Christopher Brown

I am an executive (Chief Data Scientist/Chief Product Officer) with nearly twenty years experience leading AIML, analytics, and applied statistics teams. My focus has been on on financial services, health care, e-commerce, and recently generative commerce. Some highlights of my career have been: - Starting SkyeGlobal AI. - Building and providing focus, directions to Adara's data, engineering, and data science teams. Our team modernized Adara's analytics efforts a core asset in Rategain's acquisition of Adara in 2023. - Founding and running, Decision Patterns, a Data Science/AIML consulting firm that helps clients solve their most intractable problems with data-driven solutions and applications. - Five years teaching at U.C. Berkeley's Department of Computer Science. I developed the curricula and taught both "Introduction to Machine Learning" and "Business and Economics of Data Science". UC Berkeley developed my curricula into an online introduction to ML course, now taken by thousands of students. - Creating OnApproach, an application that has increased solid organ donations for our Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) clients by 5%+. OnApproach has resulted in up to 60 lives saved or extended each month. - Creating fraud detecting algorithms and systems in electronic payments and general commerce. Included in the systems that I have worked on are among the most-used and performant tools in the industry. They result in billions of dollars saved and kept away from fraudster each year. - Working directly with 50+ clients on a wide-array of challenging problems. - Developing the first business model to perform machine learning as a fixed-cost, one-stop solution, mostly through automatic feature development. - Worked with the US Military on counter insurgency projects. - Open source developer and contributor whose Python and R software has been downloaded mor