response using time-series analysis and anomaly detection.
- Upgraded Python scripts (2.7 to 3.6) and maintained the code base.
- Made recommendations on algorithm model and feature changes to help scale and harden the current system.
- Worked part-time (~15 hours/week) while finishing my PhD.
Research Assistant
University Of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI
01.2013 - 01.2019
- Thesis was focused on time series analysis of radio variable and transient sources (e.g. active galactic nuclei, supernovae, tidal disruption events, and other phenomena) using CHILES and the evolution of environments of gamma-ray bursts with associated supernova systems from non-detections of radio emission.
- Wrote successful grants for funding and observational time at multiple observatories, including radio observations, infrared, and optical.
- Image cleaning and processing using CASA, python, and IRAF
- Developed a time series analysis pipeline for analysis of over 300 sources in an image, looking for changes in brightness in cadences spanning from seconds to years.
- Applied advanced statistical measurement and analysis to detect and quantify transient and variable sources.
Education
Ph.D. & MS - Astronomy
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI 09.2013 - 12.2019
Fellow -
LSSTC Big Data Science Fellowship Program
01.2016 - 01.2018
Master of Arts - Physics/Astronomy
Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program
Nashville, TN 08.2011 - 08.2013
Bachelor of Science - Physics, Math, German, Astrophysics
University of Denver
Denver, CO 09.2007 - 06.2011
Skills
Python
Timeline
Head of Data Science
Veda (previously Known As VEDA Data Solutions)
09.2020 - Current
Data Scientist
STEALTHbits Technologies (now Netwrix)
02.2019 - 12.2019
Fellow -
LSSTC Big Data Science Fellowship Program
01.2016 - 01.2018
Ph.D. & MS - Astronomy
University of Wisconsin - Madison
09.2013 - 12.2019
Research Assistant
University Of Wisconsin - Madison
01.2013 - 01.2019
Master of Arts - Physics/Astronomy
Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program
08.2011 - 08.2013
Bachelor of Science - Physics, Math, German, Astrophysics
University of Denver
09.2007 - 06.2011
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