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Ronel Sylvester

Santa Clara,CA

Summary

  • Analyzing large tables within extensive data marts [10B+ rows with multiple embedded arrays]
  • Business Intelligence (BI), Actionable Insights, Data Visualization, Machine Learning
  • Customer facing/presenting, production environment debugging, & DS operations in both fast-paced and structured environments.
  • Data science/AI blogs → Accepted into publications such as KDnuggets

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Director, Data Analytics

Media.Monks @ YouTube
04.2022 - Current
  • Predicted 8M cannibalized user interactions due to similar campaigns running at the same time which led to client implementing ML audience targeting.
  • Tracked 1M+ impressions to recommend limiting a specific audience's ad frequency by 1 impression.
  • Co-led data pipeline runtime reduction by ~1-3 hours, forecasted audience reach (Python/SQL), and analyzed marketing campaigns performance (3B+ users).
  • Responsible for leading client conversations, creating slide decks + presenting actionable insights to stakeholders, and aligning global teams to 1 goal.

Data Scientist

Predmatic
06.2020 - 04.2023
  • Worked with small [< $1M] - large [> $1B] businesses & 2 DataOps startups.
  • Built prototype Deep Learning model for genre classification based on 1000+ songs leading to a final implemented model of ~70% accuracy.

Research Assistant

Dr. Jeremy Hourigan / UCSC (EPS)
01.2019 - 12.2019
  • Developed interactive R Shiny (ggplot) dashboard UI to visualize geo-chemical data.

Education

Master of Science - Analytics - Applied Machine Intelligence

Northeastern University
09.2021

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University of California, Santa Cruz
03.2020

Skills

  • SQL (AWS Redshift, Apache Superset, PostgreSQL)
  • Python
  • Tableau/Looker
  • R
  • Excel / GSuite
  • Jupyter Notebooks

Timeline

Associate Director, Data Analytics

Media.Monks @ YouTube
04.2022 - Current

Data Scientist

Predmatic
06.2020 - 04.2023

Research Assistant

Dr. Jeremy Hourigan / UCSC (EPS)
01.2019 - 12.2019

Master of Science - Analytics - Applied Machine Intelligence

Northeastern University

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University of California, Santa Cruz
Ronel Sylvester