Sarah Barker

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Staff Data Scientist at Pfizer · NLP

Pfizer
Washington, DC · ET (UTC-5)
11+ years experience
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Collaborating
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Overview

I work on NLP at Pfizer in Washington. Built the language models now used in 6 product decisions a quarter. Replaced 37 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust. Most at home with information retrieval and transformers. I read too many books about cities.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Collaborators for my side project
  • Second opinions on evaluation decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Survey or panel invitations
  • Data broker offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
Skills
information retrievalevaluationPyTorchPythontransformers
CollaboratingLooking to collaborate
closes in 3 months

Building a free course on transformers for students - need co-instructors

Project
A free course on transformers for students - need co-instructors
Skills needed
Design, Python
Time commitment
Part-time
Outcome
Small product with real users

No money involved, just a good project. Based in Washington, happy to work remotely.

Washington, DCevaluationtransformerspytorch
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Experience

  1. Staff Data Scientist
    Nov 2023 - Present
    Pfizer · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Built the language models now used in 7 product decisions a quarter.
    • Replaced 23 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  2. Data Scientist
    Aug 2022 - Nov 2023
    KPMG · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Taught SQL to 118 non-analysts.
  3. Data Scientist
    Jul 2019 - Aug 2022
    American Express · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Replaced 25 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  4. Data Scientist
    Jul 2017 - Jul 2019
    AT&T · 2 yr · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Taught SQL to 54 non-analysts.
    • Replaced 99 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  5. Data Scientist
    Oct 2015 - Jul 2017
    Okta · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Taught SQL to 90 non-analysts.

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Education

  1. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    BS, Mathematics
    2010 - 2014

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