Diego Galindo

Principal Digital Product Manager

Peoria, Illinois, United States

About

Experience

  • Caterpillar Inc. (11 yrs 6 mos)
    • Sr Analytics Project Leader/Lead Business Intelligence Analyst
      Nov 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

      I am tech lead for our probabilistic demand forecasting and capacity planning tools. In this role I have - developed and deployed a new solution extending capacity planning to our supplier base, including building new enterprise-spanning datasets and setting up production data pipelines. - served as product owner for our core capacity planning tools (for internal facilities) - sole developer of simulations for modeling customer demand (monte carlo simulations, R, extensive data munging) - set up our data engineering infrastructure and trained up our data engineering staff (using snowflake, postgres, oracle, neo4j, teradata, db2, python, dbt, airflow etc) - set up our devops - mentored junior staff, including travel to India for onboarding offshore teammates - managed communications with customers and users, managing bugs and prioritizing feature requests, tetrising work accross jr staff - as needed, but extensive, debugging for varied tech stack (python, R, so many sql flavors, .NET/C#) - many special projects: supplier shortage analysis, inventory volatility, graph-based BOM (neo4j), and many data quality improvement activities tied to the above efforts but with much wider impact.

    • Sr. Technologist
      Apr 2016 - Nov 2020 · 4 yrs 8 mos

      Data Scientist in engineering division • Portfolio Manager / Steward for Virtual Product Development's Design for Reality theme - $500K-$1M in Budget, ~15 R&D projects supporting product development across wide range of product lines. My team used ML/ROMs, UQ, optimization, automation, statistical modeling, and engineering simulation to deliver internal tools and analysis to internal engineering customers. I've also worked on two major side-projects with adjacent divisions: • Capacity planning: algorithm and software development for internal capacity planning tool • Supply chain optimization: algorithm and software development for internal supply chain optimization

    • Technologist - Product Development
      Jan 2015 - Mar 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Nov 2012 - Oct 2014 · 2 yrs

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    2009 - 2012 · 3 yrs