James Keirstead
Management Consultant at MAIN5
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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SeniorJames Keirstead is a data and AI leader with 15+ years of international experience delivering high-impact solutions across pharmaceuticals, engineering, and education. As a management consultant based in Munich, he blends technical depth—Bayesian modeling and hands-on implementation—with strategy, change management, and clear data storytelling. He leads cross-functional teams through complex, end-to-end transformations, ensuring solutions are both technically sound and adopted by stakeholders. Known for translating analytic insight into practical business value, he prioritizes communication and organizational readiness as much as model performance. His career reflects a pragmatic mix of research-grade methods and operational delivery, making data work for people and processes. Colleagues describe him as a strategic thinker who equally enjoys deep technical problem solving and crafting the narrative that drives change.
14 years of coding experience
French, German, Japanese
Github Skills (50)
r-package10
google-scholar10
tufte10
syntax-highlighting10
edward10
citation9
text-mining8
latex8
tidyverse8
cv-template7
statistical-inference7
knitr7
dplyr7
mining6
rmarkdown6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jkeirstead/r-slopegraph
Jul 2011 - Aug 2018
Create Edward Tufte style slopegraphs with R and ggplot2
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 7 years 2 months
r-packageggplot2rstatstufteedward
jkeirstead/hygem-b
Jun 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:51 commits in 6 months
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