Senior data analytics leader with 15+ years of experience spanning financial services, quantitative marketing, and academic research. Specializes in causal inference, hierarchical Bayesian modeling, A/B testing, and proactive retention modeling. Builds production ML pipelines on Snowflake and Posit Workbench (R/Python on AWS), and is at the leading edge of applying agentic AI (LangGraph, MCP, Claude Code) to analytics workflows. Academic foundation spanning analytics, philosophy, and comparative religion brings a distinctive rigor to causal reasoning and applied model design.
Director, Senior Lead Data Analyst at TIAA. Specializing in causal inference, advanced retention modeling, and deploying agentic AI systems (Claude, Snowflake, MCP) to analytics workflows. Previously Quantitative Marketing Analyst at Bank of America and Research Associate at Harvard Business School.
M.S. in Analytics from Georgia Tech (2021) · M.T.S. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School (2012) · B.A. in Philosophy and Religion from Furman University (2009).
Currently working through the following volumes:
An integrated history of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age (1865–1896), detailing the clash between the post-war free-labor vision and the rapid rise of corporate power, industrialization, and inequality.
A definitive collection of short stories by one of science fiction’s most demanding writers, showcasing his intricate puzzles, unreliable narrators, and profound literary style.
A landmark satirical novel set during WWII that exposes the absurdity of military bureaucracy through the paradox of a rule where sanity is proven by wanting to get grounded, and fitness to fly is proven by flying.
A history of scientific progress told through seventeen equations—ranging from the Pythagorean theorem to Black-Scholes—highlighting how mathematics underpins our daily lives and technology.
A record of where I've worked and what I built there.
Publications, case studies (Harvard Business Publishing), and independent analytics platforms.
Curated AI-news aggregator: pulls items from AI blogs and Hacker News RSS feeds into a DuckDB/parquet store and generates a simple static website hosted on GitHub Pages.
Interactive map of food-service inspection grades across Charlotte/Mecklenburg County, NC, backed by scraped public inspection data, plus a live MCP server over the same dataset.
End-to-end sports analytics platform built on a DuckDB/parquet data lake, with R-based ingestion and a Python modeling/dashboard layer.
Bayesian logistic regression model using KenPom ratings to predict NCAA tournament outcomes.
A friendly, public meal-planning web app built on USDA FoodData Central. Users build a day of meals around calorie/macro targets with allergen filters, UPC lookup, and shareable links.
Examines machine-learning-derived ‘clean’ financial statement data; published in Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) and used in HBS MBA courses.
Covers equity valuation and corporate governance defenses during a hostile takeover bid; published in HBP and used in HBS MBA courses.
Examines the financial, regulatory, and societal implications of Walgreens’ proposed tax inversion following its merger with Alliance Boots; published in HBP.
Video supplement examining retail store competition, execution, and strategy in Mexico; published in HBP.
Directed an on-location film crew in India documenting a local cell phone retailer, focusing on aligning district managers and store teams; published in HBP.
Real-time telemetry and developer telemetry diagnostics.
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Interests and pastimes outside of data science and quantitative analytics.
✅ The French Connection - William Friedkin
☐ Thief - Michael Mann
☐ The Keep - Michael Mann
✅ Heat - Michael Mann
☐ The Last of the Mohicans - Michael Mann
☐ The Insider - Michael Mann
☐ Ronin - John Frankenheimer
☐ Used Cars - Robert Zemeckis
☐ Rope - Alfred Hitchcock
☐ Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock
☐ North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock
☐ Alligator - Lewis Teague
☐ The Duellists - Ridley Scott
☐ The Last Duel - Ridley Scott
☐ The King - David Michôd
☐ Color Out of Space - Richard Stanley
☐ Five Deadly Venoms - Chang Cheh
✅ Akira - Katsuhiro Otomo
☐ The Andromeda Strain - Robert Wise
☐ High and Low - Akira Kurosawa
☐ The Adventures of Tintin - Steven Spielberg
☐ Zodiac - David Fincher
☐ Broadcast News - James L. Brooks
☐ The Lost City of Z - James Gray
☐ Twelve O’Clock High - Henry King
✅ The Memphis Belle - William Wyler
☐ The Dam Busters - Michael Anderson
☐ Chimes at Midnight - Orson Welles
✅ Barbarian - Zach Cregger
✅ 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - Nia DaCosta
☐ The Lighthouse - Robert Eggers