Andre Toujas

“Why?” The question “why” has always intrigued Andre. That simple question is what made Andre pursue his degree in mechanical engineering, and answering “why” is what drives him as a data scientist. Two of his four NYCDSA projects were for real companies: Zillow and Sito Mobile. Through his project work with actual data sets, Andre is familiar with implementing the entire machine learning pipeline to answer real, business-related questions. Andre also realizes how important communication is to a data scientist, and he plans to leverage his project and communication skills he developed through his 10+ years of service as an engineering consultant program manager: delivery of technical presentations to non-technical audiences, leading cross-functional project teams, completing projects within schedule/budget constraints, etc.