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Rebecca Witmer

Principal Data Scientist specializing in NLP and Generative AI

Chicago, ILData Scientist, Owner9 years experiencePrincipalConsultingHealthcareLegal
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ML/NLP practitioner with experience building an embedding-based ad matching and search system at Vericast (BERT embeddings + similarity search) to replace a third-party taxonomy approach, evaluated via a human-curated gold standard. Also built a custom NER pipeline at Allstate for auto accident claims calls using a bidirectional LSTM and achieved 90%+ F1, with a strong emphasis on production-grade ML workflows (testing, CI/CD, orchestration, versioning, validation).

Experience

Data Scientist, OwnerWitmer Consulting Corporation
Principal Data Scientist - Contextual AdvertisingVericast
Principal Data Scientist - Contextual AdvertisingRR Donnelley
Sr. NLP Data ScientistPresto
Sr. NLP Data ScientistE la Carte, Inc.
Senior Data Scientist - Team LeadAllstate Insurance

Education

Georgetown Universitymaster, Computational Linguistics (2003)
University of Texas at Austinbachelor, Linguistics (2000)

Key Strengths

  • Built embedding-based ad-to-content matching system replacing rigid taxonomy classification
  • Designed evaluation using human-curated gold standard and top-10 recommendation accuracy comparisons
  • Applied NER on auto accident claims call data with custom entity schema and human-labeled training set
  • Established clear model quality gates for production (e.g., 90%+ F1) and achieved target
  • Production-minded ML workflow practices: testing, CI/CD, modularization, logging/error handling, orchestration, model versioning, data validation

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Languages

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Skills

Agentic AIPythonPySparkJupyterRetrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)SQLOpenAIChatGPTGenerative AIBERTScikit-learnNLTKTensorFlowKerasHugging Face