After a few positions post-PhD in academic research and process engineering, Lindsey returned to Vanderbilt University for a post-doctoral appointment in 2011. During that time, she learned the art of networking and community, published a few papers in the area of type 2 diabetes drug discovery and allosteric protein modulators, and earned an F32 individual fellowship through the NIH. As she became more interested in returning to her roots of data analysis and modeling, she developed a rapport with a fledgling health start-up company. She jokes that she had never written a line of sql, not even knowing what ‘select *’ meant, and it took her 12 hours to figure out how to change the font on her matplotlib bar chart. Around this same time, Lindsey participated in Life Science Tennessee’s Tech Venture Challenge, a student-led competition to create small business plans for a technology and pitch them to local investors. Lindsey served as the pitch person for her team’s company and was hooked—the rest is history. After nervously expressing her interest in the parking lot of the Entrepreneur Center on evening, she was offered a Sr. Data Scientist position in 2015 as the 8th employee of a start-up, promoted to Director of Data Science and Analytics in 2016, and spent 4.5 years learning the business of data science, building data science strategy to support business, how to create budgets and plan objectives, and generally how to lead, inspire, and mentor data scientists and work within a growing company. In 2019, Lindsey joined Healthcare Bluebook and currently serves as the Director of Data Science. Lindsey enjoys working at a small company because you get to contribute to not just data science, but product dev, marketing, finance, or any area of the business that needs help.   

Locally in Nashville, Lindsey has made many efforts to support the data science community, serving as co-organizer of Data Science Nashville Meetup for the past 6 years (which is now almost 1800 members), participating in multiple speaking and panel events through organizations such as the Greater Nashville Technology Council, PyTennessee, the Nashville Analytics Summit, Blacks in Technology Tennessee, Women in Technology Tennessee, and others, and was a participant and graduate of the 2018 cohort of Emerging Leaders in Technology (ELITE). Lindsey was the 2019 winner of the Greater Nashville Technology Council’s Data Scientist of the Year award, taking home the coveted guitar!  

Lindsey has lead teams in creating classification models for healthcare quality applications, primarily regression and XGBoost modeling. She is skilled in deployment strategies through Linux tools and considers herself highly skilled in Python. Lindsey is interested in expanding her data science skillset to engineering and robotics applications and has keen interest in the interpretation and communication of data science outputs to a wide range of users. When not crushing data science, Lindsey enjoys traveling to national parks, running and biking, trying new restaurants, and spending quality time with her 10 year old rescue pug Bo. 

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