James Snay
Charlotte,NC
Summary
Strategy-driven data scientist with nearly ten years of experience across several roles as an individual contributor, team leader, manager, and consultant. Proven ability to lead and develop teams of data scientists and analysts. Adept at working with stakeholders at every organizational level to discover value-add opportunities and solve complex business problems. Thrives in environments with end-to-end responsibilities where technical and soft skills can be leveraged to ensure the optimal design, production, and implementation of a solution.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Principal Consultant
NYS Department of Health
Albany, NY
10.2020 - Current
- Oversee end-to-end development of solutions focused on business problems. or potential value-add areas, identified while consulting with C-suite and other stakeholders within overall Medicaid Enterprise
- Build highly-accurate forecasting models for several budget areas within Medicaid using approaches that mitigate the immediate and downstream effects of the COVID-19 pandemic to achieve realistic cost predictions in forthcoming years
- Continuously identify new areas for Medicaid Inspector General investigation by creating outlier/fraud detection models across several verticals (one of which has identified over $40 million in suspicious activity and has resulted in multiple ongoing investigations)
- Productionalized a stratification process for classifying Medicaid members using a series of algorithms based on their demographics and Medicaid-specific data points, which is now the default method for multiple teams to forecast spend and other metrics
Chief Data Scientist
DarkWatch
Jensen Beach, FL
06.2021 - 09.2023
- Facilitated company shift from Software-as-a-Service to Data Productization business model which focused on gathering, curating, and enhancing data for suspected illegal businesses and individuals involved in human trafficking and other criminal activities
- Worked with Microsoft Azure to create a robust data scraping and ETL toolset which increased our data gathering capabilities by roughly 20x and resulted in obtaining several contracts with private and public sector organizations
- Created risk-scoring algorithms for state and federal law enforcement agencies, financial institutions, and social media platforms to identify potential illegal activity and allow flagging of users/clients based on custom rules engines
- Built a global search tool allowing team members to perform keyword searches against company's combined data holdings without needing SQL or other programming knowledge
Lead Experimentation Data Scientist
Spectrum
Denver, CO
03.2019 - 12.2021
- Successfully increased growth and throughput of nascent Experimentation team by assisting in the hiring of 10+ scientists and engineers while concurrently developing roadmaps for optimizing processes and fostering cross-team adoption
- Leveraged cloud and on-prem technologies to automate analytic experimentation outputs and productionalize predictive models across multiple LOBs
- Consistently worked with database tables exceeding 10TB and applied advanced data curation methods to create useable datasets for analytics and downstream data deliverables to BI/Product teams
- Oversaw 100+ ABn experiments over two-year period while also leading multiple trainings which certified stakeholders across all LOBs to design and launch their own experiments
Manager, Data Scientist
World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.
Stamford, CT
04.2018 - 03.2019
- Mentored junior data scientists and managed offshore analytics team as the Data Science Lead for Behavioral Marketing
- Significantly increased visibility into long-term potential for millions of customers by creating actionable, personalized strategies as product owner and principal developer of Customer Lifetime Value model which forecasted revenue and other behavioral metrics
- Strongly impacted 'voice of the customer' analysis using NLP models to scrape social media data and create sentiment statistics
- Optimized marketing spend and resource allocation by creating marketing-mix models and look-a-like audiences, derived from internal and third-party demographic data, identifying ideal customers across company LOBs
Data Scientist
Integrative Nutrition
New York, NY
11.2015 - 04.2018
- Created integrated workflows and automated solutions to improve transparency and efficiency across departments for processes
- Introduced machine learning to company by creating models to predict marketing campaign performance, forecasted sales, and customer service needs
- Designed and maintained multiple Tableau and QlikView dashboards for stakeholders and executives which showcased company and department-specific KPIs
- Project manager for full-scale cloud migration to AWS
Education
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) -
05.2019
Bachelor of Science - Actuarial & Mathematical Sciences|Economics
12.2014
Skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with strong passion for mentoring and empowering team members and direct reports
- Strong ability to bridge gaps between stakeholder groups to foster collaboration and project buy-in across organizational levels
- Expert in full-cycle ABn experimentation for marketing initiatives, new feature implementations, and customer retention/engagement strategies
- Advanced mathematical and statistical knowledge with extensive practice in building, testing, and productionalizing machine learning models with strongest expertise in time series/predictive modeling, fraud/outlier detection, and scoring algorithms
- Adept at working with big data (100B rows) and applying general data science skills to ensure data integrity and usability
- Proficient with wide array of pertinent languages and technologies such as R, SQL, Python, Spark, Scala, Hive/Hadoop and AWS/GCP stacks
Timeline
Chief Data Scientist - DarkWatch
06.2021 - 09.2023
Sr. Principal Consultant - NYS Department of Health
10.2020 - Current
Lead Experimentation Data Scientist - Spectrum
03.2019 - 12.2021
Manager, Data Scientist - World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.
04.2018 - 03.2019
Data Scientist - Integrative Nutrition
11.2015 - 04.2018
Project Management Institute - PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP),
University At Albany - Bachelor of Science, Actuarial & Mathematical Sciences|Economics
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