John Groves

10+ years of hands-on and leadership experience helping high-performing teams identify and capitalize on opportunities to drive improved product & business outcomes through applied machine learning and data science. Currently partnering with senior business and technical leadership to define and execute strategies to realize value from data and analytics. As Head of Data & Analytics at R-Zero, I managed a team of engineers & analysts to drive development of enterprise systems, data infrastructure, and ETL pipelines (including TBs of sensor data) that powered internal and customer-facing applications, dashboards, and analysis. As a Machine Learning Engineer at Bain & Company, I led development of scaled machine learning systems across a multitude of on-prem and cloud environments that drove $100MM+ improvements in revenue and costs. In addition to applied analytics projects, I advised senior executives within industry leading organizations on high-stakes decisions related to data strategy, organizational structure, analytics, and systems architecture. As a Senior Software Engineer - Data at iCracked (acquired by Allstate), I led development of data infrastructure, streaming and batch-based data pipelines, and applied data science solutions that drove significant product improvements, including a >100% increase in funnel conversion rates.