Data Scientist
Saint Louis, MO
Top Skills
Data Science
Analytics
Mathematics
Data Visualization
Senior Management/Leadership
Python
Unit Testing (coverage, nosetests)
Data Science Microservices
Technologies used
Git
Bitbucket
Gitlab
Jenkins
SonarQube
Cosmos DB
Mongo DB
Vertica
Amazon Redshift
DBeaver
AWS Athena
Confluence
JIRA
VSTS (now Azure DevOps)
Bitbucket
Docker
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
VS Code
SPSS
Figma
Tableau
Power BI
AWS Quicksite
ThoughtSpot
CSS
HTML
JSON
XML
YAML
I'm a data scientist who loves to learn and help others grow. I am highly attentive to details while still maintaining the big picture view of what I'm working on.
I love solving problems, identifying places where projects may fail, and coming up with solutions to fix issues before they occur.
I've got strong analytical and communication skills. My time teaching college-level mathematics and statistics prepared me to communicate highly technical subjects to audiences of all levels.
During my career, I've had the opportunity to build a data science team from the beginning stages at an organization three times. This included, but was not limited to:
Building up the data science team
Identifying toolsets (coding, code management, deployment, model evaluation and monitoring)
Defining coding workflow, architecture, and standards
Developing team strategy and roadmap
Gaining organizational and client trust in data science
Attention to detail
Great documentation
High quality code
Explainability
Actionable analytics
A collaborative team that shares knowledge
The ability to be creative and experiment
Work-life balance
Encourage continued learning, development, and knowledge sharing
Feedback style tailored to the team member's learning style
Encourage asking questions
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AI Product Lead & COO (Sep 2025 - present)
Director of Data and Operations (Feb 2024 - Sep 2025)
- Serve as a strategic right hand to executive leadership, leading cross-functional initiatives across operations, product development, marketing, and client delivery.
- Drive company-wide execution by translating high-level vision into structured processes, clear deliverables, and scalable systems.
- Lead solution design across UX and product, shaping user flows and requirements that align technical execution with business needs.
- Define the company’s external voice and positioning through thought leadership content, sales collateral (e.g., SOWs, 2-pagers), and strategic messaging.
- Oversee data governance, analytics strategy, and operational tooling to support informed decision-making and organizational alignment.
- Built and scaled the QA function, establishing testing frameworks and quality standards to ensure reliable product performance.
- Operate across silos to bring cohesion, clarity, and momentum to company priorities.
Director of Product, Data (Oct 2023 - Feb 2024)
- Develop and define feature requirements for data-related product features.
- Product-engineering liaison to ensure all product requirements provide the data and detail necessary to convert product ideas into technical requirements.
- Developed and presented comprehensive research reports to Medicaid pharmacy leadership based on the thorough cleaning and analysis of Medicaid data. The reports highlighted key insights into recipient health and wellness, provider behavior changes, and drug utilization related to the implementation of a new Albuterol Medication Policy.
Data Pillar Lead (Aug 2022 – Nov 2022)
- Provide Codility with the end-to-end data vision, strategy, governance, and data-related feature development with a continued focus on maintaining high integrity data, developing insightful models and analytics to guide stakeholders with clear, meaningful insights to assist in making data-informed decisions, and supporting self-service data exploration with human-centered data and globally defined, consistent metrics.
Data Science Team Lead (Jan 2022 – Nov 2022)
- Built data science team and defined end-to-end data science workflow
- Extract insights using Codility’s vast history of data to build models and product features to add product personalization, reduce manual effort, and provide additional signals to Codility users to help them make the best decisions in their hiring efforts. Assist internal Codility stakeholders when problems benefiting from data science models and services can aid data-driven decision making and reduction of manual effort.
Leading team of data scientists to build the future of data science and machine learning at MedeAnalytics by working with product owners to create product specific data transformations, algorithms and models, dashboards, and reports, as well as developing, deploying, and maintaining all data science components and microservices.
Building models through the entire workflow (including but not limited to): problem definition, data cleaning and de-identification, data exploration, feature engineering, model development and evaluation, model deployment and continued management, data visualization and story telling.
Ensuring quality models through in-depth peer reviews, SonarQube, and thorough unit testing.
Continued model evaluation throughout the lifecycle of the model.
Data Science Team Lead (Jul 2015 - Apr 2018)
Backend Development Team Co-Lead (Feb 2017 - Aug 2017)
Core Team Technical Product Owner (Aug 2017 - Apr 2018)
Mathematician
Statistician
Data Analyst
Data Scientist
Analytical Tools Developer
Courses taught:
- Abstract Algebra
- Multivariable Calculus I & II
- Statistical Methods and Theory I & II (new courses Dr. Pitlyk created for the department)
- College Algebra
Fully responsible for course material creation, teaching, and grading.
Courses taught:
- Elementary Statistics with Computers, Math 130 (Fall 08, Spring 09, Summer 09, Fall 09, Spring 10)
- PreCalculus, Math 141 (Spring 07)
- College Algebra, Math 120 (Fall 05, Fall 06, Summer 07, Spring 08)
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics
Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Nu
Bachelor in Science (B.S.), Mathematics; Minor in Statistical Theory | Summa Cum Laude
Minor: Statistical Theory
Activities and Societies: Alpha Chi National Honor Scholarship Society, Golden Key National Honour Society, Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematical Honor Fraternity