Janae Nicholson
Manager Data Science
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJanae Nicholson is a data science leader with 11 years of experience who combines a Ph.D. in Statistics and an MBA to drive high-ROI machine learning initiatives from strategy through production. Based in Kansas City, she currently manages and scales ML teams at H&R Block, previously leading data science strategy and platform work at Honeywell and Optiv where her teams delivered multimodal recommendation systems and revenue-generating models. She excels at translating executive vision into roadmaps, building scalable data pipelines and secure production ML systems, and mentoring scientists into clear career paths. Notably, her background spans both deep statistical research and practical product impact—e.g., projects that produced six-figure revenue gains and large-cost savings—showing a rare blend of rigor and business focus.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of Saint MaryDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Statistics at Oklahoma State University
Github Skills (5)
domo2
python1
dice1
r-language1
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jenicholson/Presentations
Jan 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
jenicholson/hello-world
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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