Jay Raval Data Scientist ML Engineer

NJ/Remote 201-***-**** adrmaf@r.postjobfree.com GitHub LinkedIn TECHNICAL SKILLS

Development: Python (NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn), MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, Access, DB2, NoSQL, R, TensorFlow, Keras, Scala, Spark, Flask, Plotly Dash, Matplotlib, Heroku, Drupal 8, WordPress, BOX, SQL, Java, HTML, XML Expertise: Data/Predictive/K-Cluster Analysis, Multivariate Regressions, Machine Learning, Random Forest, Ensemble, XGB Boost

PM: JIRA, RALLY, Bugzilla, QC/HP ALM, IBM Rational Suite, Agile, Kanban, Waterfall, Sparx EA, COTS, Erwin, Balsamiq PROJECTS

Coronavirus Mask Wearing: A comparison between “Blue” and “Red” States, Data Scientist Medium 2021

Reviewed NYTimes data to visualize the correlation of mask-wearing and Covid-19 incidences with prior election results

Code for America, Technical Project Manager/Business Analyst 2016

Managed Mentorphilly program, matching developer mentors with former inmates to improve outcomes & reentry into society

Built WordPress themes, integrating Twilio and search tools to assist mentees in searching for mentors by rank, skills, & location

EXPERIENCE

Scribble Stadium, Remote - Data Scientist 2022 - 2022

Built a reading skills product to predict stories using Tesseract modeling tools alongside front end React team

Worked with mentor to create a function to help iterate pulling images for training the model Bloomfield Public Schools, Bloomfield, NJ - Interim ES/MS Teacher 2020 - 2021

Worked as a district substitute teacher in elementary & middle schools with class sizes from 20 to gym/choirs over 100

Guided students with severe behavioral issues and children that are on the autism spectrum Scrum Master(Positions below as SM for some time 2014 – 2020) Bionexa (IT Trailblazers) 2016 - 2020

Created a Drupal platform to match users with pharmaceutical and medical vendors (facilities and providers) to drive growth

Managed 2 and 3-week dev cycles of small teams, creating wireframes, managed JIRA epics, stories, milestones, tasks

Coached team on improving agile performance, team velocity, and sprint/release progress by incorporating capacity planning

Generated Sprint reports for managers and exchanged information exchange with clients/stakeholders/vendors/product owners

Coordinated end-to-end testing, pair programming, and training to effectively delegate work according to skills and experience

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care 2015 - 2016

The company’s focus was providing various health care plans to its customers at competitive rates.

Coached new SM and trained global teams, which resulted in early delivery of project and reduced process

waste caused by lack of common understanding

Facilitating weekly walkthrough, daily stand-up & scrum of scrum meetings

Facilitated bi-weekly Sprint Review & Sprint Planning, Retrospective meetings

Coordinated technical infrastructure and software testing, lead teams of testers, and coordinate testing work

Supported and educated the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the

product backlog

Identified and remove impediments in a timely and cost-effective manner

Coordinated with various teams to identify risks and to clear roadblocks

Encouraged & guided self-organization in agile environment

Supported the Product Owner and Delivery Managers in updating the project roadmap Celgene 2014 - 2015

Started as a business analyst on Chemical Inventory Management System to identify expired chemicals, purchase new inventory

Added features to facilitate narrowing down the esteemed customers in a separate list using search options

Escalated a significant requirements issue to leadership, resulting in early project completion and positive customer feedback

Business Analyst

MetroPlus Health Plan 2013 - 2014

Drafted the Business Resumption Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan with SPOFs from stakeholder interviews/document analysis

Created use case scenarios & role hierarchy for critical/non-critical processes using Visio wireframes & PowerPoint diagrams

Requested a “Lessons Learned” document, suggesting stricter testing, error management tracing, and a traceability matrix

EmblemHealth 2011 - 2012

Facilitated Client Letter database migration, implementation, & Initial Adverse Determinations of GHI PPO/HMO/HIP letters

Wrote detailed BRDs from Business/IT walkthroughs and working with Client Letter Administrator (DBA) to identify variables

Used MaxMC and Client Letter for letter/note template generation/validation, creating traceability matrices and variable grids

Barr Pharmaceuticals 2007 - 2011

Built a templated drug product data input process with LIMS, MySQL, and GxPharma (Documentum) for analysts

Gathered stakeholder requirements via interviews, questionnaires, brainstorming, focus groups, cost/benefit, and risk analysis

Used Waterfall/Iterative SDLC methods per Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Rational Tools used during various phases

Used Microsoft Rational Rose, Visio, and other CASE Tools to create use cases, BRDs, FRDs, and logical diagrams

Led Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with management, SME, vendors, & users to get requirements to developers

Wrote Functional, Integration, Data Validation, User Acceptance, & End-To-End testing with WinRunner, Rational Robot, & QTP

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

BloomTech (Lambda School), Graduate, Part-time Program, Data Science and Machine Learning 2021 - 2022 Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM1), PMI Certified Assoc. Project Management (CAPM), Certified Scrum Master

(CSM) 2016 - 2018

Rutgers University, BS, Biology 1998 - 2001

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