Jared Endicott

About Jared Endicott

Pioneering Data Scientist who uses the latest and most progressive data tools-R, Hadoop, Python-to drive sound business decisions in the areas of Sales Operations and Finance (to date.) Predictive Analyst with a proven track record of developing predictive models and analysis, improving accuracy and establishing credibility. Systems thinker who designs custom solutions to streamline procedures, increase productivity, enhance efficiency, and provide insightful analysis of root causes and market opportunities. Future oriented visionary who embraces major challenges, applying a diverse toolkit of skills to achieve impressive results in a widespread suite of sales, finance, and operations functions. Areas of Expertise include:• Predictive Analytics for use in Credit Policy, Fraud Detection, Bad Debt Reduction, Customer Preference Patterns• Statistics (Hypothesis Testing, Correlations, Regression Analysis) • Financial Analysis (Return on Investment (ROI), Net Present Value (NPV), Financial Statement Analysis, Ratio Analysis) • Economics (Macroeconomic Indicators, Business Cycles, Demand Models, Behavioral Economics) • Forecasting (Time Series Models, Exponential Smoothing, ARIMA, Trend / Season Decomposition, Judgmental)• Programming: R and VBA (currently learning Python) • R (R Studio, R Markdown, knitr, Shiny, Exploratory Analysis, Transforming Data, Modeling, Visualizations)• Machine Learning (ML)(Pre-Processing, Feature Creation, Classifications Trees, Random Forests, Boosting, Bayesian, Bagging, Cross Validation)• SQL & Database Solutions involving mining massive data sets within Teradata Data Warehouse (DW) and SQL Server • Big Data (Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, HBase, Pig, Spark, Splunk)• Report Development, KPIs, Dashboards & Scorecards• Process Improvement (Lean, Six Sigma) & Automation (VBA)• Data Visualizations (R, Tableau, Power BI)

Experience

1. Data Science & Ai Discipline Lead

   Launch Consulting Group

   Jan 2023 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US

   Thought leadership and evangelizing AI to my fellow Launch Consulting team members, The Planet Group, and our clients, with a focus on strategic thinking and solving difficult challenges with the latest innovations.• Leading teams of Data Scientists and AI Architects, delivering AI/ML solutions across a wide range of industries and clients, including Microsoft, Centene, Teichert Construction, USANA, and Bowlero. • Principal AI Architect, consulting with clients on AI use cases and business value drivers, designing responsible AI/ML solutions, and leading implementation of AI/ML systems in the cloud.• Developing AI/ML demos and Solution Accelerators, including the Launch Intelligent Text Extractor (LITE), the Launch Intelligent Forecast Engine (LIFE), and the Predictive Modelling Assessment and Proof-of-Concept. • Developing and launching LITE 2.0, a Natural Langue Processing (NLP) tool for extracting structured and semi-structured text from documents of unstructured text. LITE applies Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to ingest and digitize PDF and other documents. A taxonomy is configured based on the use case, document type, and key text to extract. OpenAI/ChatGPT is used to read each document and respond to it based on the configured taxonomy with engineered prompts. • Designing and developing LIFE, a time series forecasting tool which ingests monthly time series data and batch forecasts each time series based on the dimensions provided in the data. Each time series is automatically analyzed with visualizations of the Trend-Season Decomposition and Analys-of-Variance (ANOVA) for each. Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and Exponential Smoothing models are fit to the data and backtests are run to gauge the best performing model for each time series. Accuracy is evaluated using a custom blend of measures for consensus modeling against benchmarks to determine relative performance benefits. See a public demo of the LIFE.

Education

• Bellevue College

  Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), General Studies, Studied Information Technology

  1994 — 2007

• University of Houston-Clear Lake

  Certificate of Future Studies, Future Studies

  2012 — 2012

• Eastern Oregon University

  BS, Economics, Philosophy, and Politics

  2007 — 2010

Skills

• Policy
• Economics
• Political Philosophy
• Database Design
• Excel
• Budgets
• Process Improvement
• Microsoft Excel
• Data Mining
• Time Management
• Quality Assurance
• Analytical Skills
• Big Data
• Team Leadership
• Direct Sales
• Business Intelligence
• Forecasting
• Business Process Improvement
• Project Planning
• Forecasting Models
• Change Management
• Business Planning
• Call Centers
• Vba
• Sql
• Time Series Analysis
• Strategic Planning
• Hadoop
• R Programming
• Analytics
• Forecasting Involuntary Churn
• Leadership
• Databases
• Strategy
• Statistics
• Political Science
• Regression Models
• Telecommunications
• Analysis
• Data Science