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Kat Bunch

Springdale

Summary

Accomplished Staff Data Scientist at Walmart with a desire to learn and a strong ability to communicate complex concepts effectively. Developed innovative ML/NLP models that enhanced safety, compliance and investigations, improving the business capability to adapt and grow to a constantly changing regulatory and safety environment.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Staff Data Scientist

Walmart
01.2022 - Current

Developed end to end solutions for projects in the Global Governance space. This included:

  • Built data pipelines using SQL, Python, Elasticsearch.
  • Developed supervised and unsupervised machine learning models, applying regression, SVM, clustering, NLP (tokenization, embeddings, transformers), network analysis and LLM agents for text classification and automation.
  • Built interactive Rshiny applications used for case management and review of model outputs.

Projects include:

  • Developed ML/NLP models by leveraging internal data to proactively identify risks, built data engineering pipelines, and created applications for end users, thereby enhancing the safety of customers and associates. This work led to the establishment of a new team and received board-level visibility. Cross-collaboartion was fostered with various departments, including Global Security, Global Investigations, Global Ethics, Global People, Global Technology, Privacy and Legal.
  • Developed ML pipeline to identify items where sellers are potentially gaming compliance rules in item information.
  • Developed LLM agent that identified and classified items with hazardous materials and processed them further downstream, reduced the number of items humans need to review.

Staff Data Analyst

Walmart
06.2017 - 01.2022

Built dashboard with Tableau using transactional data looking into Organized Retail Crime activity in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.

Instructor

University of Arkansas
08.2015 - 05.2017

Taught and designed mathematics courses on a wide range of topics including College Algebra, Business Statistics, Business Calculus and Mathematics for Educators.

Education

Graduate Certificate - Business Analytics

University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR
05-2017

Master of Science - Mathematics

University of Arkansas
Fayetteville
05-2014

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Arkansas Tech University
Russellville, AR
05-2012

Skills

  • Problem Solving
  • Communication
  • Adaptability
  • LLM Agent
  • Python programming
  • Machine learning
  • SQL
  • Statistical analysis

Timeline

Staff Data Scientist

Walmart
01.2022 - Current

Staff Data Analyst

Walmart
06.2017 - 01.2022

Instructor

University of Arkansas
08.2015 - 05.2017

Graduate Certificate - Business Analytics

University of Arkansas

Master of Science - Mathematics

University of Arkansas

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Arkansas Tech University
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