Work

A music producer, a private tutor, a statistician, an epidemiologist, a data scientist, a founder, a developer, an advocate, a manager. This is how I am, a mix of everything.

Resume

Relevant Work Experience

• Principal Cloud Advocate @ Microsoft (2022 - present)
• Chief Data Scientist, AI Strategy and Innovation @ IBM (2021 - 2022)
• Program Director - Open Source, Data & AI Technologies @ IBM (2020 - 2021)
• Senior Machine Learning Manager - - Open Source, Data & AI Technologies @ IBM (2018 - 2020)
• Sr Open Source Developer - Deep Learning/Machine Learning/AI Advocate @ IBM (2018)
• Lead Data Scientist @ SelfScore (2017)
• Data Scientist @ Sharethrough (2015 - 2017)
• Lead Data Scientist @ Alpine Data (2013 - 2015)
• Teaching Assistant, School of Design @ San Francisco State University (SFSU) (2012)
• Statistician (Research), Epidemiology/Statistics Lab @ UERJ (2007 - 2011)
• Private Tutor (2000 – 2009)
  • Taught high-school on Math, Physics and Chemistry
• Music Executive Producer (2001 - 2004)
  • Press Office/Sponsorship/Accounting
    • Singer: Thais Gulin 📹
    • Bands: Liquidificalouca 📹 & Paula Leal

Instructor

• Coursera

  • Data Analysis with R - 21k+ students, 4.7 stars (96% recommend the course)
  • Data Visualization with R - 19k+ students, 4.6 stars (96% recommend the course)

• EdX

  • Analyzing Data with R - 8k+ students
  • Visualizing Data with R - 6k+ students
  • Professional Certificate in Data Analytics and Visualization with Excel and R
  • Professional Certificate in Applied Data Science with R

• Skills Network

  • Introduction to Open Source - 5k+ students, 4.7 stars

• Datacamp

  • Tree-Based Models in R - 18k+ students

Community Involvement

• Founder - AI Inclusive (ai-inclusive.org) (2019 - Present)

  • Global organization that is helping increase the representation and participation of gender minorities in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

• Founder - R-Ladies (rladies.org) (2012 - Present)

  • R-Ladies is a worldwide organization that promotes diversity in the R community via meetups and mentorship in a friendly sand safe environment.

Mentoring

• Springboard (SlideRule) (2014 - 2016)

  • Curated curriculum, taught best practices and provided career advice

• Galvanize (Zipfian Academy) (2014 - 2016)

  • Taught best practices and provided career advice