Resume

Work Experience

Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Kansas City, KS (Remote)
Data Scientist, June 2022 – present

Costco Wholesale, Issaquah, WA
Data Scientist, December 2017 – May 2022
Data Quality Developer, July 2015 – December 2017

ServiceNow, Kirkland, WA
Software Development Engineer, May 2012 – July 2015

MFTransparency, Lancaster, PA (Remote)
Web Application Developer, July 2011 – May 2012

Penn State, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dept., State College, PA
Senior Research Assistant, July 2009 – July 2011

MetaMetrics, Durham, NC
Software Engineer, February 2006 – January 2009

University of West Bohemia, Center for Applied Cybernetics, Pilsen, Czechia
Academic Researcher, July 2005 – January 2006

The Open University, Knowledge Media Institute, Milton Keynes, England
Visiting Research Student, March 2004 – August 2004

Publications

The Friendly Guide to Data Science: Everything You Should Know About the Hottest Field in Tech by Kelly P. Vincent, Apress (forthcoming, 2025)

Technical Education

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (Remote)
Doctor of Technology, August 2024 – present

University of Washington, Professional and Continuing Education, Seattle, WA (Remote)
Machine Learning Certificate, 2021
Data Science Certificate, 2017

University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL (Remote)
B.A. Mathematical Sciences, 2014

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ (Remote)
M.S. Information Systems, 2004

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
M.Sc. Speech and Language Processing, 2003

Certifications

Microsoft Certified

Azure AI Fundamentals, H598-7313 (Dec. 2020)
Azure Data Fundamentals, H588-1026 (Dec. 2020)
Azure Data Scientist Associate, H514-5060 (Sep. 2020 – Sep. 2022)
Azure Data Engineer Associate, H492-1461 (Aug. 2020 – Aug. 2022)
Azure Fundamentals, H295-1965 (Dec. 2019)

Patent

Fingerprint-based configuration typing and classification (US10210351B2)

Primary Skills

Python, SQL, machine learning, natural language processing, communication, writing