[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Data Science Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our March (2022) Data Science Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, March 15th at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Community Leader Mario Correa, Project Manager – Implementation & Deployment at SoCal Gas who will be leading a discussion around, “Building a Platform that can Host Smart Applications.” As this discussion will be interactive we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

Learn about creating a platform with frameworks that provide a springboard for rapid implementation of new processes, workflows, and ideas. Such frameworks help to decouple IT-like tasks for business analysts and data scientists. The internal platform also acts as a stepping stone for cloud deployment.

Speaker: Mario Correa, Project Manager – Implementation & Deployment (SoCal Gas)

Mario Correa joined SoCal Gas in 2016.  He led and established the first multi-disciplinary team of Data Scientists, Data Analysts and Business Analyst for Customer Services that has implemented big data and operational analytics for the company.  He recently established the SoCalGas Model Review Board.  The board is a cross-functional, diverse and experienced core group of data scientists that provide guidance for designing, developing, deploying, governing and maintaining machine learning models which support strategic and operational goals of SoCalGas business units.

Prior to SoCal Gas, Mario worked at Raytheon Company on augmented GPS systems in various capacities that included algorithm team lead, hardware team lead and software developer.  Mario’s background is in mathematics and computer science. 

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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). For your convenience I have also attached the placeholder to this message. If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Tuesday, March 15th at 1:00 PM CT, or are having trouble downloading the placeholder from this message, please reach back out to me so I can be sure you are forwarded the invite an alternate way.

Thanks and I look forward to connecting next week!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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