Steve Ward
Senior Project Manager | AI and Business Leader | IT Transformation Expert
Summary
Strategic technology leader with 20+ years managing complex IT projects at Fortune 100 companies including Dell, Boeing, and Honeywell. Recently completed University of Texas AI and Machine Learning program to bridge traditional IT expertise with cutting-edge AI applications. Specialized in translating business needs into technical solutions and leading cross-functional teams to deliver measurable results.
Project Management Skills:
Project Leadership, Strategic Planning, Cross-Functional Team Management, Client Relations, Budget Management
Portfolio
Project
Automation – Boat Alerting System Prototype
Description
Self-funded project. Device for alerting boat owners of critical conditions for batteries and high/low temperature. Two way communication logic between device and cell phone. Based on Arduino and C++ with 2G for data comms.
NLP / LLMs – Stock Market News Sentiment Analysis
An LLM-based sentiment analysis system to analyze and summarize stock market news using transformers and prompt engineering. Python + Llama, GloVe.
Neural Networks – Customer Churn Prediction
Trained neural networks and ensemble models (random forest, boosting) to predict credit card and bank customer churn. Python + Adam + SMOTE + TensorFlow + SKLearn.
Decision Trees – Personal Loan Campaign
Decision tree classifier to identify potential bank loan customers based on key behavioral and demographic features. Python + SKLearn + Gradient Boosting + Random Forest.
Computer Vision – Predict Covid-19 Cases from X-ray imaging.
Image classifier to detect Covid-19 versus normal versus non-Covid virus. Python + Numpy + Pandas + Tensorflow/Keras + Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) + Adam Optimizer. Model result: accuracy: 0.9412