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Mark J. Carlebach

Fort Belvoir,VA

Summary

Proven, creative technology leader with hands-on AI/ML skills. Able to contribute in a technical role and grow with the project and organization as needed. Very strong communicator and organizer. Easily establishes trusted relationships with senior executives. Player-coach management style.

Overview

35
35
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Head of CTFSI Labs

Cambridge Technology Financial Services, Inc.
04.2022 - 10.2024

Led a 10-person team of on-shore and off-shore data scientists and engineers to incubate new product ideas for a start-up FinTech company.

  • Developed an application for detecting invalid standing settlement instructions, enabled by a custom data pipeline, feature engineering pipeline and deep-learning classifiers.
  • Developed an application to generate a template capable of re-creating a corpus of semi-diverse documents, enabled by creative use of ML and NLP techniques (e.g., agglomerative clustering, Myers-differencing, etc.)
  • Researched advanced RAG techniques to perform Q-and-A with table-intensive documents, including use of fine-tuned, open-sourced VLMs and multi-modal LLMs
  • Flowable

Director - Applications Engineering

BNY Mellon
01.2021 - 01.2022
  • Technology manager in cloud-based application engineering team supporting BNY Mellon's Data and Analytics Solutions' ESG application
  • Focused on customer success, technology operations and production management

Managing Member - Franchise Owner

Golfcrest Drive Associates, LLC
01.2007 - 04.2018
  • Owned and operated Good Feet retail franchise, opening 4 stores in the Tampa market
  • Relied heavily on media to drive business, including heavy use of Google Analytics
  • Sold business to corporate franchisor in April, 2018

Vice President - Uniprise Technology

UnitedHealth Group
01.2004 - 01.2007
  • Worked extensively with business and technology leaders to enable UnitedHealth Group to provide its technology administrative platform as the foundation for joint ventures with Medica and Harvard Pilgrim
  • Defined architecture, conceptual designs, high level requirements, UAT strategy and implementation for $15MM integration effort that included 70+ development teams

Managing Director - Technology Division

Goldman Sachs & Co.
01.1992 - 01.2003
  • Managed 30+ person, global internal consulting team providing architecture, analysis and testing for large scale, high risk technology implementations
  • Projects involved business functions in the compliance, control and operations areas for the firm's Fixed Income and Equities derivatives and shares businesses
  • Led integrated architecture and applications development to support Equities Management, Research Sales and Equity Capital Market functions with focus on account reference data, data warehousing, management reporting, CRM, client portal and syndicated deal management
  • Built and managed 100+ global development team with users in US, Europe and Asia

Senior Associate - Information Technology Group

Strategy& (fka Booz, Allen & Hamilton)
01.1990 - 01.1992

Education

Master of Liberal Arts - Data Science

HARVARD UNIVERSITY EXTENSION SCHOOL
Cambridge, MA
01.2020

Master of Science in Engineering - Computer Information Systems

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia, PA

Master of Business Administration - Finance

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia, PA

Bachelor of Science in Engineering - Systems Engineering, Magna Cum Laude

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia, PA

Bachelor of Science - Finance, magna cum laude

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia, PA

Skills

  • Strong business and technical analyst with excellent verbal and written communications skills
  • Naturally inclusive, self-effacing and collaborative with ability to build consensus across business and technology organizations
  • Creative, passionate, and committed
  • Practical and results-oriented
  • Player-coach management style
  • Strong Python developer, capable of performing code reviews, helping with debugging and learning new tools,

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Alliance
  • Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance

Publications

  • Argmining Workshop, COLING 2020
  • Medium: Fine-tuning Bert for Multi-Label Text Classification
  • Medium: Getting Started with Weights and Biases

Timeline

Head of CTFSI Labs

Cambridge Technology Financial Services, Inc.
04.2022 - 10.2024

Director - Applications Engineering

BNY Mellon
01.2021 - 01.2022

Managing Member - Franchise Owner

Golfcrest Drive Associates, LLC
01.2007 - 04.2018

Vice President - Uniprise Technology

UnitedHealth Group
01.2004 - 01.2007

Managing Director - Technology Division

Goldman Sachs & Co.
01.1992 - 01.2003

Senior Associate - Information Technology Group

Strategy& (fka Booz, Allen & Hamilton)
01.1990 - 01.1992

Master of Liberal Arts - Data Science

HARVARD UNIVERSITY EXTENSION SCHOOL

Master of Science in Engineering - Computer Information Systems

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Master of Business Administration - Finance

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Bachelor of Science in Engineering - Systems Engineering, Magna Cum Laude

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Bachelor of Science - Finance, magna cum laude

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Mark J. Carlebach