Charlie Schlinkert

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Data Scientist

Data scientist with real world experience in using data acquisition and modeling, statistical analysis, NLP and machine learning to solve and  optimize company systems and processes. With a background in music, sales and management, I recognize the criticality of using data  to ensure teams and projects operate in concert.

TECHNICAL PROJECTS

Major League Baseball Predictions - Github

Predicted MLB game winners using data gathered from the MLB Stats API

  • Parsed data from the API and stored in a normalized RDB using SQLAlchemy
  • Compiled players’ historical performance leading up to each game with SQL select queries
  • Tuned and compared cross-validated prediction models versus base estimators with attention to weighted precision scores

Wine Recommender System - Github

Designed a content-based recommender system using cosine similarity

  • Scraped features from multiple sources using BeautifulSoup and Selenium
  • Parsed JSON dictionaries scraped from Vivino.com into an RDB
  • Visualized dataset using Plotly
  • Leveraged NLP and TF-IDF word vectors to include tasting notes into my model

Movie Plot Classifications  - Github 

Designed a model to predict a movie’s genre based on it’s plot description

  • Lemmatized movie plots with NLTK
  • Vectorized plots with sklearn’s Countvectorizer and TF-IDF transformer
  • Addressed a class imbalance with SMOTE oversampling
  • Tuned an SVM using a squared-hinge loss function and stratified K-fold cross validation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Graduated Flatiron School immersive bootcamp, Python, OOP, SQL, SQLAlchemy, scikit-learn, Pandas, statistical testing, and web scraping.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Sales Operations Intern, IHS Markit, Manhattan, NY         2020

  • Visualized sales team performance by product and region for annual offsite sales team meeting
  • Engineered a framework to programmatically separate sales reps into teams based on product lines and management hierarchy

Delegate Sales Manager, Source Media, Manhattan, NY        2018 - 2019

  • Sold $1 million in conference registrations in 12 months
  • Exceeded quotas by up to 60%

Production Manager, Momofuku Milkbar, Brooklyn, NY         2014 - 2015

  • Managed daily tasks for up to 15 employees during peak season
  • Tracked inventory for 6 NYC stores, facilitated deliveries when needed

EDUCATION

Flatiron School, New York, NY          10/ 2019 - 01/2020

Immersive Data Science Bootcamp program

Fordham University, Gabelli School of Business, Bronx, NY        09/ 2015 - 08/2018

B.S. in Business Administration