Gordon Oxley

Experience

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  Software Synergy, Inc

  Jun 2010 - Sept 2014

  JR Software Tester

  Tested software that needed to be delivered to company customers

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  Stevens Institute of Technology

  May 2016 - May 2017

  • Conducted research focused on energy and materials sector by using Bloomberg tools and functions to perform financial analysis such as discounted cash flow analysis and ratio analysis• Identified promising investments and performed detailed stock pitches in order to invest a part of the fund’s $200,000 • Accessed Amazon Web Services’ API using R in order to collect data on how Mechanical Turk workers code Tableau comments • Determined what comments are the most constructive and helpful in the Tableau forums based on a table of sentiment codes

  • Student Managed Investment Fund

    Sept 2016 - May 2017

  • Independent Research - Amazon Mechanical Turk Text Mining

    May 2016 - Aug 2016
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  Prudential Financial

  Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Data Analyst Intern

  Designed and implemented dashboards in Tableau that provided key insights into organizational budgeting and participation with company incentive programs, in collaboration with the Business Intelligence team

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  Jefferies

  Jun 2018 - May 2019

  • Application Support Engineer

    Feb 2019 - May 2019

  • RIsk IT Business/Data Analyst

    Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
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  Jefferies

  Sept 2019 - Mar 2025

  2+ years of experience managing a dynamic team of 8 data scientists, providing mentorship, leadership, and training to drive AI solutions across all front office business unitsLeading Gen AI rollout and strategy for Investment Banking and Equity Research use cases to increase efficiencies in banker and analyst workflows by utilizing prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, and retrieval-augmented generation of public and proprietary data through several delivery channelsDeveloped and delivered fine-tuned LLM summarization features in CRM that provide concise summaries of published research and banker notes Generating investor and buyer lists, informed by internal data on client behavior and powered by machine learning, to drive targeted initiatives in Equity Capital Markets and M&A product groups Product Manager and scrum lead responsible for transforming ideas into products by gathering requirements, managing stakeholders, and executing key roadmap items Show less Led a pioneering NLP project, using RoBERTa models to perform named entity recognition and insights extraction from banker notes and text dataConducted sell side customer and transaction analytics for Jefferies’ clients in Python, resulting in three successful sell-side M&A transactions valued in the millionsDeployed machine learning models with explainable AI to identify deal opportunities, including activism, follow-on offerings, leveraged buyouts, and refinancing opportunitiesDeveloped cloud-based analytical layers in Scala and Pyspark for feature creation by using my expert knowledge of financial data such as fundamental data provided by S&P Capital IQ Show less

  • Data Science Lead, Vice President

    Dec 2023 - Mar 2025

  • Data Scientist, Assistant Vice President

    Jan 2021 - Dec 2023

  • Associate Data Scientist

    Sept 2019 - Jan 2021