Paul Gellerman

Hi! You seem to have found yourself right here. No matter where you go there you are.

I’m an analytics leader with over a decade of experience of leading people and organizations to effectively leverage their data to make operational decisions. Early in my career I had the opportunity to work extensively with many portions of the military and see first hand how data can impact real world operations.

Because that’s what it’s all about. Data is just ore in the mine until it’s used to make a decision. If someone looks at a piece of data and makes no action from it is it worth it? What does the data do? How does it break the bonds of being a number on a screen to changing something, anything in the real space?

Through a decision. Normally by a person but sometimes a machine. Machines making decisions about data given to them by a machine.

I like helping create and grow teams and tools. If you’re interested in talking please reach out!

-Paul

Socialization

Skills

Data Engineering, Data Science and Visualization
  • sk-learn
  • dbt
  • pandas
  • requests
  • Tableau
  • PowerBI
  • seaborn
  • D3
  • ReTool
  • Jupyter Notebooks
Languages, Tools, and Operating Systems
  • Python
  • SQL
  • R
  • git
  • bash
  • Java
  • Spark
  • POSTGRES
  • SQL Server
  • MacOS
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • markdown
Concepts and Architectures
  • Agile Development
  • Dimensional Data Modeing
  • Data Warehousing
  • Time Series Forecasting
  • ML Predictions (Classifiers, Neural Net, Regression)
Platform Development and Administration
  • Atlassian
  • git
  • Bitbucket
  • gitlab
  • Wordpress
  • Hugo
  • MS AD
  • gradle
  • Jenkins
Containers and Cloud

Experience

Senior Director, Business Analytics

Travelers

Grew Business Analytics - Underwriting, Execution and Operations team and established foundational processes. Evangelized data engineering and analytical methodologies to improve enterprise capabilities.

First Data Hire

Nabis

Led small team of two in establishing foundational data infrastructure and practices.

Senior Manager Data Engineering

Hershey Foods

Led large team of 15 members through the planning of a large enterprise data migration.

Senior Data Scientist

Hershey Foods

Implemented data science models that improved supply chain metrics. Shifted the forecasting paradigm for the organization through new methodology that I designed, socialized, and implemented.

Deployment Strategist

Palantir

Maintained production environments used to support military operations. Understood customer goals and designed and developed product features to improve user workflows.

Data Scientist

US Army - Center for Army Analysis

Conducted analysis of high scale network data. Built Iron Man suits to augment analysts human skills. Helped start the Data Science Center of Education.

Deployed Analyst

US Army European Command in Wiesbaden, Germany

Conducted assessment of nations military forces through detailed data collection. To include on the ground interviews of country leadership. Analysis of helicopter transport in theater.

Forward Deploy Analyst in Djbiouti, Africa

Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa

Scoped and implemented data management solution. Lived in a shipping container.

Operations Research Analyst

US Army - Center for Army Analysis

Conducted rigorous analysis in support of the United States Army Headquarters.

Education

Virginia Tech

Bachelor of Science
Industrial and Systems Engineering

2003 - 2008

Georgetown University

Certificate in Data Science
Computer Information Systems

2016
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