I am a data scientist with 17 years of experience across defense, retail, energy, and industrial control systems. I specialize in rapid prototyping of bespoke solutions using machine learning, deep learning, causal inference, and Bayesian methods. I excel at turning complex problems into actionable decisions, leading end-to-end model development, communicating insights to stakeholders, and mentoring technical teams. I am proficient in building scalable analytics, dashboards, and data visualizations that drive business impact.

Christopher Ciminera

I am a data scientist with 17 years of experience across defense, retail, energy, and industrial control systems. I specialize in rapid prototyping of bespoke solutions using machine learning, deep learning, causal inference, and Bayesian methods. I excel at turning complex problems into actionable decisions, leading end-to-end model development, communicating insights to stakeholders, and mentoring technical teams. I am proficient in building scalable analytics, dashboards, and data visualizations that drive business impact.

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I am a data scientist with 17 years of experience across defense, retail, energy, and industrial control systems. I specialize in rapid prototyping of bespoke solutions using machine learning, deep learning, causal inference, and Bayesian methods.

I excel at turning complex problems into actionable decisions, leading end-to-end model development, communicating insights to stakeholders, and mentoring technical teams. I am proficient in building scalable analytics, dashboards, and data visualizations that drive business impact.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Freelance Data Scientist at Inframark
October 1, 2024 - October 1, 2025
Developed deep learning-based forecasting and optimal control solutions on IoT sensor data for large-scale water purification systems. Models served as backbone of a 0-to-1 product offering for client’s customers.
Freelance Data Scientist at RUGS USA
January 1, 2024 - October 1, 2024
Constructed a price optimization workflow for an e-commerce company leveraging multimodal product data (text, image, sales) to build Double Machine Learning and Bayesian models to infer price elasticity.
Senior Data Scientist at Naked Wines
April 1, 2021 - January 1, 2024
Led Bayesian MMM delivering ROI, CAC, and attribution; designed optimization model for media spend; applied Bayesian dynamic linear models for causal inference in global brand campaigns and price experiments; built interactive notebooks for stakeholder drill-down.
Lead/Senior Lead Data Scientist at Under Armour
February 1, 2019 - April 1, 2021
Led demand forecasting with generalized additive models (GAMs); built spatiotemporal forecasts including promotions, weather, and COVID-19 impacts; mined market basket rules; created product mapping via constrained optimization using network flow.
Lead Data Scientist at ARBO
May 1, 2015 - February 1, 2019
Developed a predictive model to time natural gas project milestones; achieved 5X speedup with Bayesian optimization; NLP/ML solution for named entity recognition on 100k+ legal documents; crafted high-quality visualizations; mentoring.
Operations Research Analyst at Innovative Decisions, Inc.
July 1, 2010 - December 1, 2014
NLP data extraction, state-space modeling, dashboards for predictive epidemiology forecasts, and a GUI-based app for R&D system simulation.
Operations Research Analyst at SAIC
June 1, 2008 - July 1, 2010
Social Network Analysis backend code; decision analysis for cyber threat prioritization; led metrics for CMMI certification.

Education

MS Applied and Computational Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2013
BS Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2008

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Industry Experience

Energy & Utilities, Retail, Manufacturing, Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment

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