Chase Westlye

Senior product leader driving machine learning initiatives across Costco US & CA warehouse operations, merchandising & sustainability.

• Lead the portfolios first ELT aligned data science win netting Costco a >$740M 5-year margin impact
• Owner of the data science portfolio, including reporting, artifacting, governance compliance, privacy & security reviews
• Lead POCs in the areas of forecasting, fraud detection, & sustainability
• Review approach, model & feature engineering efforts with data science staff

0 to 1 I Principal level Data Science & Analytics PM in Lowe’s Data Science & Computational Intelligence (DACI) org with indirect reports. Role was to enable and accelerate incremental sales through the creation of a 1st party data platform, services, models & SME consolation for two high-visibility Executive Leadership Team (ELT) top 10 strategic initiatives.

• Seeded >40 partner team applications & data science models enabling >$200M in incremental sales & shrank time-to-market by >50%.
• Enabled daily optimizations of 3 OKRs & 100s of KPIs to >20 business & technical leaders impacting >200k associates.
• Collaborated with 6 engineers to build an HDFS data platform + dozens of complex ETL Airflow pipelines that tracked and tied billions in sales & program activity to millions of customers while maintaining data integrity, SLA, & accuracy targets.
• Collaborated with 11 analysts to provide ELT with ad hoc analytics as well as metrics & insights for quarterly earnings and investor relations calls.
• Maintained regulatory (CCPA, GDPR, PCI) and security (TLS, RBAC, firewalls, 2FA, encryption, policy, secrets) compliance.
• Recipient of numerous recognitions and accolades for taking action & showing courage in high stress situations.

0 to 1 Director level management role, reporting to the SVP of Digital & Martech, creating the omnichannel personalization strategy, team, cloud-based real-time platform, data, models, and integrations to drive & enable incremental sales & reduced costs through transformative 1st party solutions.

• Exceeded aggressive KPIs driving $364m in incremental sales & >$10 million in cost savings while remaining under budget.
• Provided vision, best practices, & integrations to CIO and below leaders enabling >$50M in partner incremental sales.
• Hired and directly managed a team of 6 software engineers, 2 ML engineers, 2 product managers, and 4 data scientists to build a Kafka, Cassandra, Neo4J Graph, microservice, & machine learning platform in GCP to enable analytics & data science solutions.
• Created companywide organizational transformational change on team composition & importance of 1st party data.

Lead successful end-to-end customer engagements & solutions on the Maana Knowledge Graph PAAS.

• Participated in or lead 12 PAAS solution engagements for customers in the Fortune 500 energy, finance, & industrial sectors. Converted 85% POCs into >$30M in platform sales.
• Lead 3 Data Scientists & 2 engineers to design & build 6 generic customer facing ML, NLP, MV, or UI Maana PaaS modules.
• Owned customer engagement & platform team Azure resources & budgeting (3 subscriptions, >30 resource groups).

Responsible to shore up customer impacting tech debt in the RichRelevance Personalization SaaS PMO as well as leading the custom recommendation algorithm platform.

• Reduced outstanding customer reported issues by 30%, time-to-resolution by 50%, & client debookings by 10%.
• Successfully lobbied for 6 large customer prioritized features. Owned feature documentation, demos & marketing materials.
• Deployed dozens of customized recommendation algorithms as well as decision tree based algorithm recommenders.

Responsible for the success of the greater consulting staff & driving select customer engagements on the RR SAAS platform.

• Drove 50-100bps incremental sales improvements for >50 clients and evangelized best practices to responsible partners.
• Created client specific solutions for >15 clients including Harvard Business Review, Samsung NA, Costco, CDW, and Fanatics.

1 to N product leader tasked to drive incremental sales through experimentation of e-commerce personalization solutions.

• Collaborated with an engineer to build innovative solutions that resulted in >$25M in incremental sales.
• Managed vendor co-marketing obligations including speaking at the 2014 Shop.org Merchandising Summit.
• Hack-a-thon winner transforming in-house CRM from transaction centric to customer & LTV focus