Summary
Monica Puerto is a Data Science Manager with a decade of experience turning complex data into actionable insights across federal services, nonprofit, travel, and media industries. She holds an MS in Data Science and is AWS ML certified, blending strong statistical foundations with hands-on machine learning, NLP, and production data engineering. At Accenture she progressed from analytics roles into management, leading models and pipelines that support mission-critical decisions for federal clients. Her background spans end-to-end analytics—ETL, model oversight (GLM, Random Forest, KNN), survey weighting, and dashboarding—combined with practical cloud experience on AWS (S3, Redshift, EC2). A former adjunct professor and speaker, she brings both teaching and stakeholder-facing communication skills to translate technical work into business impact. Outside work she positions herself as a data activist and maintains a public portfolio at monicapuerto.com.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at American University
Associate's degree 2010, Associate's degree 2010 at Florida International University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Double Major - Marketing and Finance, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Double Major - Marketing and Finance at Florida State University - College of Business
Spanish, Italian, English