Jared Andrews
Raleigh,NC
Summary
Hardworking and analytically-minded Machine Learning graduate with real-world experience in using statistics and machine learning to extract actionable insights from data. Experienced in developing and deploying end-to-end machine learning pipelines using modern tech stacks. With a continual-growth mindset, enjoys independent learning opportunities and applying these skills in a professional context. Effective communication and leadership skills developed in a wide array of team settings.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Data Scientist
ComponentWise Solutions
06.2023 - Current
- Senior consultant for the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Transformation Science Services team, helping provide AI-powered services to the facilitate the legal immigration process
- Lead development of named entity recognition application enabling automated targeted name and DOB harvesting from immigration documents, decreasing the entity extraction process cycle time by 140%
- Implemented audio and text translation solution using Azure services allowing real-time translations during immigration interviews
- Engineered process for developing Transformer-based models for document classification, enabling identification of unstructured, text-based document types
- Contributed to analysis of document classification and text classification comparing performances of specific AWS/Azure offerings compared to general LLMs (specifically GPT-4)
Data Scientist
IBM
01.2021 - 05.2023
- Lead expansion efforts of IBM's global hardware pricing ML application, which was responsible for a 30x reduction in deal cycle times, increased deal win-rates and improved gross profit margins
- Devised and implemented new pricing approaches using gradient boosted quantile regression and probabilistic regression, which led to increased model performance and 20x volume reductions in ML models
- Developed and refined hardware maintenance models that were responsible for reducing the need for the manual pricing of hardware maintenance service agreements
- Optimized deal similarity application that enabled business sales groups to make more informed pricing decisions via easy access to similar historical deals
- Built out the model development portion of MLOps process (optimize source SQL queries, refactor online/offline code bases, update hyperparameter tuning to use Optuna framework, develop standard model evaluation process across independent models)
Data Science Intern
IBM
06.2020 - 12.2020
- Developed Publication/Subscription messaging service using Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and Docker so that internal applications could communicate more effectively
- Established data model for topics within Apache Kafka to ensure smooth flow of data from producer to consumer
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science, Machine Learning Specialization
Columbia University
New York, NY05.2023
Bachelor of Science - Data Science And Probability & Statistics
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA12.2020
Skills
- Machine Learning (Pytorch, XGBoost, Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn)
- Deep Learning
- Statistical Analysis
- Programming Languages (Python, R)
- SQL
- Git
- MLOps (MLFlow, Kubeflow, Databricks)
- Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Timeline
Senior Data Scientist
ComponentWise Solutions
06.2023 - Current
Data Scientist
IBM
01.2021 - 05.2023
Data Science Intern
IBM
06.2020 - 12.2020
Master of Science - Computer Science, Machine Learning Specialization
Columbia University
Bachelor of Science - Data Science And Probability & Statistics
University of California, San Diego
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