KORI SMITH
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kori1992 • korismith.kls@gmail.com • +1 (530) 351-8034 • Madison, WI
EDUCATION
• MEng in Computational Fluid Dynamics Cranfield University, UK
• BSc in Pure & Applied Mathematics Purdue University, IN
SKILLS
Programming: Python, R, JavaScript, Fortran 90, MATLAB
Systems & Software: Azure, Salesforce, Maximo, Domino, JIRA, Git
Data Analytics: SQL, Presto, Daiquery, Power BI, Tableau, Unidash, Hive
Data Engineering: ETL, Data Warehouse Solutions (SSIS, SSMS)
Data Science: A/B Testing, SAS, Data Stratification, NLP/LLMs, Cohort Analysis, Forecasting, Simulation
EXPERIENCE
Outlier AI Mar 2024 – Current
AI Trainer – Mathematics / Senior Reviewer
• Train LLMs in algebra, geometry, calculus, linear algebra, complex analysis, and combinatorics
• Formulate unique problems and creative math- & reasoning- focused conversations
• Work in diversity of projects and roles, including training multi-modal and text-to-speech LLMs
Capgemini North America Aug 2020 – May 2023
Data Science Consultant
• Data migration and integration activities on user & asset data
• Application of ML concepts in both project work and development of in-house tools
• Liaison between functional teams setting goals and technical teams implementing solutions
• Building, optimization, and maintenance of ETL pipelines, data dashboards, and ML models
• Monitoring of ongoing workloads while providing hypercare on project deliveries
Norwegian University of Science and Technology Jan 2018 – Apr 2020
Aerospace Engineer
• Systems engineering and experimental design in fluidics laboratory
• Data collection, stratification, and real-time post-processing of results collected
• Data cleansing and modeling to reconstruct acoustic profiles and flow physics
• Data visualization for diagnostics and reporting of results from experiments & simulations
Cranfield University Oct 2015 – Jun 2017
Graduate Researcher
• Study of various ML techniques that supplement the modeling of complicated fluid dynamics
• Numerical methods, high-performance computing, and numerical modeling for fluid flows
• Generalized management of uncertainty, validation, and verification for ML models & simulations
CONSULTING PROJECTS
American Multinational Technology Conglomerate Data Analyst
• Creation of big data pipelines, KPI dashboards, and performance-monitoring diagnostic tools
• Optimization strategies for pipelines linking petabyte-scale tables of sensitive user data with complicated filter and join conditions
• Data auditing to verify and address integrity & security issues associated with older and/or unmaintained upstream pipelines
British Multinational Electric and Gas Utilities Company Data Engineer
• Landing-to-Load SSIS package conversion unit testing
• Data cleansing and master data management activities to build complete customer profiles out of messy and incomplete datasets
• Drove functional requirements gathering, led data mapping efforts, and provided hypercare
Multinational IT Services and Consulting Company Data Scientist
• Product sales forecasting, sentiment analysis, NLP chatbot AI work
• Deployed solutions using low-code AI platform Microsoft Project Bonsai