Metis Data Science Open House: Meet the Instructors & Students

Visit us at Metis (http://www.thisismetis.com/) in San Francisco on Tuesday, February 9th from 6:30 - 8pm and meet the instructors, alumni, and students of our Data Science Bootcamp (http://www.thisismetis.com/data-science).

Enjoy food and drinks on us as Data Science instructors Laurie Skelly and Paul Burkard walk you through a sampling of what students learn throughout their 12 weeks of project-based Data Science work. Megan Ayraud, Metis Head of Careers, will also speak about the career support process.

6:30 - 7:00 Register, Mingle, Eat & Drink
7:00 - 7:30 Laurie and Pual discuss the Metis Data Science Bootcamp and Megan shares the career support structure
7:30 - 8:00 Chat with Metis students, staff, and alumni and enjoy more food & drinks

Plan on learning about the Bootcamp curriculum and outcomes, as well as how it culminates with Metis Career Day – when hiring partners come to Metis graduate presentations.

Heather Lockhart, Metis Program Manager, Debbie Berebichez, Metis Chief Data Scientist, and Jason Moss, Metis Co-Founder, will also be on hand to take your questions.

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Laurie Skelly
Metis Sr. Data Scientist

Laurie, a co-designer of the Metis curriculum, enjoys building analytical tools for a wide range of clients and helping them use data to solve their business problems. Prior to her switch to data science, she studied social neuroscience at the University of Chicago, building machine learning models of imaging data to explain how the brains of incarcerated psychopaths perceive and process emotions. Her least favorite part of data science is pruning the scope of a project down to a manageable size. Actually, that is her least favorite part of most things. Laurie is currently involved in a number of projects for Metis.

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Paul Burkard
Metis Sr. Data Scientist

Paul comes to data science as a physics convert. He studied physics and mathematics at MIT before taking a job with a government intelligence contractor. There he entered the realm of data science doing groundbreaking work with large-scale text analytics via a technology called Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). In this context, LSI allowed analysts to tease out deep yet subtle relationships between entities, concepts, etc. from hundreds of millions of raw text documents. After receiving a Master's in Machine Learning, he pursued a more mainstream data science role and spent the last few years leading a team building models on user and advertising data for over nearly a billion users with Hadoop and AWS. During this time, he also taught night courses for professionals aspiring to be data scientists. Paul is a huge sports fan, and also loves travel and learning most anything new.

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Debbie Berebichez
Metis Chief Data Scientist

Deborah Berebichez is a physicist, data scientist, and TV host. She has expertise in scientific research and advanced analysis and she has helped automate decision-making and uncover patterns in large amounts of data. Her passion lies in merging critical thinking skills with practical coding skills. She specializes in drawing connections between the approaches used in data science and the challenges organizations face. Deborah has a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford and completed two postdoctoral fellowships at Columbia University's Applied Math and Physics Department and at NYU's Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences. She is a frequent mentor of young women in STEM. Her work in science education and outreach has been recognized by the Discovery Channel, WSJ, Oprah, Dr. Oz, TED, DLD, WIRED, Ciudad de las Ideas and others.

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Megan Ayraud
Head of Careers

Megan has been working as a recruiter in the tech community for the last 6 years. She is also the Co-Organizer at Women Who Code (http://www.womenwhocode.com/) & a Zumba Instructor.

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Heather Lockhart
Program Manager

Heather previously had the opportunity to work for Bigcommerce cultivating both the Austin and San Francisco offices. Heather has a Bachelor of Arts in Aerospace Administration and Operations from Oklahoma State University where she merged her passion for aviation with business. When she is not at work you can find her taking a stroll on the beach or hiking in the bay with her Golden Retriever and English Bulldog.

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Jason Moss
Metis Co-Founder and GM

For almost 20 years, Jason has worked in education. From founding a nonprofit organization in New Orleans to working at companies such as McKinsey & Company, Scholastic, Kaplan, and now Metis (a part of Kaplan), he has sought opportunities to build businesses and work with exceptional teams on creating transformative learning experiences and products.He spends most his time at Metis (1) ensuring the quality of the student experience and outcome; (2) developing the roadmap and building the team to grow the business, and (3) engaging with data scientists around the country with whom Metis can collaborate.

Connect with us before the event! @thisismetis (https://twitter.com/thisismetis)