David Garrard

Background

About David Garrard

I have over 20 years of experience in technology leadership and senior engineering positions covering a broad range of technical disciplines. Roles include senior positions providing capability in analytics, data engineering, visualization, reporting, e-commerce, content management, and business process automation. I have lead diverse engineering teams responsible for the full stack and full lifecycle of software products including databases, ML, NLP, user experiences, mobile apps, APIs, infrastructure, security and operations. I am a strongly believer in user-centric design, informing product development through feedback and data-based decision making. A consistent theme throughout my career has been the use and leveraging of large scale datasets, integration of extensive third-party or user-generated sources, use of NLP and statistical techniques to smooth and error correction methodology, distributed computing, massive aggregation, forecasting, clustering and other predictive modelling. This experience has crossed industries from Consumer Packaged Goods, Finance, Energy, Loyalty, Healthcare and Marketing.