I am a seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience in new product and business development, strategy consulting, and data science. I bridge the gap between business leadership and hands-on technical work, particularly in the realm of data science. I have experience with data preparation, data exploration, unsupervised and supervised machine learning, neural networks and statistical analysis. I have proficiency with cutting-edge tools, languages and frameworks including Hadoop, Apache Spark, R, and Python. I've built award-winning models that range from predicting the impact of weather on store sales at a major retailer to predicting crop yields by analyzing satellite images of farms....