About Me

Hi, I'm Jay. I'm a Data Scientist, a Naval Engineer, and a Project Manager with years of experience in all three. I'm skilled in managing and developing data-science and engineering teams, organizing proposals, mentoring in and performing technical tasks (such as Statistical Modeling and other aspects of Data Analytics and Machine Learning), and facilitating Design Thinking and extracting creativity. I am a lover of efficiency and optimization and I'm rarely lacking intellectual curiosity.

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That's me - or rather a three-dimensional representation of me - in the interactive space above. It was created from data collected with a Windows Kinect and included here via some JavaScript.



Washington, DC

Washingtonian

I moved to the Washington, DC area in 2006 and have lived in many different places in and around DC since. DC has a large community of great Data Scientists and Tech Developers (see Data Community DC) and there are always opportunities to appease intellectual curiosity.


Data Science | Engineering | PM

My Three Passions

I am formally trained in Naval Engineering in addition to Applied Statistics. I also have years of experience managing technical projects and am certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) through PMI.

Skills

Experienced with R, Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Excel/VBA, PowerBI, Tableau, AWS, Ubuntu and Red Hat Linux, AutoCAD, Matlab, Blender, FastShip, HECSALV, GHS, SHCP, SDWE, and many many others. My previous clients include the US Treasury Department, the US National Institutes of Health, multiple foreign governments, the US Navy and other parts of the US Department of Defense, and a handful of commercial companies.

    Software and Systems

    * Ratings are 1 to 5 (A 1 means something along the lines of only having seen a demo or watched a lecture and
    I know the general capabilities. A 5 means that I'm an expert and would feel comfortable teaching others.)

  • Apache
    AutoCAD
    Blender
    Caffe
    DIGITS
    Excel
    Git
    Hadoop
    JMP
    LaTeX
    Linux
    MathCAD/SMath
    MATLAB/Octave
    MongoDB
    MXNet
    Node.js
    RStudio
    RapidMiner

















  • Rhino
    Shiny
    SAS
    Spark
    SPSS/PSPP
    Tableau
    Tesseract OCR
    Windows







    Programming Languages

    * Ratings are 1 to 5 (A 1 means something along the lines of only having seen a demo or watched a lecture and
    I know the general capabilities. A 5 means that I'm an expert and would feel comfortable teaching others.)


  • C and C++
    CSS
    CUDA
    HTML
    JavaScript
    MATLAB/Octave
    PHP
    Python
    R
    SAS
    Scala
    SQL
    VBA


















DATA SCIENCE

Applied Statistics

Statistics is employed in a large number of diverse fields and I've worked on a diverse set of projects - from ophthalmological drug efficacy to resource-allocation optimization to weight estimating of ships.

Programming

Most of my programming experience has involved HTML/CSS, R and RShiny, Python, JavaScript and JQuery, Matlab, SQL, and C++ but I am familiar with many many others including CUDA, PHP, and Java.

MANAGEMENT

Agile Development

Managing a development team and constructing and implementing the tools and procedures that are required takes tenacity, lots of communication, and problem-solving skills. In addition to traditional waterfall management methods, I am experienced with Agile, Lean Six Sixma, and even SAFe.

Project Management

I am a Project Management Professional (PMP) with over 14 years of experience managing government acquisition projects, leading tech teams, and facilitating proposal development.

ENGINEERING

Naval Architecture

I've worked on many ship design and construction programs such as DDG 1000, LCS, FFG(X), and T-AO 205. I've also had the pleasure of working on survivability aspects of oil rigs and spars.

IoT Hardware

"Internet of Things" (IoT) has become a familiar phrase in multiple industries. I enjoy working with microcontrollers, custom electronics, and sensor data to create "smart" networks and environments.






Some Unpublished Papers and Presentations
that I've Written (or Co-Authored):


Published Papers I've Written (or Co-Authored):


Papers Written By Colleagues and Friends:


Code Snippets:


Education

You can usually find me drinking from the proverbial firehose as I love learning new and interesting things.

B.S. OCEAN ENGINEERING

(MINOR IN ECONOMICS)
VIRGINIA TECH
AUG 2000 - MAY 2005

College of Engineering

M.S. MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
JUN 2008 - DEC 2010

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

SELF-LEARNING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

COURSERA, FREECODECAMP, AND OTHERS
CONTINUOUS

Continuous Education




“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Any sufficiently complex system acts as a black box when it becomes easier to experiment with than to understand.” Google Research


Contact

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Social Media

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