Brendan Herger

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1209 Page Street No. 7 San Francisco, Ca 94117

Selected Experience

Data Scientist

Data Innovation Lab @ Capital One (San Francisco, Ca.)   06/15 - Now 
Lead research team modeling for fraud problem space with class 
imbalance & adversaries; H2O.ai, GraphLab, SKLearn
Deployed sub-millisecond real time model; Apache Apex
Recommended distributed machine learning frameworks for general 
adoption at Capital One; H2O.ai, GraphLab, Apache Spark

Various Technical Positions

Lawfty (San Francisco, Ca.), RevUp Software (Redwood City, Ca.), 
Perkins + Will Architecture (San Francisco, Ca.) & Lawrence Berkeley 
National Lab. (Berkeley, Ca.)

Front End Supervisor

The Home Depot Pro (Colma, Ca.)                                        05/11 - 03/13
Positions held: Cashier, Special Services Assoc., Tool Rental Assoc.
Supervised and trained a staff of 10-30 team members

Education
MS, Analytics

University of San Francisco, July 2015
Relevant Coursework: Machine Learning, Adv. Machine Learning, Data 
Acquisition, Exploratory Data Analysis, Relational Databases, NoSQL 
Databases, Linear Regression Analysis, Time Series Analysis, Intro. SAS

BS, Physics

University of San Francisco, May 2014
Minors: Computer Sciences, Mathematics
Honors: University Scholar, President of ΠΜΕ Math Honors Society
Relevant Coursework: Software Development, Data Structures & 
Algorithms, Differential Eqn.’s, Linear Algebra, Graduate Econometrics

Personal Projects

Identified genre of Billboard 
Hot 100 songs using ensemble 
algorithm built with Support 
Vector Machine, Neural Network, 
Stochastic Gradient Boost, and 
Random Forest  algorithms; 
Python, Pandas, R and Scikit-Learn

Implemented Naive Bayes text 
classification algorithm and trained 
this algorithm to correctly label 
83% of movie reviews; Python, 
numpy and Pandas

Created database containing lyrics 
of Billboard Hot 100 songs since 
1958; R, Python, Pandas and 
Beautiful Soup 4

Built a multi-threaded web scraper 
and search engine with web 
user interface; Java, MySQL and 
HTML5/CSS

Built resume parsing package 
which extracts text, finds contact 
details, and checks for required 
keywords; Python and Pandas

Online

Hergertarian.com

github.com/bjherger

linkedin.com/in/bjherger

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