John Sugden
Senior Manager, Modeling at Transamerica
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Sugden is a Senior Manager in Modeling with 11 years delivering data-driven solutions across healthcare, media, and geospatial domains. He combines classical statistics and machine learning—regression, classification, clustering—with hands-on deployment experience to translate complex models into business-impacting data products and reports. He has led and grown teams, managed contractors, and built end-to-end modeling pipelines and standards that improved productivity and model reliability at organizations like iHeartMedia and Caravan Health. His background in actuarial analysis and contributions to healthcare forecasting and patented algorithms give him deep domain credibility in risk and payment prediction. Recently he expanded into satellite imagery analytics and cloud/LLM tooling, blending geospatial feature engineering with scalable ML workflows. Based in San Antonio, he is pragmatic about measurable outcomes and focused on bridging technical solutions to stakeholder priorities.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Finance, Master of Science (MS) Finance at Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of BusinessBrigham Young University-Idaho
Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
johnsug/continuing_ed
Oct 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:124 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
johnsug/barkley_plots
Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:193 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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