Sam Ford

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Managing Director, Cairn Labs - governance · AI adoption · analytics

Cairn Labs
San Diego, CA · PT (UTC-8)
15+ years experience
Johns Hopkins University
English
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Overview

Based in San Diego. I lead data and AI strategy at Cairn Labs. Delivered 18 engagements across 7 countries. Designed the operating model for a 8 thousand-person transformation. Before that: ServiceNow and Kaiser Permanente. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

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governancedata strategyanalyticsAI adoption
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Looking for a design-minded co-founder for field-service scheduling for CPG brands

The idea
Field-service scheduling for CPG brands
Stage
Idea
I bring
15 years in growth engineering
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
San Diego or remote

I bring 22 years of data and AI strategy (currently Cairn Labs). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Full-time from day one.

San Diego, CA · remote OKanalyticsdata strategyai adoption
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Experience

  1. Managing Director
    Oct 2022 - Present
    Cairn Labs · 4 yr · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Shipped 27 launches on the growth team without a rollback.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 45 minutes to under 5.
  2. Engagement Manager
    Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
    ServiceNow · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Delivered 27 engagements across 4 countries.
  3. Consultant
    Oct 2018 - Jul 2021
    Kaiser Permanente · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Ran commercial diligence on 10 deals.
    • Delivered 25 engagements across 6 countries.
  4. Business Analyst
    Aug 2015 - Aug 2018
    Comcast · 3 yr · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Moved 77% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Engagement Manager
    Feb 2012 - Aug 2015
    Verizon · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Diego, CA
    • Ran commercial diligence on 21 deals.
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $94 million.

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Education

  1. Johns Hopkins University
    MS, Business Administration
    2007 - 2009
  2. Parsons School of Design
    BFA, Business Administration
    1999 - 2003

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