💪 I am Paul

Data Enthusiast, Artist, and Boardgame Lover

Professional Experience
CVS Health Jersey City, NJ

Senior Decision Scientist

May 2024 – Present

  • The adventure has just started...
Kearney Chicago, IL

Management Consultant (Digital and Analytics practice)

Jul 2022 – May 2024

  • Transformed indirect logistics costs for a discount wholesaler, identifying $2M (16%) in potential savings by consolidating and analyzing RFP responses from 70+ carriers, modeling savings scenarios, and providing customized feedback to each carrier using Python and Alteryx
  • Designed, developed, and owned a generative AI solution for a leading multinational IT company, reducing data driven decision-making time for C-Suite executives by over 90%
  • Pioneered 2 generative AI PoCs in the procurement space, enhancing spend categorization and contract metadata extraction efficiency by 70%
  • Led the analytic workstream in a 4-wall assessment project for a leading outdoor retailer and built a master dataset, delivering high-quality analyses in baseline, labor models, cost-to-serve models, and internal/external benchmarks
  • Conducted E2E supply chain diagnosis for a leading manufacturing company, resulting in savings of $2M annually
SIL International (Linguistic NGO affiliated with United Nations) West Lafayette, IN

Data Scientist Intern

Jan 2022 – May 2022

  • Reduced monetary cost and training time for a translation model by scripting an algorithm to optimize training datasets and provide a clear strategy for selecting semantic domains (translation content) via Python
  • Devised a novel approach for translating rare languages, previously reliant on human translation
Purdue University Krannert School of Management West Lafayette, IN

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sep 2021 – May 2022

  • Assisted professors with lesson planning, holding office hours, and grading assignments and exams
  • Teaching Assistant for Management Information System (MGMT382) (1 Semester)
  • Teaching Assistant for Python Programming (MGMT586) (2 modules)
Shoetown Group (Shoe Manufacturer for Nike) Qingyuan, China

Data Analyst (Co-op)

Feb 2019 – Feb 2020

  • Automated inventory system, cutting manual data entry time by 3600%, using Excel VBA
  • Implemented a machine performance system to enable the company to monitor 3D printer running times

Reserach Team Lead

  • Led a team of 5 people in defining an optimization problem by coordinating with stakeholders, assigning tasks, setting timelines for deliverables, and presenting to professors with an oral defense
  • Provided C-Suite executives with an optimized model for workstation layout computable within 1 minute to minimize assembly costs by using robust optimization models in Python and Gurobi

Additional Achievement
Kearney Purdue Student Lab Chicago, IL

Mentor

Apr 2024

  • Mentored a team in the Purdue MSBA program to complete a network optimization project for a leading car aftermarket company
Suit Up Chicago, IL

Mentor

Oct 2023

  • Coached and mentored underrepresented students, fostering their discovery of passions through hands-on experiential learning. This collaborative effort contributed to my team securing 1st place in the business case competition

Analyst

Apr 2022

  • Won the 2nd place of the competition
2022 SAS Optimization Challenge West Lafayette, IN

Team Leader

Feb 2022

  • Won the 1st place of the competition
  • Utilized SAS to forecast the water usage and developed three optimization models to determine the optimal contract with mininum cost

Team Leader

Feb 2022

  • Won the 3rd place in the Kaggle Leaderboard.
  • Defined what is phishing email and created an ensemble model (SVC + XGBoost) that has 98.53% accuracy

Team Leader

Feb 2022

  • Developed three action plans for networking, education, and mental care as a key to solve the structural women representatives problems in the semiconductor industry
  • Here is the demonstrated video.
2021 KGSA Case Competition West Lafayette, IN

Business Analyst

Nov 2021

  • Won the 3rd place of the competition
  • Designed new subscription business models and marketing strategies for business transformation

Team Leader

Sep 2021

  • Won the 3rd place of the competition
  • Provided 3 piloting locations recommendations for a drone startup
  • Performed risk analysis and developed other innovative revenue streams
Special Topic Group Study Tainan, Taiwan

Research Team Lead

Feb 2019 – Feb 2020

  • Constructed 3 models with Python and utilized Gurobi to find optimized workstation solutions
  • Led a group of five people to complete a complex real-life assembly line problem within one year
  • Thesis
Global Leadership & Engagement Program in Stanford University San Francisco, CA

Team Leader

Feb 2017

  • Directed a team of 5 students from various countries to conduct an independent study
  • Provided recommendations with a website