Data Scientist / Legal Tech Professional

Lance
Brooks

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Summary

Data strategy and data privacy champion with over 10 years of experience specializing in full data lifecycle management. Extensive background in compliance, analysis, project management, and cross-functional team leadership. Known for leading companies' approaches to data privacy and collaborating with internal teams and stakeholders to address unique risks. Expert in designing automation workflows, optimizing business processes, and providing end-to-end advisory. Currently an evening law student, combining years of technical expertise with formal legal training to provide seamless cross-functional solutions at the intersection of business, data, AI, and law.

  • Worked with datasets consisting of 8B+ data points

  • Produced automations that successfully saved thousands of manual hours

  • Created executive level dashboards synthesizing organization-wide info into action-oriented consumption

  • Created and maintained $2B+ digital product portfolio for Fortune 20 organization subsidiary

 

Experience

Coming Soon…

February 2025

LinkedIn, Technical Insights Program Manager

September 2021 - May 2024

  • Ensured GDPR compliance for LinkedIn’s Jobs products by conducting risk assessments and providing actionable regulatory guidance to the technology team.

  • Drove a portfolio of projects that emphasized the value of LinkedIn Jobs products through statistical analysis and narrative storytelling ultimately generating $2B+ in annual revenue.

  • Conducted risk assessments to ensure GDPR compliance, addressing privacy risks in ethical AI-driven data products. Provided strategic guidance on ethical AI use and regulatory frameworks.

  • Defined global strategic roadmap for LinkedIn Jobs product through the optimization of data-driven decision making to prioritize performance metrics based on highest business impact and revenue generation.

  • Cross-functional team contributor for LinkedIn Jobs products. Primary teams supported include product, product marketing, and data science resulting in $20M+ in revenue for new product launch.

  • Launched global-scale marketing content using Tableau, PowerPoint, and Merlin for front-facing products that increased quality of applicant hiring detection by over 50% resulting in $50M+ in increased annual revenue.

  • Created custom SQL scripts to query databases containing 10B+ unique data points through efficient data manipulation

Booz Allen Hamilton, Senior Consultant - Data Scientist

September 2020 - September 2021

  • Spearheaded automation modernization and data governance effort for DoD client resulting in the resolution of $5M+ worth of misplaced government funding.

  • Served as UiPath automation SME by gathering process requirements from DoD FTE’s, creating risk assessments and final recommendations at the executive level, providing full lifecycle data governance, assessing project task feasibility, and presenting final solutions to executive leadership across 4 projects simultaneously resulting in the $900M investment of cross-divisional AI development within the DoD.

  • Provided HR automation solutions to DoD clients that merged cloud computing with machine learning by utilizing the AWS platform to reduce annual spending by at least 10% through increased productivity and accuracy.

KPMG, Consultant - Intelligent Automation & Analytics

January 2020 - September 2020

  • Blueprinted, developed, and maintained an emergency response bot using UiPath that reduced processing time by 88% from 8 hours to 1 hour. Increased daily processing capability from 200 records to 1,600 records per day.

  • Designed Robotic Process Automation (RPA) workflows in UiPath to increase the accuracy of HR compensation award processing. This process improved the processing accuracy of over $1M in federally allocated funds.

  • Created bot in UiPath to automate processes saving over 200 human hours across 11 different HR departments.

GuideHouse, Consultant - Advanced Analytics & Automation

October 2018 - January 2020

  • Constructed machine learning analysis using R to forecast future daily passenger volume occurrences using the Holt-Winters forecasting method resulting in enhanced forecasting accuracy. Predictions consisted of 5 years of historical information with 3M-5M passengers per day.

  • Launched feature composition of 1.9 billion rows of data using Hive and SparkR to compile executive presentations in Apache Zeppelin that provided direction for future analysis regarding individual identification.

  • Visualized information using Tableau to showcase findings and emphasize recommendations to stakeholders on survey respondent information to influence strategy for client population of 5,000.

American University Washington College of Law, Assistant Director of Admissions & Analytics

October 2017 - October 2018

  • Extracted and cleaned 15+ years of archived admissions data to develop strategies that increased new student enrollment by 8% (over 40 additional enrollees - FY 2018)

  • ·Created customized databases using MySQL (50,000+ data points) to analyze law school applicant characteristics that resulted in the re-evaluation of recruitment targeting strategies (team attended 120 recruiting events total – FY 2018)

 

Skill Proficiency

 

Organizations

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, inc.

University of Maryland Alumni Association

NAACP, Howard County

National Black MBA Association, Inc.

GWUL, Thursday Network

March of Dimes

Project Management Institute

Maryland Bar Association

 

Interests

Body Building

Team Sports (Basketball)

High Fashion

Fragrances

DJing

Omega Watches

Traveling

Lexus Cars

Kawasaki Motorcycles

Education

University of Maryland Law School, Baltimore, MD

JD, Tech Policy / Intellectual Property

Expected May 2025

Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD

MBA, General Management
Graduated December 2019

University of Maryland Global Campus, Adelphi, MD

MS, Data Analytics
Graduated May 2018

University of Maryland Global Campus, Adelphi, MD

Graduate Certificate, Business Analytics
Received December 2016

University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD

BA, Sociology
Graduated May 2015

Certifications

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)


AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner


Six Sigma Yellow Belt


Dell EMC Data Science Associate


Tableau Desktop Specialist


UiPath RPA Developer (Level 3)


CompTIA Project+


Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Project Management Professional (PMP)

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