Glen Ferguson
Director, Data Science & AI
Village of Great Neck, New York, United States
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Top SchoolGlen Ferguson is a Director of Data Science & AI with nine years of industry experience building AI organizations and production ML systems from the ground up. He has repeatedly turned early-stage programs into scalable practices—designing MLOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure that supported hundreds of thousands of daily requests and doubled engineering velocity. Glen blends deep scientific rigor (a PhD in Physical Chemistry and postdoctoral research at national labs) with hands-on product delivery across healthcare, pharma CROs, startups, and enterprise clients. He’s driven measurable business impact—improving customer retention by ~40%, accelerating throughput by 200%, and expanding a COE’s opportunities by ~300%—while growing and mentoring high-performing teams. A former Navy electrician and academic scientist turned AI leader, he brings operational discipline and applied research instincts to ambiguous, agentic automation challenges. Based in Great Neck, NY, he also consults for startups and advises founders through a top-tier seed firm, staying close to early-stage innovation.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry at Indiana University BloomingtonB.S. Chemistry and Biology, B.S. Chemistry and Biology at Marist UniversityBootcamp Data Science, Bootcamp Data Science at NYC Data Science Academy
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Github Skills (13)
tf-keras7
theano6
keras5
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
visualization4
testing4
javascript3
mongodb3
network-visualization3
nodejs3
tensorflow3
neural-network2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gafergus/audible_scrape
Mar 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
gafergus/CV_scientist
May 2019 - Jun 2022
A framework for rapidly testing CV neural network models in Keras + TF
Contributions:23 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
deep-learningtestingmachine-learningnetwork-modelsneural-network
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