Full-stack data scientist with deep expertise across machine learning, large-scale data systems, and applied GenAI. End-to-end — from problem formulation to production deployment.


Experience

Staff Data Scientist

Royal Caribbean Group · 2019 — Present

Data Scientist → Senior → Lead → Manager → Staff DS

  • Led growth of an internal Data Science & AI consultancy to 20+ members
  • Drove multiple GenAI initiatives — RAG, speech-to-text, entity extraction, enterprise chat app
  • Designed a customer-facing pre-cruise recommendation engine increasing revenue by 2.3% ($5M–$10M annually)
  • Managed a $10M+ ML lead-scoring pipeline improving conversion rates by 30%
  • Engineered forecasting frameworks for a 44-ship fleet
  • 2023 Circle of Excellence Award

Data Scientist

Nextera Energy · 2017 — 2018

  • Built time-series classification models for customer segmentation and energy rate optimization
  • Queried 100B+ energy records to identify faulty meters and potential fraud at scale

Data Analyst

Bayview Financial · 2015 — 2017

  • Automated manual workflows saving 200+ hours per week
  • Built financial models in VBA & C# for amortization, escrow analysis, and DSI calculations

Underwriting Assistant

Liberty Mutual · 2014 — 2015

  • Automated reporting and routine processes using VBA scripts for Microsoft Office

Education

M.S. Information Studies and Data Science

University of Amsterdam · 2018

B.S. Information Systems

Florida International University · 2014


Skills

PythonSQLJavaScriptC#PyTorchTensorFlowXGBoostScikit-learnRAGWhisperOpenAIClaudeDatabricksPySparkMLflowDockerAWS LambdaAzure DevOpsReactJSFlaskStreamlitD3.jsPower BI