Russell Pierce
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VP of Engineering & Data Science | Experience Growing Data + Eng Teams to 25+ | AI | ML | PhD + 10 yrs in tech
Dallas, Texas, United States
Résumé
Jobs
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- SVP of EngineeringSpacee IncDec 2022 - Current (3 years 7 months)I was promoted to lead a team of 29 (including 6 managers) across Hardware, Software, and Devops in addition to Data Science, Data Engineering, and Computer Vision teams. We built a coordinated system of computer vision (leveraging PyTorch for YOLO, optic flow, image stitching) and data science (decision rules, logistic regression, spatial geometry calculations) algorithms to identify products on a retail shelf with over 90% accuracy.
- SDirector of Engineering, Data & Computer VisionSpacee IncSep 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 4 months)I managed a 7-member team of Data Scientists and Computer Vision Engineers in applying cross-functional approaches to the problem space. This increased our price reading, empty detection, and planogram compliance performance by an average of 9x - eclipsing the performance of our competitors. We also overhauled how Spacee processes data from primarily low observability sequences of SQL triggers and stored procedures to source controlled and centrally orchestrated data science code. And we developed an environment accessible to data scientists of varying experience levels that allowed them to write code in SQL, Python, or R and quickly get it into production.
Staff Data ScientistZapierJan 2019 - Dec 2020 (2 years)- Senior Data ScientistZapierJan 2017 - Dec 2019 (3 years)
- Principal Data Scientist / Applied ScientistZapierMay 2016 - Aug 2021 (5 years 4 months)I joined as employee #45 and the 2nd Data. When I left, the company was > 400 and the Data Team had 39 employees. In my time there, I: ▶️ Designed and executed a series of pricing and packaging analyses, including exploratory data analysis, unsupervised machine learning, and design and analysis of experiments, influencing product strategy and a shift upmarket ▶️ Built out Zapier's initial AWS data engineering stack with technologies like Apache Airflow, AWS Athena, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Redis, Looker, and Kafka. ▶️ Developed a near-real-time ML approach to A/B testing, serving multiple high traffic pages simultaneously and allowing 8x faster decision making in quant assessment planning, execution, and reporting ▶️ Formed and le
- Data ScientistZapierJan 2016 - Dec 2017 (2 years)
- Data Scientist/Data EngineerPowerInboxDec 2014 - May 2016 (1 year 6 months)
- NResearch PsychologistNational Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationMar 2013 - Dec 2014 (1 year 10 months)
- Teaching AssistantUniversity of California RiversideApr 2008 - Jun 2008 (3 months)
- Graduate Student ResearcherUniversity of California RiversideSep 2007 - Aug 2013 (6 years)
- Undergraduate Research AssistantCalifornia State University Long BeachJun 2005 - Aug 2007 (2 years 3 months)
Education
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- PhD, Cognitive PsychologyUniversity of California RiversideJan 2009 - Dec 2013 (5 years)
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A, PsychologyCalifornia State University Long BeachJan 2007 - Current (19 years 6 months)
- Master of Arts (M.A, PsychologyUniversity of California RiversideJan 2007 - Dec 2009 (3 years)
Projects (professional or personal)
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- CCognitive Psychology Graduate Student Discussion ForumSep 2009 - Current (16 years 10 months)I founded and lead (2009-2011) a forum for informal discussion and sharing of ideas (big and small) among graduate students about topics of interest in cognitive psychology.
- AAd Hoc ReviewerJan 2009 - Current (17 years 6 months)I have served as an Ad Hoc Reviewer for the following publications/organizations: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety NHTSA Behavior Research Methods Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Annual Meeting Cognitive Science Society, Annual Meeting
Awards
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- HOutstanding Student PaperHonda Driving AssessmentJan 2013Received for "3D Spatial Attention Effects are Independent of Projected 2D Size and Location for Older and Younger Drivers". I am the first 2-time recipient of this award.
- DGraduate Student Research AwardDepartment of Psychology FacultyJan 2011Myself and one other graduate student were honored with the first Graduate Student Research Awards given by the UC Riverside Psychology Department faculty. This award was reflective of our research output, research quality, and career promise.
Publications
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- HUtilizing multisensory cues to facilitate air traffic managementHuman Factors in AviationMay 2012(I am second author on this publication) Objective: In the present study, we sought to investigate whether auditory and tactile cuing could be used to facilitate a complex, real-world air traffic management scenario. Background: Auditory and tactile cuing provides an effective means of improving both the speed and accuracy of participants’ performance in a variety of laboratory-based visual target detection and identification tasks. Method: A low-fidelity air traffic simulation task was used in which participants monitored and controlled aircraft. The participants had to ensure that the aircraft landed or exited at the correct altitude, speed, and direction and that they maintained a safe separation from all other aircraft and boundaries
- ePursuing happiness in everyday life: The characteristics and behaviors of online happiness seekersemotion3DMay 2012(I am the third author on this publication) Although the last decade has witnessed mounting research on the development and evaluation of positive interventions, investigators still know little about the target population of such interventions: happiness seekers. The present research asked three questions about happiness seekers: (1) What are their general characteristics?, (2) What do they purposefully do to become happier?, and (3) How do they make use of self-help resources? In Study 1, we identified two distinct clusters of online happiness seekers. In Study 2, we asked happiness seekers to report on their use of 14 types of happiness-seeking behaviors. In Study 3, we tracked happiness seekers’ usage of an iPhone application that offer