Jacqueline Howell

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Staff Data Scientist, VMware - evaluation · transformers · Python

VMware
Pittsburgh, PA · ET (UTC-5)
9+ years experience
Parsons School of Design
English
Open to work
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Overview

9 years in data science and analytics, the last 2 at VMware, where I work on the language team. Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week. Before that: Accenture and Citi. Most at home with evaluation and transformers.

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Skills
information retrievalPyTorchtransformersPythonevaluation
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Data Scientist in banking, Pittsburgh or hybrid

Target roles
Data Scientist
Level
Senior
Industries
Climate tech, Consumer apps
Work mode
Remote
Available
90 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the PA
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns language end to end.
Not interested in
Contract-only roles

9 years in NLP. Strongest at transformers and Python. Serving notice now.

Pittsburgh, PApytorchtransformersinformation retrieval
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Experience

  1. Staff Data Scientist
    May 2024 - Present
    VMware · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Built the language models now used in 3 product decisions a quarter.
    • Taught SQL to 30 non-analysts.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  2. Data Scientist
    Aug 2020 - May 2024
    Accenture · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Taught SQL to 125 non-analysts.
  3. Data Scientist
    Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
    Citi · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  4. Data Analyst
    Dec 2017 - Mar 2019
    Disney · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Taught SQL to 72 non-analysts.
    • Replaced 22 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

Projects

Side project: a budgeting app
2025

Built with PyTorch and Python. 1291 people used it last year.

Conference talk: lessons from language
2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling NLP.

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Education

  1. Parsons School of Design
    BFA, Statistics
    2013 - 2017

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