Ebony Taylor Brown

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Senior Data Scientist at Workday | ex-Target

Workday
Nashville, TN · CT (UTC-6)
6+ years experience
Ohio State University
English
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Overview

Based in Nashville. I work on fraud detection at Workday. Cut false positives on payment blocks by 35%. Before that: Target and Zoom.

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Skills
graph analyticsPythonSQLanomaly detectionevaluationLightGBM
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a commercial co-founder for pharmacy logistics for community banks

The idea
Pharmacy logistics for community banks
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
6 years in fraud detection
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
Nashville or remote

I bring 6 years of fraud detection (currently Workday). Ideally you've led a design team. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

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Experience

  1. Senior Data Scientist
    Jan 2026 - Present
    Workday · 9 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Replaced 115 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Caught $2 million of fraud in the first year of the new models.
    • Cut false positives on payment blocks by 32%.
  2. Data Scientist
    Oct 2023 - Jan 2026
    Target · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Cut false positives on payment blocks by 34%.
  3. Data Analyst
    Oct 2020 - Oct 2023
    Zoom · 3 yr · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Replaced 95 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

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Education

  1. Ohio State University
    BA, Statistics
    2015 - 2019

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