A selection of applied analytics projects and research work. Most of my industry projects lived inside organizations and aren't publicly shareable in detail — what's listed here reflects what I can describe without compromising confidentiality.
Industry work at Block and TruStage Insurance. Details are described at the level I can share.
Built an end-to-end pipeline to forecast incoming headcount for Block's Finance and Strategy department. Achieved greater than 85% accuracy, enabling the team to plan resourcing ahead of quarterly cycles without relying on vendor tooling.
Fine-tuned a large language model to analyze tens of thousands of open-ended employee survey comments. Reduced the time from data collection to actionable insights by approximately 80%, making this kind of qualitative analysis feasible at organizational scale.
Built a predictive ML pipeline for Block's global Sales organization to identify the key factors driving sales and revenue performance. Output was used to inform compensation and management strategy across multiple regions.
Designed an end-to-end data pipeline for the Square Engineering function linking system outages to operational response and stabilization timelines.
Developed a custom compensation modeling application integrating payroll data and linear regression outputs to support executive salary decisions. Reduced dependence on external vendor tools, saving approximately $60K in annual licensing costs.
Redesigned the veterinary school's student admissions dashboard (VBA and Excel) for a university client.
Academic and independent research work with publicly accessible outputs.
A hybrid regression algorithm that combines the interpretability of piecewise linear functions with the flexibility of regression trees. The goal is to improve prediction accuracy on structured, ordered data while maintaining a model that practitioners can actually explain.
Research on identifying and preventing careless and deceptive responding in organizational surveys, co-authored with Winfred Arthur Jr. and Erin Hagen. Published in the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. This is the most-cited work I've contributed to — 139 citations as of May 2026.