About Me
Professional
My career includes 20 years of individual contributor and leadership roles across the spectrum of data science, financial modeling, and business analytics for EY, PG&E, KPMG, Bloomreach, and Centene. I use tools like R, SQL, Python, git, VS Code, RStudio Server, Databricks, and Snowflake on a daily basis. My teams apply analytics and data science techniques to empower decision makers with AI tools and prescriptive business insights. As part of Centene’s AI Center of Excellence, I productionize data solutions (automation pipelines, models, web apps, simulation studies, REST APIs, etc.) to support Centene’s Quality line of business.
Data Science & MLOps Toolkit
R
: tidyverse, Quarto, XGBoost, LightGBM, Prophet, tidymodels, Torch, Keras + TensorFlow, Shiny, Plotly, Leaflet, webR, devtools, usethis, dbplyr, cli, pkgdown, renv, and moreDevOps + MLOps
: GitLab (+ CI/CD), GitHub (+ Actions/Workflows), Databricks (+ MLFlow), Docker, Posit Connect, Kubernetes, Rancher, Ubuntu, Bash, Hugging Face, LangChain, Chroma DBData
: Snowflake, Teradata, Databricks Unity Catalog, Apache Arrow, Apache Parquet, DuckDB, Polars, AWS S3, AWS Redshift, NetApp StorageGRID, Google BigQueryOther
: Python, Jupyter Lab, Agile Scrum (& the tools that surround it, e.g., Jira, Miro, etc.), ServiceNow, Netlify, Alation, Microsoft Excel
Media + Presentations
[2025-03-18] Loyola presentation: Tidymodels: A Brief Intro to Modern Modeling with R
[2025-01-29] CSU Long Beach presentation: Big Data, Tiny Laptop
[2024-04-27] UC Irvine hackathon workshop: ETL with Arrow & DuckDB
[2023-09-26] SoCal RUG presentation: Highlights from Posit’s 2023 Annual Conference
[2023-09-25] R Consortium interview: Empowering Healthcare with R
[2023-03-21] SoCal RUG presentation: Build a Shiny App Demo as a Cover Letter Accessory
[2022-12-08] Posit’s Data Science Hangout: From Excel to Machine Learning
[2021-10-15] UC Irvine panel discussion: Latinx Initiative Conference
[2021-06-09] Grid Dynamics Data Points Conference: Healthcare Finance Beyond Excel
[2019-06-13] UC Irvine’s Newsroom: Scatter Podcast launched by Merage Student
[2019-05-20] Orange County RUG: About the Predictive Modeling Hackathon Winners
[2019-04-14] Forbes mention: Scatter Podcast debut