Branden Collingsworth has worked a data scientist his entire career, helping to establish predictive analytics teams at three different Omaha companies, including a fortune 500 company and a start-up. He has worked on Predictive Analytics teams in IT as part of Business Intelligence, in a corporate strategy department and now leads a team of consultants. Branden has experience evaluating technology for predictive analytics, hiring and training data scientists, managing and leading projects, conducting analysis, building production machine learning systems and decision support tools, pitching predictive analytics projects to clients and business leaders, and presenting results of analysis to executive level stakeholders.