Scott Fincher

Leading the Community Team in KNIME's Evangelism group, I like to say my job was to help people, regardless of their background, to use KNIME Software better. My team was responsible for:

• Providing a virtual space for problem solving via the KNIME forum (forum.knime.com), and connecting users to support
• Organizing awards programs to honor and recognize key community members, and build them into champions for KNIME Software
• Monitoring feedback from users and relaying that to the product team in the form of bug reports and feature requests, to ensure the voice of the community was being heard
• Coordinating events and meetups for our users to gather together

Apart from those tasks, I also had the opportunity to provide practical instruction and training through a variety of approaches:

• Teaching KNIME courses, both on-site and virtual
• Presenting at conferences (both KNIME Summit, and external practitioner and academic conferences)
• Hosting webinars on trending data science topics and new KNIME Software features
• Leading workshops to provide hands-on activities for both new and experienced data scientists
• Recording educational and marketing videos to unpack analytics themes and features of interest in KNIME

• Conducted dozens of numerical modeling projects as primary team member
• Managed projects up to $120K in size
• Led company cloud computing efforts involving tens of thousands of model runs, hundreds simultaneously
• Authored multiple studies published for US Dept. of Transportation and National Academy of Sciences
• Performed testing and QA of EPA's MOVES model during its development, and contributed to numerous supporting studies
• Developed and presented model training materials to clients

• Led dozens of air dispersion modeling analyses for petrochemical, electrical generation, lumber, and US Military facilities
• Performed deposition and dispersion modeling in support of indirect risk assessments
• Processed and analyzed meteorological data