ROBERT LAKE

ady08a@r.postjobfree.com • 919-***-**** • LinkedIn • Apex, NC

Chief Technology Officer Head of Artificial Intelligence

Highly accomplished technical expert with comprehensive experience in aligning technology initiatives with business goals, revolutionizing processes, and spearheading digital transformation to propel organizational success.

Innovative and tech-savvy expert with proven track record of spearheading transformative technology strategies. Instrumental in building and leading world-class Data Science Centre of Excellence, cultivating culture of ingenuity and collaboration. Extensive experience in data science, machine learning, and statistical analysis. Excel at demonstrating roadmap for AI integration, outlining key milestones, timelines, and resource allocation to guide successful execution of AI projects across various departments’ workflows and company product experience. Strong familiarity with AI frameworks, tools, and libraries, and proficiency in programming languages commonly used in AI development, enabling the implementation of cutting-edge AI technologies within company ecosystem. Exceptional communicator adept at fostering collaborative relationships and facilitating productive interactions to achieve shared goals.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Project Management

System Implementation

Business Transformation

Business Artificial Intelligence

Predictive Modeling

Cloud Services & Enablement

Talent Development & Management

Process Improvement & Optimization

Vendor Management

Team Leading & Mentoring

Product Design & Development

Cross-functional Collaboration

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Led dynamic team of Data Scientists and Business Analysts, driving continuous advancements in Cisco's business analytics and business intelligence technology platforms.

Established centralized pool of project-based data scientists and introduced comprehensive data science training program.

Built in-house configurable policy rating system; met stringent Department of Insurance requirements across all 50 states.

Recruited by global IT and networking leader for the US to establish innovative data science center of excellence.

Appointed by Senior Management to drive transformative change in auto insurance sector.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PrecisionHawk – Raleigh-Durham, NC 2020 – 2023

Chief Technology Officer

Promptly delivered flagship software platform, Precision Analytics, adhering to scope and budget parameters. Revamped Quote-to-Cash process, eliminated bars and overruns while implementing optimal Project Management practices to enhance operational efficiency, cost containment, and regulatory compliance. Implemented AI operations best practices, including experiment documentation procedures and streamlined processes to document Data Scientists' model building techniques. Streamlined Marketing; Sales; Project Management and Operations processes; applications and tools to align business intelligence infrastructure and processes to provide real-time reporting and analytical analysis. Restructures IT enterprise infrastructure to increase collaboration and working practices whilst reducing number of applications and IT applications costs by more than 38%.

Key Contributions:

Successfully reduced model training time from three months to under 10 days.

Directed company through successful merger, leveraging technological and product innovations to deliver an impressive 7x increase in company valuation.

Forged strategic partnerships with stakeholders and clients to apply top-tier practices in planning and feature identification, enhancing production management efficiency.

Built and led high-performing leadership team; streamlined product design/roadmap and set up five software product lines.

Aligned software platform development with bespoke customer requirements, significantly enhancing overall customer experience.

Introduced best-in-class development and testing methodologies to consistently deliver superior products.

Motion Auto LLC – Raleigh-Durham, NC 2018 – 2020

Senior Vice President of Analytical Sciences

Transformed policy pricing process, drastically improving customer experience. Designed proof of concept (POC) for state-of-the-art rating engine; dynamically updates quotes in real time, enhancing flexibility for users to modify requests. Crafted unique driver scoring profile enabling personalized peer comparisons, incorporating local regulations. Ensured comprehensive policy management, reporting adherence, and regulatory compliance on national scale.

Key Contributions:

Spearheaded creation of revolutionary insurance product utilizing telematics and road data.

Developed robust systems for policy management, policy ratings, and cutting-edge analytics to establish highly accurate driver scores using GPS, road data, and vehicle telemetry.

Catalyzed Inorganic Growth via Series A Funding by Architecting Essential Engineering Infrastructure and Systems.

Contributed to independent valuation of Motion Auto at impressive $100M, laying groundwork for substantial valuation growth.

Engineered policy rating system capable of generating and binding quotes in under 90 seconds.

Positioned company to advocate for replacement of conventional insurance factors like gender and credit rating.

Citadel LLC – Raleigh-Durham, NC 2017

Head of Data Production

Modernized client experience by providing real-time visibility into data product validity. Pioneered dynamic heat map; visually represented real-time Data Production Lifecycle, empowering clients with valuable insights.

Key Contributions:

Transformed data project delivery, reducing defects from 15% to impressive ~3%.

Implemented robust code review and QA assessment initiative, rapidly lowering "bugs" percentages from ~40% to ~2% within 2 months through expert utilization of DevOps best practices.

Reduced time to deploy trading solutions from 28 days to remarkable three days by consolidating five disparate data production development processes into single, highly efficient workflow.

Cisco Systems – RTP NC/Brussels, Belgium 1999 – 2017

Senior Manager Data Scientist

Directed deployment of Data Analytics and Business Intelligence solutions to achieve tangible improvement in sales performance; streamlined service supply chain planning, reduced project management costs, and optimized the overall business intelligence architecture. Provided professional coaching across organization to uplift all data science practitioners. Conceptualized and implemented strategic plan for Global Service Supply Chain, utilizing Kaplan and Norton's balanced scorecard methodology.

Key Contributions:

Remarkably condensed Service Supply Chain Planning cycle from four months to less than six weeks.

Reduced average project costs from over $1M to approximately $100K in line with minimizing project duration from 18 months to under six weeks.

Achieved 40% decrease in over-budget projects and enhanced ability to validate gross margin contributions through integration of Monte Carlo simulation models.

Spearheaded analysis of Quote-to-Cash processes and implemented AI model that expedited analysis, leading to identification of approximately $180M in unrealized year-over-year sales opportunities.

Headed successful creation and leadership of Brussels-based Business Intelligence organization for Technical Assistance Center (TAC), overseeing operations across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

EDUCATION

MSc – Advanced Manufacturing Systems

University of Teesside – Middlesbrough, UK

BSc(Hons) – Business Computing

University of Teesside – Middlesbrough, UK

CERTIFICATIONS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Predictive Analytics Certificate Data Science Certificate

Strategic Decision & Risk Management Certificate

Cloudera Developer Training for Spark, Hadoop, Big Data Applications, Apache Spark, and MapReduce

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Data Technologies:

Hadoop Spark Pig Hive Impala Sqoop Cassandra HBase Kafka

Databases:

Oracle Postgres MySQL MS SQL Salesforce.com MongoDB Vertica

Cloud Services:

Multi-modeling Techniques:

Tools:

Supervised Learning Algorithms:

Unsupervised Learning Algorithms:

AWS Google Cloud Platform Azure

Voting Min/Max Random Forests Boosting Bagging

SPSS RapidMiner Statistica KNIME WEKA Orange Watson Analytics Clarabridge SAS EM Power BI Jira

Linear Regression Logistic Regression Decision Trees Naïve Bayes SVM

Neural Networks Recurring Neural Networks Convolutional Neural Networks

Boosted Trees

K-means Gaussian Mixture Models Hierarchical Clustering Hidden Markov models

K-nearest neighbor

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