Mike Stringer
Advisor Fractional Leader at Mike Stringer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Stringer is a data science and design leader who advises organizations as a fractional leader, drawing on 12+ years of experience building and scaling interdisciplinary teams. He co-founded Datascope Analytics and later served as Executive Director and Partner at IDEO, where he combined human-centered design with applied AI to solve complex business problems for clients like Google and P&G. Mike’s work sits at the intersection of people, data, and systems—he focuses on creating conditions for teams to thrive, not just delivering models or artifacts. His academic background (PhD in Physics) and roles advising universities and civic organizations reflect a pattern-mapping approach to problems that surfaces non-obvious leverage points. Based in Chicago, he brings both startup grit and large-firm leadership to short-term engagements that need strategic direction and hands-on execution.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physics, PhD Physics at Northwestern UniversityBS Engineering Physics, BS Engineering Physics at University of Colorado Boulder
Stackoverflow
2,272reputation
241kreached
17answers
13questions
scrapy
top-5%
python
top-5%
Github Skills (85)
charts9
markov9
api9
data-visualization9
exploratory9
python9
svg9
scrapy9
visualization9
time-series9
twitter-api9
hidden9
dotnet8
twitter8
javascript8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
datascopeanalytics/datascope-tools
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 20 pushes in 11 months
stringertheory/setup
Nov 2015 - Dec 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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