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Hi, I'm Deshawn Rhone, a Senior Data Scientist based in Houston, TX. I build AI training and evaluation workflows, design LLM applications, and develop data pipelines that scale across teams. I have 6+ years of experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate complex data problems into measurable outcomes. I’m passionate about data labeling, QA, automated testing, and reliable delivery in remote, fast-moving projects. I enjoy working with SMEs and stakeholders to translate business questions into actionable metrics, and I strive for clarity, reproducibility, and impact in every project.…Hi, I'm Deshawn Rhone, a Senior Data Scientist based in Houston, TX. I build AI training and evaluation workflows, design LLM applications, and develop data pipelines that scale across teams. I have 6+ years of experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate complex data problems into measurable outcomes. I’m passionate about data labeling, QA, automated testing, and reliable delivery in remote, fast-moving projects. I enjoy working with SMEs and stakeholders to translate business questions into actionable metrics, and I strive for clarity, reproducibility, and impact in every project.

Deshawn Rhone

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Hi, I'm Deshawn Rhone, a Senior Data Scientist based in Houston, TX. I build AI training and evaluation workflows, design LLM applications, and develop data pipelines that scale across teams. I have 6+ years of experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate complex data problems into measurable outcomes. I’m passionate about data labeling, QA, automated testing, and reliable delivery in remote, fast-moving projects. I enjoy working with SMEs and stakeholders to translate business questions into actionable metrics, and I strive for clarity, reproducibility, and impact in every project.…Hi, I'm Deshawn Rhone, a Senior Data Scientist based in Houston, TX. I build AI training and evaluation workflows, design LLM applications, and develop data pipelines that scale across teams. I have 6+ years of experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate complex data problems into measurable outcomes. I’m passionate about data labeling, QA, automated testing, and reliable delivery in remote, fast-moving projects. I enjoy working with SMEs and stakeholders to translate business questions into actionable metrics, and I strive for clarity, reproducibility, and impact in every project.

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Hi, I’m Deshawn Rhone, a Senior Data Scientist based in Houston, TX. I build AI training and evaluation workflows, design LLM applications, and develop data pipelines that scale across teams. I have 6+ years of experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate complex data problems into measurable outcomes.

I’m passionate about data labeling, QA, automated testing, and reliable delivery in remote, fast-moving projects. I enjoy working with SMEs and stakeholders to translate business questions into actionable metrics, and I strive for clarity, reproducibility, and impact in every project.

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Work Experience

Senior Data Scientist at Cognizant

April 2, 2024 - Present

Wrote notes and reviewed guidelines for AI-generated responses; ran weekly calibrations with SMEs; improved label consistency using rubrics and disaggregation; built a RAG evaluation harness in Python/SQL; deployed a serverless AWS pipeline; performed statistical analysis and hypothesis testing on reviewer agreements; implemented margin/trust checks and reduced hallucinations in internal QA flows.

Data Scientist at Cognizant

May 2, 2023 - April 2, 2024

Owned daily AI training operations for a text classification dataset; designed annotation tasks and labeling instructions; conducted QA sampling and calibration; built lightweight prompt engineering experiments and A/B testing to compare prompt quality; created SQL/ETL pipelines for data curation and labeling consistency.

Data Scientist at TMDS Staffing

May 2, 2022 - May 2, 2023

Owned data science/ML tasks for classification; built baseline models; performed cross-validation and hypothesis testing on campaign data; created and maintained data pipelines; generated model outputs and reporting for stakeholders.

IoT Engineer at Stratford University

January 2, 2021 - April 2, 2022

Built Python scripts to parse sensor telemetry, perform data cleaning, and generate summary statistics for validation by faculty stakeholders; designed simple anomaly detection checks for IoT streams; created labeling templates and documented definitions to support consistent interpretation across test runs.