Collin Forbes

University of Florida, Hough Graduate School of Business

Master of Science in Information Systems and Operations Management (MSISOM)

Gainesville, FL - August 2022

University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Bachelor of Science in Economics

Gainesville, FL - May 2021

United National Foods Incorporate (UNFI)

Strategy and Transformation Data Scientist I - Fully Remote

• Worked in an Agile team of Data Scientists that worked in monthly sprints.
• Specialized using many different tools created in Python to save the company money through automation and extracting actionable insights from data and reduced operating costs.
• Trained and maintained Decision Trees that resulted in $6,000,000 in reduced product shrinkage/spoilage.
• Built an automated Extract Transform and Load (ETL) pipeline to automate monthly.
• Set up automated call analysis pulling Nice inContact audio data, transcribed with OpenAi's Whisper model and extracted keywords, sentiment and other insights from 94,000 audio call records saving countless hours in manual labor.
• Ingested Standard Operating Procedures into a locally-hosted LLM using a Retrieval Augmentation Design to make it a specialist in the SOPs for use in distribution centers.
• Web scraped competitors Job postings to identify future products they may be developing.
• Created complex SQL queries across many badly-maintained databases.

Fortegra

Data Scientist & Leadership Development Program Associate - Jacksonville, FL

• Acted as the sole data scientist in the corporate analytics department and leveraged Python and SQL to create tools that they didn't have beforehand.
• Maintained integration of a multi-million dollar machine learning pipeline created by consultants.
• Geotagged insured properties and assessed impact of hurricanes/tropical storms.
• Given special project by CEO to improve the efficiency of lunch ordering & record key metrics.
• Became very familiar with understanding the needs of the business and communicating deliverables effectively to non-technical stakeholders.

Remarkable Roads

Founder - Gainesville, FL

• An online marketplace for one-of-a-kind maps. The company uses an in-house developed software to categorize every road on earth and create stylized images from the data. The company sells prints of over 330 locations.
• Created proprietary inventory management system that would predict which of over 9000's SKU's needed to be printed to maintain a small physical inventory.
• Automated full process of receiving orders, sending it to production partner and communicating status with Customers.

ClassroomSync

Founder/Software Engineer - Gainesville, FL

• Managed a team of 6 Student Interns ranging from accounting to marketing students.
• Developed an Education Technology software tool for Highschool Teachers alongside a group of local developers.
• Exhibited in the Future of Education Technology Convention in Orlando in 2018 and participated in many local startup competitions.

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Intern - Key West, FL

• Obtained confidential clearance and worked for a US military contractor at the Trumbo Point Naval Air Station base where I assisted a team of mechanical engineers, chemists, and biologists on their respective projects.

Artificial Intelligence Economy

Two-hundred thousand Artificial Intelligence (AI) Consumers buy products from ten-thousand AI Companies. Generates semi-realistic data and model how new products, marketing campaigns and price changes would affect company revenue, profit, and market capture. Skills Utilized: Python, SQL, Tensorflow, Pandas, Scikitlearn

Weather Data Scrapers

Every 2 hours executes web-scraper to collect over 124 different atmospheric datapoints for everywhere in the continental United States. As of data total data collected is 60 gigabytes. Skills Utilized: Python, AWS Lightsail, Selenium, BeautifilSoup, Opencv2, Pillow

Google Trends Stock Analyzer

For any stock, will find a search phrase that acts as the best premature predictor for stock price. Uses custom optimizer to continually search for the best predictor. Skills Utilized: Python, YFinance, PyTrends, Word2Vec, Pandas, SARIMA

Forecasting Collections from Accounts Receivable: Master's Practicum

Worked with Atlantix Partners remotely to build a model that would accurately predict their cash in-flows from clients and identified companies that routinely paid late. Wrote a gradient descent algorithm to optimize the model to achieve most accurate model to provide the best results. Skills Utilized: Python, SARIMA, Kmeans

Entrepreneurship Collective, Treasurer - May 2019 – August 2022

Phi Sigma Epsilon, Member - August 2018 – May 2019

FAA Commercially Licensed Drone Pilot - January 2017 – Present

PADI Certified Diver - June 2017 – Present