Bradford Tuckfield
Data Science Developer

Bradford Tuckfield

Former senior manager of data science at AmEx Global Business Travel.
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About

Bradford Tuckfield is a data scientist with skills in statistics, programming, and machine learning. He previously worked as a senior manager of data science at American Express Global Business Travel, where he designed and coded clustering methods for an enterprise product. At Charles Schwab, he worked on model calibration and optimization, chatbots, NLP, and data analysis. Bradford is also an instructor and technical book author about data science, machine learning, and algorithms.

Employment

6 roles
Aug 2018 - Present 7 years 9 months
Instructor
Independent
  • Taught data science, NLP, coding, analytics, finance, and economics programs.
  • Created videos and full courses for Udacity on machine learning, AWS, and DevOps.
  • Clients: ViaX, Udacity, and Great Learning.
Nov 2018 - Present 7 years 6 months
Technical Book Author
Independent
  • Authored technical books about machine learning, data science, and algorithms.
  • Clients: No Starch Press and Packt.
May 2020 - Jul 2021 1 year 2 months
Senior Manager, Data Science
Charles Schwab
  • Worked on model calibration and optimization, chatbots, NLP, data analysis, and machine learning.
  • Automated lead generation leading to over $200 million net new asset acquisition.
Oct 2016 - May 2020 3 years 7 months
Senior Manager, Data Science
American Express Global Business Travel
  • Designed and coded clustering methods for an enterprise product earning $60,000 per customer.
  • Forecasted client attrition and customer volume, enabling over 10% call center cost savings.
  • Performed sentiment analysis and NLP for proactive customer care.
  • Designed and implemented fuzzy matching methods for transactions and peer benchmarking.
  • Conducted time-series analysis of sales volumes for econometric measurement of a new product’s impact.
  • Automated detection of fraudulent and erroneous transactions.
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019 5 months
Principal Data Scientist
Xtage Labs
  • Led the data science, data engineering, and application development teams.
  • Developed a business intelligence chatbot.
  • Created a monitoring system to enable cryptocurrency arbitrage.
Jul 2015 - Oct 2016 1 year 3 months
Data Scientist
Berkadia
  • Designed and built recommendation systems for real estate financing decisions and customer prospecting.
  • Worked with data projects end to end, including ETL's, data cleaning, back-end analysis, web frontend development, deploying internally, and training users.
  • Built interactive web applications using R, Shiny, JavaScript, and D3 for internal use.
  • Wrote web scraping scripts for US Treasury data and public real estate data using R and Python.
  • Predicted revenue using regressions and machine learning techniques.
  • Trained developers in R programming and statistical modeling.

Education

Sep 2012 - Jun 2015 2 years 9 months
Ph.D. Operations & Information Management, -
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Sep 2005 - Jun 2011 5 years 9 months
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics
Brigham Young University