Andrew Placona

Andrew Placona's work experience includes the following roles:

- Director of Advanced Analytics at Evergreen Nephrology starting in 2022.

- Data Science Manager at United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) from 2018 to 2022. In this role, they built and led a team of data scientists to analyze big and unstructured data for health services and medical decision making problems in solid organ transplantation. Andrew also developed research designs and analytical tools using big data, machine learning, and statistical techniques.

- Lead Data Scientist at Evolent Health from 2018 to 2018.

- Associate Director of Predictive Modeling at Evolent Health from 2015 to 2018.

- Senior Data Analyst, Sr. Business Analyst, and Business Analyst at Capital One from 2011 to 2015.

Andrew Placona completed their Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in History and Music at Roanoke College from 2005 to 2009. Andrew then went on to pursue a Master of Science (M.S.) in Public Policy Analysis from Carnegie Mellon University, which they completed from 2009 to 2011. Later, they pursued a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in health services organization and research from Virginia Commonwealth University, although the start year and end year are not provided.

In terms of additional certifications, Andrew obtained several certificates. Andrew completed Text Mining and Analytics, Cluster Analysis in Data Mining, Text Retrieval and Search Engines, and Pattern Discovery in Data Mining, all through Coursera Verified Certificates in 2015. In 2014, they obtained certificates in Machine Learning, R Programming, and The Data Scientist's Toolbox, all through Coursera Verified Certificates. The institution for StatLearning Statistical Learning is not specified. Andrew also completed the Algorithmic Toolbox course through Coursera, but the details regarding the obtained month and year are not provided. Andrew has additional certifications in Cloudera Data Analyst Training, Data Structures by University of California, San Diego & Higher School of Economics on Coursera, Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree, edX Verified Certificate for Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark, and edX Verified Certificate for Scalable Machine Learning. However, the details of the obtained month and year for these certifications are not provided.