Michael W. Herron

About Michael W. Herron

Data scientist with domain knowledge in healthcare, software and services, energy and…

Experience

1. Principal Data Scientist

   Premier Inc.

   May 2012 — Present

   Applying econometrics, machine learning and distributed computing to inform decision-making. Leading and collaborating with teams to develop software products that:\\\\n\\\\n• Forecast Covid infections and hospitalizations at county and facility level, medical supply and drug shortages, and optimal allocation of resources to address the pandemic.\\\\n• Forecast patient volume to help hospitals anticipate staffing needs.\\\\n• Estimate demand, price elasticity of medical supplies sold to hospitals.\\\\n• Predict/identify prospective customers, forecast deal closings, using Salesforce and other data sources.\\\\n• Establish peer groups consisting of hospitals that are similar in ways that matter to performance, and compute performance benchmarks using data from hospitals.\\\\n• Perform probabilistic record linkage and classification of large data sets to enable comparative analysis.\\\\n• Establish MLOps process and tools across cloud and on-prem environments for large-scale machine learning projects.\\\\n\\\\nEmploying Bayesian inference, linear and logistic regression, autoregressive and linear trend filter models, support vector machine, random forest, neural network, text search and clustering.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n

Education

• University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  M.S., Economics

  2010 — 2012

Skills

• Full Text Search
• Healthcare Analytics
• Hadoop
• Python
• Apache Spark
• Sql
• R
• Agile Methodologies
• Linux
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Energy Economics
• Econometrics
• Uml
• Architecture
• Analysis
• Machine Learning