Peter Skipper

Peter Skipper has a diverse work experience that spans over a decade. Peter started their career in 2007 as a 4th/5th Grade Teacher at Westlake Charter School. During their time there, they played an integral role in improving the school's academic performance and served as a Teacher Representative on the School Board. Peter also founded and coached extracurricular activities, such as a Film Club and an Odyssey of the Mind team.

In 2010, Peter transitioned to Achievement First, where they worked as a Math/Science Core Teacher. Peter developed a targeted math curriculum, implemented after-school interventions, and significantly improved students' exam scores. Peter'sefforts resulted in 89% of students being on the proficiency track.

Peter's interest in data science led him to join UCLA as a Stat Department Teaching Assistant in 2013. In this role, they planned and implemented lessons, graded assignments, and assisted in teaching statistical programming and regression analysis in R.

To further enhance their data science skills, Peter pursued opportunities in the industry. Peter worked as a Data Scientist at Startup.ML, where they consulted with companies and provided data science solutions. Peter also analyzed large datasets and trained models on AWS for optimal performance.

During their time at Sentient Technologies, Peter worked as a Data Scientist. The details of their role are not specified.

Peter then joined Civis Analytics as a Data Scientist in R&D. Peter wrote software tools for other data scientists, developed software for personalized advertising using MCMC techniques, and engineered neural network models using TensorFlow.

In 2018, Peter joined Crowe as a Senior Staff Data Scientist. Peter led a team of 20 in developing market-ready data science products for corporate finance and healthcare industries. Peter prioritized code quality and reproducibility, created and presented trainings on software engineering best practices, and engineered ML systems for document comparison.

From 2019 to 2021, Peter worked at ShopRunner as a Senior Data Scientist. Peter built a churn model to predict customer disengagement, trained an NLP model to categorize fashion items, and deployed a custom ML API on AWS.

Most recently, Peter joined Unlearn.AI in 2021 as a Data Scientist. Further details about their role are not provided.

Peter Skipper completed a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in English at Pomona College from 1998 to 2002. Peter later pursued a Master of Science (MS) degree in Statistics at UCLA from 2012 to 2014.