Background

Experience.

I went to MIT, grew up on the Rosebud Reservation, and have spent the last eight years turning data into tools that actually help people — from optimizing transit routes in Boston to teaching AI to Lakota youth.

Education.

MIT Sloan School of Management

Master of Business Analytics

Operations Research Center

Aug 2018 – Aug 2019
  • Dean's Fellowship Recipient: awarded for outstanding academic records, personal achievements, and professional promise.
  • Coursework: Machine Learning, Optimization Methods, Statistics, Interactive Data Visualization.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Business Analytics

Aug 2014 – Jun 2018
  • Coursework: Artificial Intelligence, Software Construction, Laboratory in Investments, Stochastic Models, Discrete Mathematics, Communicating with Data, Computation Structures.
  • MIT Chapter of Sigma Nu (Governance Chair, Vice President, Community Service Chairman): improved chapter performance in 9/10 areas; tripled total community service hours.
  • MIT American Indian Science and Engineering Society (Vice President): outreach to American Indian freshmen and high-school students; coordinated with campus organizations for the Native American community.

Work.

Ode Partners

Partner, Data Science

Remote (Rapid City, SD)

Jul 2023 – Present
  • Creating digital products and solutions for environmental impact.
  • "Full stack" data scientist: sourcing, joining, preparing, visualizing, and modeling data.

IndigiGenius

Vice President

Remote (Rapid City, SD)

Apr 2021 – Present
  • Building and delivering the "Introduction to Python and Data Science" curriculum for the Lakota AI Code Camp.
  • Organizing and MCing the Indigenous in AI Workshops for NeurIPS.
  • Thought leadership focused on increasing Indigenous participation and perspectives in AI/ML (most recently at TEDx Boston: Countdown to AGI).

The Earth Genome

Data Science, Product

Remote (Rapid City, SD)

Jul 2022 – Jul 2023
  • Delivering value through linear optimization, data processing, and advanced cartographic techniques.
  • Designing community-driven solutions by demonstrating the art-of-the-possible and implementing alongside the engineering team.

MFS Investment Management

Senior Data Science Analyst

Boston, MA

Oct 2019 – Jul 2022
  • Worked with cross-functional stakeholders and senior leaders to gather and synthesize data while performing analysis and delivering recommendations.
  • Built models to describe the past and suggest optimal actions for salespeople.
  • Furthered the data-driven culture of MFS by demonstrating proofs of concept for new analytics ideas.

MIT Sloan / MBTA

Data Science Intern

Boston, MA

Feb 2019 – Aug 2019
  • Optimized garage placement to minimize dead-head for drivers — an estimated 3–5% improvement and $3M–$5M in yearly savings.
  • Predicted trip cancellations to better understand realized daily trip demand.
  • Combined linear programming, optimization, and machine learning for near-instant rerouting of The RIDE system.

MIT Crypto-Economics Lab

Research Assistant

Cambridge, MA

Sep 2017 – Jan 2019
  • Applied natural language processing (topic modeling, sentiment analysis) to massive amounts of text data.
  • Wrote scraping software (Python) to improve and expand the data pipeline.

Intel Corporation, Intel Federal

Systems Architecture Team — Graduate Technical Intern

Hudson, MA

Summer 2018
  • Created a simulation for High Performance Linpack on cutting-edge systems to inform design decisions for new architectures.
  • Performed workload analysis on biologically inspired computing paradigms and presented recommendations to the senior architect.