About Christopher Brossman

All things ML for business value

Work Experiance

Director of Data Science & Data Engineering

The RealReal Nov 2018

• Computer Vision, Pricing, Recommendations

Director of Data and Analytics

Leesa Sleep from June 2017 to Nov 2018

• Lead a team of top analytical talent
• Data Science, data warehousing, data visualization, business planning, data evangelist
• Vendor evaluation and project management

Data Scientist Manager

DE / Boatsgroup from April 2016 to June 2017

• Created inventory forecasting tools, dynamic pricing models & customer segmentation projects
• Part project manager, part data scientist
• Strategic recommendations, Data pipelines, regression modeling, APIs, Python, R, s3, Redshift, Tableau, Shiny

Data Scientist

Ferguson Enterprises from November 2011 to April 2016

• Developed product recommendation system
• Developed customer churn model
• Developed customer targeting strategy from insights of survival analysis.
• Developed monthly and yearly forecasts
• Developed text analytics program
• Various econometric causal impact analysis
• Economic Advisor
• Programatic pricing
• Market Demand Modeler

Technical Skills

• Machine Learning: Computer Vision, Pricing, Marketing Science, Recommendations, NLP
• Econometrics / Statistics: researched many causal impact projects to recommend action to business leaders
• Tools: Python, SQL, Java, Spark, Airflow, Kafka, FLink. AWS & GCP suite of tools for data management. Tableau visualizations.

Education

• Master of Computer Science @ ODU
• Master of Economics, Applied Econometrics @ ODU, May 2016
• Master of Business Administration (MBA) @ ODU, May 2016
• Certificate in Computer Programming @ VWCC, May 2013
• B.S. in Business Administration @ Millersville University of Pennsylvania, December 2010