John O’Donnell

Air Force Officer | Data Scientist

Accokeek, Maryland, United States

About

I am currently a Captain in the United States Air Force working as the Deputy Chief Data Officer for the Air Force IC Element as well as the Data Portfolio Manager for the Air Force ISR CIO's Office. Our main focus is to establish policy, oversight, and guidance for data management practices and principles across the enterprise to enable interoperability between systems in support of efforts such as ABMS and by extension C3BM and CJADC2. Previously, I worked as our section's lead data scientist at the 711th Human Performance Wing, working on a multitude of efforts. These ranged from eXplainable AI utilizing SHAP and Topological Data Analysis for identifying important characteristics that successful candidates possess in different training programs across the Air Force to time series forecasting satellite trajectories using a variety of deep learning techniques in conjunction with uncertainty quantification, namely conformal prediction. I currently hold an M.S. in Operations Research with a Graduate Certificate in Data Science from the Air Force Institute of Technology where my research was concerned with the feasibility of using deep learning models to forecast officer attrition with econometric data as the feature space. I also have a B.S. in Mathematics with a concentration in Statistics and a minor in Actuarial Science from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Experience

  • United States Air Force (Full-time · 5 yrs 11 mos)
    • Deputy Chief Data Officer for the Air Force Intelligence Community
      Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

      Deputy Chief Data Officer for the Air Force Intelligence Community Element and Data Portfolio Manager for Air Force ISR CIO's Office.

    • Data Scientist
      Mar 2022 - Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Lead Data Scientist at 711th Human Performance Wing - Human Machine Co-Learning Section - AI/ML

    • Masters Student
      Aug 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Obtained an M.S. in Operations Research and a Graduate Certificate in Data Science.

  • Data Analyst Intern at RealPage, Inc.
    Jan 2020 - Aug 2020 · 8 mos

  • Air Force ROTC (Charlotte, North Carolina)
    • Cadet Wing Recruiting Officer
      Dec 2018 - Aug 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Organized all recruiting operations as well as developed new techniques based upon the analysis of statistics and demographics.

    • Mission Support Group Deputy Commander
      May 2018 - Dec 2018 · 8 mos

      Deputy to the group commander, organized any tasks that were given as well as ran weekly breakout sessions for Mission Support Group.

    • Physical Fitness Officer Aide
      Dec 2017 - May 2018 · 6 mos

      Assisted physical fitness officer with planning and implementation of Physical Training aspect of ROTC for over 100 cadets weekly.

  • Data Analyst Intern at Investor Management Services
    Aug 2019 - Jan 2020 · 6 mos

  • Category Analyst Intern at Circle K
    Jun 2019 - Jan 2020 · 8 mos

    - Analyzed data components such as sales, margin, lift rate, etc in order to make projections for products. Used this data to determine which products were placed in store as well as where they should be placed. - Used analysis of data to make presentation for CEO of Company to implement a new Queuing Line Management System in stores. - Used Segmentation methods in order to create new product placement strategies for fountain drinks for entire Business Unit. First Business Unit to do so, and has potential to save company $200k per month. - Updated Front Counter merchandise by using sales analysis and projection models in order to rank products - Presented solutions for Gift Card scam/fraud sales issues to Director of Marketing and VP of Business Unit.