Senior leader with extensive experience leading applied science initiatives at scale. Expert in building high-performing teams, driving data-driven decision making, and delivering transformative AI/ML solutions that impact millions of users.
JAMES NORDLUND
SENIOR SCIENCE LEADER
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;; PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Head of Science, Worldwide Pricing and Promotions
Amazon
2022 - Present
- Lead organization of applied scientists and economists across multiple product lines
- Architected and executed ML strategy for $10B+ sized businesses
- Mentored science leaders and established best practices
- Drove cross-functional initiatives with product, engineering, and business teams
Director of FinTech Innovations Lab
LSU
2017 - 2022
- Established a new research lab and the recruiting/training of staff
- Designed, built, and administered a local cloud compute server to scale ML initiatives
- Owned research projects on causal spillover effects and network effects
- Lead the development of NLP-based AI models for financial research
Research Scientist and Technical Lead
Texas A&M University
2011 - 2017
- Owned the migration of existing research resources to a new HPC cluster
- Developed statistical/mathematical models in R, Python, Stata, SAS, and Matlab
;; TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Languages:
Python, R, SAS, SQL, Stata, Scala
ML/AI:
EC2, EMR, PyTorch, Sagemaker, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, Spark MLlib
Infrastructure:
AWS, GCP, Docker, Airflow, MLflow
Data:
Spark, Redshift
Tools:
Git, Jupyter, Linux, CI/CD
;; EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Financial Economics
Texas A&M University
B.A. in Mathematics
Trinity University