David Drummond
AI/ML Executive
Building $10M+ products and leading 40+ person global AI teams + additional engineering and design team members.
Scaled a classification platform from idea to multi-cloud SaaS generating $3M+ annually in healthcare and life sciences.
Blend of hands-on Gen AI + LLMOps (LangGraph, Rust, K8s) and C-suite stakeholder management.
Work Experience
- • Set 3-yr Gen-AI roadmap, scaling revenue from $0→$6M annual revenue
- • Conceived & launched content labeling tool; adopted by multiple Fortune-100 pharma brands
- • Hired/coached 40+ DS/ML engineers; 3 promotions to manager
- • Created audit framework cutting MLR review time by 50%. Developed "Taxonomy Governance Playbook"
- • Negotiated co-sell deal with AWS; owned platform listed as "key offering" in AWS Commercial Pharma
- • Concurrent volunteer service
- • Advises UHF president on strategic initiatives to grow donorship and support overall community health
- • Designed ML-based labor supply and demand forecasting model, saving $2MM in under-utilized labor hours
- • Championed the development of a data science knowledge hub, resulting in 80% reduction in duplicated research efforts
- • Mentored multiple junior data science professionals
- • Deployed a computer vision pipeline on NVIDIA Jetson, showcasing expertise in machine learning models for edge inference
- • Designed and integrated advanced ML platforms for critical defense contracts, outperforming existing solutions
Early Career: IT Manager (50+ team) and Top 1% Data Science Freelancer • 2017-2020
Technical Leadership
Education
West Lafayette, IN
Financial Economics and Management
GPA- 3.7
Bloomington, IN
Generative AI and NLP Focused
GPA- 3.8
Terre Haute, IN
Behavioral Economics and Mathematics
Summa Cum Laude | GPA- 3.9
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