Mari Pierce-Quinonez

Experience

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  Tufts Experimental College

  Sept 2010 - Dec 2011

  Lecturer

  Designed curriculum and taught undergraduate course on sustainable food systems.Encouraged student engagement in local food movement through field trips and regular guest lectures.

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  Insight Systems

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2015

  Knowledge Management Consultant

  Knowledge management and learning strategies for USAID and other international agricultural development professionals on Agrilinks.org. Key tools and techniques include online discussions & communities of practice, webinars, and in-person seminars and workshops.

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  The World Bank

  Jan 2015 - Oct 2015

  Knowledge Management Consultant

  Established and supported links between the agriculture, food security, and nutrition communities through outreach to relevant constituencies within and outside the World Bank Group. Curated and contributed agriculture and food security content to the SharePoint based SecureNutrition Knowledge Platform. Facilitated a redesign of the Platform to improve usability and knowledge management functions.

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  FARMIGO (acquired by GrubMarket)

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2016

  Community Strategy Manager

  Built a community of organizers to help bring fresh, local food to neighborhoods throughout Seattle, Metro New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area. I accomplished this through the following core responsibilities:• Designed and implemented a data-driven engagement strategy visualized in Tableau for the Seattle, Bay Area and the New York metro regions.• Planned and executed large-scale events, workshops, and video chats to empower organizers to recruit and retain members, resulting in NPS score of 70+ Show less

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  Neal Analytics

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

  Data Scientist

  • Create data-driven models to drive operational insights for clients in the philanthropic, manufacturing and restaurant sectors.• Lead workshops to help clients understand and prioritize the best uses of advanced analytics to achieve their business goals. HIGHLIGHTED PROJECTS:Grant Portfolio Risk Prediction • Used Natural Language Processing and text analytics to identify the probability that a grant would run into performance issues at some point during it's period of performance. (client: major philanthropic organization)Technician Forecasting• Built a time series forecast to anticipate service requests on a four-month rolling time horizon. Used historic service request data and external data to build a seasonal ARIMA model. • Managed client relationship and all aspects of data engineering, dashboard development and deployment. (client: telecommunications service provider) Show less

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  Galvanize Inc

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2017

  Data Scientist in Residence

  Coached and mentored students on wide range of topics including Python, Git, Spark, supervised/unsupervised machine learning techniques, natural language processing, graph theory, and statistics. Taught an introductory Python course to 20 students.

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  Galvanize Inc

  Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

  Data Analytics Instructor

  A part-time, nights and weekends course teaching the basics of SQL, Tableau and Excel to aspiring Data Analysts.

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  Slalom

  Jul 2018 - now

  Leader of the Seattle Data Science team. Responsible for the growth and success of 12 data science consultants, including technical mentorship, business development, team and individual development, engagement management and all other operational aspects.- Technical mentorship: act as a thought leader for machine learning, data science and generative AI projects. Provide guidance and code reviews for junior members of the team.- Business development: scope and sell meaningful data science work that engages our team of consultants in complex challenges that address core business needs.- Team and individual development: build a team of engineering leaders, able to communicate technical topics to non-technical stakeholders. Create a collaborative environment where all team members feel supported and are growing their technical expertise.-Engagement management: oversee the day-to-day operations of individual and team-based projects, ensuring outcomes are delivered and budgets are kept. Show less

  • Senior Principal

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Principal Consultant

    Jul 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Senior Data Science Consultant

    Dec 2020 - Jul 2021

  • Data Science Consultant

    Jul 2018 - Dec 2020