“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.
