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Garth Mortensen

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(612) 212-9519 | Minneapolis, MN

mortensengarth@hotmail.com

GitHub | LinkedIn

Full Stack Data Science

Full stack data scientist with a strong data engineering abilities. Love for creative destruction: automating manual pipelines, simplifying complexity, and designing clean, maintainable architectures. If you need someone who can handle the entire data workflow - from infrastructure to insights - let's talk.

Example Proof of Concepts

Prism is a platform that modernizes Risk Adjustment operations by replacing opaque "black box" legacy tools with a transparent, code-first architecture. It treats Risk Adjustment as a software engineering problem, ensuring usability, accuracy, auditability, and rapid scenario planning. Analysts parametrize risk score runs, and guard-railed AI agents interpret and process downstream results.

Live a time series analysis platform providing financial market spillover modeling. Delivers simple-English interpretations, interactive visualizations, REST and GraphQL APIs for advanced users. Constructed with a modular, microservice-based architecture, deployed via cloud, and CI/CD auto-documentation, tested and unit testing.

Professional Experience

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Sr. Data Scientist, National Stress Testing Program, Production. Minneapolis, MN - 06/2022 -- Present

  • Maintained predictive credit risk models, modeling team's bespoke orchestration pipelines, dashboards, and performed adhoc analyses for Board of Governors.
  • Built a unified linux environment setup, provided linux, database and platform support for 150+ fellow quants.
  • Introduced python unit testing, Makefiles, simple-English docs.
  • Supported self-sufficiency by mentoring economists, quants, and interns.
  • Led migration of vast Production codebase across OS, language versions, environments, enabling mission-critical reproducibility under regulator-grade risk management framework.
  • Pushed 10+ high standards, high rigor Production model releases.

University of Minnesota Coding Bootcamp

Fintech Instructor. Student Review. Saint Paul, MN - 09/2021 -- 04/2023

  • Taught Python programming to working professionals, ranging from sysadmins to finance directors.
  • Explored cutting-edge topics such as ML-AI and blockchain/Solidity smart contracts.
  • Scored 90% across all rating categories (engagement, clarity, knowledge), across 270+ lecture hours.

Medica

Sr. Healthcare Analyst Minnetonka, MN - 11/2019 -- 06/2022

  • Implemented models to predict member health scores.
  • Discovered techniques to automate database reconciliation.
  • Configured bare-metal Linux server to run automated OCR process to ETL .pdf information into database.
  • In zero-sum ACA marketplace, consistently outperformed competition.

United Health Group R&D

Developer/Data Scientist, contract. Minneapolis, MN - 01/2019 -- 11/2019

  • Replicated academic research on internal data to uncover actionable insights presented to the CEO.
  • Built end-to-end data pipelines: API ingestion, transformation, validation, and visualization.
  • Contributed to the design and development of a next-gen big data platform for health research.

Munich Reinsurance

Sr. Data Analyst. Minneapolis, MN - 05/2017 -- 12/2018

  • Programmatically scanned and transformed unstructured claims data into a structured 7M+ record star-schema database.
  • Analyzed the resulting dataset to surface insights, including reports for top diagnoses by cost and prevalence, and ML models to predict claims.
  • Built and deployed custom tools with clean, user-friendly UI frontends.

Decyphed

Entrepreneurial NLP Dev. Paris, France - 05/2015 -- 01/2016

  • Programmed text analysis plug-ins/tools specialized in language learning applications.

Saylor Consulting

Industry Cost Consultant, contract. Recommendation available. San Francisco, CA - 12/2013 -- 07/2014

  • Analyzed industry factors influencing construction industry costs (material/labor) and forecast prices.
  • Overhauled cost benchmarking using early industry indicators, resulting in algorithmic, reproducible cost setting.
  • Delivered data-driven market analysis reports and product presentations to Federal client.

GE Capital REIM

Investor Relations. Paris, France - 07/2012 -- 12/2012

  • Oversaw financial database, competitor and industry developments, financial metrics.
  • Interpreted market fundamentals for big-ticket investors seeking to purchase entire real estate fund portfolio.
  • All $25+ billion in assets sold off to Blackstone and other financial institutions.

Xinhua News Agency

Financial News. Beijing, China - 02/2009 -- 07/2011

  • Led a 15+ person international team to launch a new economics news show, working 6+ months without PTO to meet a high-stakes deadline.
  • Developed a demand-driven airtime allocation algorithm based on API-driven topic popularity; the method was later leaked to CNN International and appeared on their daily broadcast lineup.
  • The program successfully sold content to major global news networks including CNN and Nikkei.

Caijing Magazine

Economic Research Assistant. Beijing, China - 01/2008 -- 09/2008

  • Published 15+ print stories, commodity reports, and analyses.
  • Administered and redesigned website. Introduced self made podcasts, video stories, user comments, and other Web 2 technologies, doubling online readership.
  • Managed the internship program, allocated work based on strengths and interests.

College, high school jobs

Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1/2001 -- 12/2007

  • College: Owner of brick-and-mortar studio providing website design, SEO and graphic design services.
  • High school: Employee of small business providing graphic design, SEO and offsite hosting/storage services.

Formal Education

St. Thomas University

St. Paul, USA. 2023

  • Double MSc in Software Engineering and Data Science
  • Double MSc Certifications in AI and Big Data
  • GPA 3.9

EDHEC Business School

Nice, France. 2012

  • MSc Finance

Hamline University

St. Paul, USA. 2007

  • BA Economics

Skills

Tech: Python/R, databases (sql), ETL (dbt), git, linux (bash, tmux, RHEL, dotfiles, ssh), APIs (Fastapi, GraphQL), cloud (AWS/Google), CI/CD, docker containers, frontend frameworks (django), VBA(!)

Certifications: MS Software Development, MS Databases, MS IT Networking, MS IT Security, MS HTML/CSS, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Graph SQL, Google Analytics IQ, Excel/VBA, Bloomberg Terminal.

Languages: English, French and Mandarin Chinese (diminishing CEFR B2).

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