Richard Woolston
Adjunct Professor at America First Credit Union
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolRichard Woolston is a data scientist and educator with 10 years of experience blending statistical modeling, engineering, and domain-driven analytics to deliver decision-support and production-ready solutions. As Data Science Manager at America First Credit Union he leads projects from conception to automated deployment, building infrastructure like Python/R servers and versioning systems to scale analytics across the enterprise. He also teaches data analytics at Utah State University and has hands-on experience translating complex methods—classification, clustering, recommender systems—into practical business outcomes. A former CEO of a boutique analytics consultancy, he pairs entrepreneurial agility with institutional rigor and has built workflows that favor open-source tools and reproducible practices. His background as a Marine Corps rifleman contributes to a measured leadership style and calm execution under pressure. Based in the Salt Lake City area, he’s motivated by finding novel, human-centered uses of data that bridge statistics, software, and domain knowledge.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Management Information Systems General, Bachelor's Degree Management Information Systems General at Utah State UniversityMaster’s Degree Information Systems, Master’s Degree Information Systems at University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (51)
data-quality10
data-validation10
monitor10
python10
machine-learning-models10
data-science10
statistics10
machine-learning10
pandas-dataframe10
apache10
effort10
validation10
scheduler10
validating10
automation10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rcwoolston/Tracker
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 month
ruby-on-railsrailsruby-onruby
rcwoolston/scikit-learn
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
scikit-learn: machine learning in Python
Contributions:9 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
pythonk-meansdata-sciencelearn-machine-learningsklearn
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