Laura Hamilton

Laura Hamilton has a diverse work experience spanning multiple companies and roles. Laura is currently working as the Chief Product and Analytics Officer at Above Lending since March 2023. Previously, they worked at Rally Health as the VP of Product and Engineering, Machine Learning from April 2019 to March 2023. During their time at Rally Health, they developed and launched a real-time machine learning platform and implemented a recommendation ranking algorithm.

Prior to Rally Health, Laura worked at Groupon as the Group Product Manager - Head of Consumer Web, International, and LivingSocial from November 2014 to April 2019. In this role, they led the mobile and desktop web discovery team and drove significant profit lift through A/B experiments.

Before their time at Groupon, Laura founded their own company called Additive Analytics and served as the CEO and Founder from September 2013 to November 2014. Laura also held various roles at BayRu LLC from February 2011 to August 2013, including Head of Product Management and Analytics, Head of Technology and Analytics, and Head of Analytics. During their time at BayRu LLC, Laura implemented several changes that positively impacted the site conversion rate and launched financial reporting systems and a unit-testing framework.

Laura's early career includes roles at Enova International as a Senior Manager and Manager of Product Management from August 2008 to March 2011 and as a Senior Associate of Strategic Initiatives from November 2007 to August 2008. Laura also worked at Susquehanna International Group as an Assistant Trader from June 2006 to September 2007.

Overall, Laura Hamilton has demonstrated strong leadership and analytical skills throughout their career, with a focus on product management, analytics, and machine learning.

Laura Hamilton has a Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Machine Learning from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Laura also holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Chicago.

In terms of additional certifications, Laura has obtained various certifications and accreditations. In 2023, they completed the "AI Practitioner: BERT Best Practices & Design Considerations" certification from Skillsoft. In 2022, they were a presenter at the "Enterprise Agility Summit" and "AI Summit" hosted by UnitedHealth Group and Optum respectively. Laura also received the "UHG Inventor" certification from UnitedHealth Group. Additionally, in 2022, Laura completed certifications in "Introduction to Apache Spark" and "Processing Data: Getting Started with Apache Kafka" from Skillsoft. In 2020, they obtained the "Introduction to Unified Data Analytics with Databricks Accreditation" and "Fundamentals of Delta Lake Accreditation" from Databricks. In 2019, they completed the "Recommendation Systems with Tensorflow on Google Cloud Platform" certification from Coursera and the "LFS171x: Blockchain for Business - An Introduction to Hyperledger Technologies" certification from edX. Furthermore, in 2013, Laura obtained certifications in "Software as a Service, Part 2 (rev Fall 2013)", "Software as a Service", "Startup Engineering", and "Machine Learning" from edX and Coursera.

No specific start or end years for Laura's degrees or certifications are provided.