Market analysis
Lead generation + marketing
Real time dashboards
Algorithm design
Data collection and analysis
Digital + physical prototyping
AutonomouStuff
Caterpillar
Watch Me Work
NEXMachine
CEFCU
Sicada
Aunt Yogi's Kitchen
TADA Cognitive Solutions
Digital Dipstick
Eat And Evolve
Civic Serve
Won Junior Wind Turbine efficiency challenge:
Built a wind turbine that was 100% more efficient than the competition.
Had a good process for iterating and improving my design two times faster than the competition
Created process to reduce wire harness fabrication time by 33%
Seamlessly integrated GPS, military grade IMU, Stereo Vision, Lidar, Radar into Polaris off road vehicle
Independently led $30,000 DARPA robotics project.
Independently led $30,000 DARPA robotics project. Duties included:
Establishing a customer relationship
Estimating + Budgeting the project
Designing and fabricating fixtures
Velin Dimitrov, WPI Team Captain
Identified over 3,000 local commercial borrowers on whom to focus sales effort.
I'm good at managing people:
Managed a distributed workforce of over 200 people around the world
Built custom processes to validate the work of my distributed workforce and guarantee the accuracy of my data.
I automate processes:
Prepared dozens of live interactive dashboards for mine site monitoring and production improvements
Collected, cleaned and analyzed over 3,000,000 insider trading documents from the SEC's EDGAR database.
I can handle uncertainty: EDGAR is abhorrently under documented
I find ways to save lots of time: Engineered a way to speed up download times from over 36 hours to under 9 hours.
Doordash meets Meals On Wheels
Point of Sale software for Meal prep businesses:
I build apps with rich functionality:
Payment processing via Stripe
Inventory management
Shortest path delivery routing via Routific
They'll collect data. We'll get them plugged into our community so they can get:
Home sale prices
Building permits
Vacant lots / housing
Foreclosure
Abatements
Section 8 Housing
Owner Occupancy
Renter Occupancy
Geocode the data to Census block groups
Inspect and validate the data
Spatially cluster that data to identify areas with common characteristics
Map the result
Make corrections to the map by visually inspecting points of interest throughout the city
Repeat 3 through 6 until the data is representative of the ground floor reality
Deliver the MVA in printed and perhaps digital reports
$60k - $75k
Typically lasts between 4 and 6 months depending on access to the data
Worst case has lasted 1 year
The additional cost for buying missing data needed to complete the project will be passed onto the City
I'll do it
affordably - 15% off of RF's $60k to $80k asking price
better - I'm a local committed to improving our city
faster - I have a head start
and will strive to make it repeatable
Implement processes to make the 2nd, 4th,... 10th MVA as painless as possible to produce
Data collection. We'll get them plugged into our community so they can get:
Home sale prices
Building permits
Vacant lots / housing
Data collection. Assemble stakeholders just as RF proposes:
Home sale prices
Building permits
Vacant lots / housing
I have a head start on this - see this map I made.
Data collection continued:
Foreclosures
Data collection continued:
Foreclosures
Already collected + mapped
Joe hired me for my initiative and curiosity
I'm familiar with the County DBs so I can get data faster.
Data collection continued:
Abatements
Data collection continued:
Abatements
I have a head start by virtue of working in this department
I know our people
I have easier access to our systems
Interviewing staff to understand pain points
Data collection continued:
Section 8 Housing
Owner Occupancy
Renter Occupancy
Data collection continued:
Section 8 Housing
Owner Occupancy
Renter Occupancy
I've been working on a better system to conduct tenant self inspections that could save us over $20k per year.
Data collection continued:
Schools
Food access
Job Access
Data collection continued:
Schools
Food access
Job Access
It will be fairly easy to map spatial access to local jobs from poorer communites
Isochrone maps
Data collection continued:
Evictions
Data collection continued:
Evictions
Inspect and validate the data
Inspect and validate the data:
Have driven to 20 of the over 6,000 properties flagged vacant by the USPS.
Many are vacant but don't appear abandoned:
For sale
Not for sale but being maintained
Need utility data
Spatially cluster data to identify areas with common characteristics
Spatially cluster data to identify areas with common characteristics
I can spatially cluster data
Map of traffic accidents
RF's clustering technique is a currently a mystery and out of our control
Are we sure it's right?
Can we improve it?
Map results
Probably interactive
Improvable?
Make corrections to the map by visually inspecting points of interest throughout the city
Make corrections to the map by visually inspecting points of interest throughout the city
Repeat data collection and cleaning cycle until the data is representative of the ground floor reality
Final deliverable: MVA in printed and digital reports
Strive to complete the project within 4 to 6 months (depending on access to the data)
The additional cost for buying missing data needed to complete the project will be passed onto the City
I will make deals with data vendors to save the city money
I've secured nearly $11,000 in free vacancy checks for a year from lob.com
If we do this it will be slower because city staffers are more nimble to consultant inquiry than to internal inquiry
Bring me on as a "Data Scientist in Residence" or a "Consultant in Residence"
I'll maintain my current schedule
I can supply my own technology as needed (Laptop, GPS recording system for spot checking data)
If we do this it will be slower because city staffers are more nimble to consultant inquiry than to internal inquiry
If we don't give me a title change then know that I've overcome almost every challenge of slow response times
Found workarounds to not having needed applications installed on my computer
The director of Data.gov helped me get access to a list of 90,000 addresses in our county for our vacancy checks
The impact of RF's analysis will be better because they've done this in 30 other cities
The impact of RF's analysis will be better because they've done this in 30 other cities
Baltimore block groups 3 years after MVA
63% stayed same
17% improved
20% declined
Baltimore block groups 3 years after MVA
63% stayed same
17% improved
20% declined
Baltimore block groups 3 years after MVA
63% stayed same
17% improved
20% declined
The impact of RF's analysis will be better because they've done this in 30 other cities
RF has a unique way of clustering the data that would be tough for us to replicate
Project dollars go to a local company.
I've already generated $11k in value and will generate much more.
The job will be done better because we care more about our city than any out of state group will.
We will do it faster because we are already connected to our systems and people.
We will develop key relationships with local authorities that will stay and mature here long after RF has left.
Put a stop to relenting our authority to foreign groups that want little of Peoria short of a paycheck.
Destroy the narrative that we're not smart enough to make our city a better place to live, work and grow.