Mark Howison
Principal, Workforce Research & Development at FutureFit AI
Portland, Maine Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolMark Howison is a Director of Data & AI with a 17-year track record of building production AI/ML systems and leading cross-functional teams in both public sector and enterprise contexts. He has architected secure, large-scale data platforms (including FISMA/HIPAA-compliant lakes) and deployed mission-critical AI products—from rapid emergency benefits systems to state-wide recommendation engines and LLM-based RAG solutions. At Amazon he translated technical science into executive-ready reports and best practices for hundreds of practitioners, and at RIPL he combined causal inference, NLP, and bioinformatics to drive measurable public-health and policy outcomes. Known as a pragmatic technical leader and mentor, he blends deep research roots (MS CS, bioinformatics and HPC experience) with product-focused delivery and an emphasis on trustworthy, governance-aware AI.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at Brown University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (41)
sockit10
classification9
pandas-dataframe7
statistics7
natural-language-processing7
openmp6
jupyter-notebook6
macos6
parallel-processing6
dataframes6
exploratory-data-analysis6
python6
dataframe6
eda6
azuread6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kantorlab/hivmmer
Sep 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:6 releases, 95 commits, 83 pushes in 1 year 8 months
ripl-org/sirad
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
SIRAD: Secure Infrastructure for Research with Administrative Data
Contributions:5 releases, 73 commits, 76 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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