Derek Norton
Cumming, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Norton is a seasoned analytics and technology executive with 13 years of experience building end-to-end predictive modeling, machine learning, and data science solutions across healthcare, marketing, and credit domains. As CTO of Life2 and co-founder/CTO of LightPath Consulting, he blends hands-on statistical rigor from a Ph.D. in Statistics with strategic leadership honed at Microsoft, where he led healthcare digital transformation and COVID-19 response projects for CDC and major life sciences clients. He has a track record of operationalizing analytics—introducing R into enterprise workflows, productionizing models, and mentoring cross-functional teams to deliver measurable outcomes. Comfortable at the intersection of research and product, Derek has also driven niche projects from high-frequency trading engines to automated reporting systems, showing a knack for turning complex statistical methods into practical business value. Based in Cumming, Georgia, he combines deep methodological expertise with proven ability to scale analytics in regulated industries.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
English, German
Github Skills (18)
directory-structure9
htmlwidgets8
revolution6
science5
standardized5
r5
machine-learning4
python4
collaboration4
binary-data3
apache3
frame3
data-science3
storage3
apache-arrow2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dermcnor/ATL_RUG
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
dermcnor/Getting-Started-with-Data-Science
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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