# Blake Zurman

Blake Zurman is a remote worker on Himalayas, Data Scientist at Pinellas County Property Appraiser's Office, based in United States.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@blakezurman

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Data Scientist at Pinellas County Property Appraiser’s Office who modernized a legacy valuation engine and verified parcel values against production.
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| Detail | Value |
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| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United States |
| Authorized to work in | United States |
| Salary expectations | 180k+ USD |
| Job categories | Data Scientist, Project Manager |
| Skills | Data Science, predictive modeling, Forecasting, Statistical Analysis, scenario analysis, Property Valuation, Property Tax Policy Modeling, Data Modeling, Data Pipelines, Data Quality, Project Management, Vendor Management, Requirements Gathering, Oracle SQL, SQL |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/blakezurman |

## About

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At Pinellas County Property Appraiser’s Office, I analyze property, sales, and assessment data spanning more than 450,000 parcels. I build forecasting models and Power BI decision-support tools for property valuation, tax policy analysis, and executive decision-making.

On Resonance, I partnered with a senior programmer to modernize a legacy mass-appraisal engine as a .NET application. I verified and improved the initial AI-generated port, matching production parcel values across 24 model clusters, and added automated tests and architecture documentation.

I also designed a parcel-level platform to model the fiscal impact of proposed Florida property tax legislation. As project manager for an enterprise valuation modernization initiative, I coordinate county staff and a software vendor and lead validation of deliverables before production deployment.
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## Experience

### Data Scientist (current)

Pinellas County Property Appraiser's Office. Jul 2025 - Present

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Analyze and model large-scale property, sales, and assessment data spanning more than 450,000 parcels using Python, SQL, and Oracle. Design enterprise Power BI dashboards and decision-support tools for executive leadership, appraisers, and public stakeholders.
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Skills: Python, SQL, Oracle, Power-BI, Forecasting, predictive-modeling, Statistical-Analysis, Project-Management, Vendor-Management, Requirements-Gathering, Stakeholder-Communication, Git, GitHub, GitHub-Actions, Mercurial, Jupyter, C#-.NET, DAX, Excel

## Education

### Syracuse University

Master of Science, Data Science

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Completed a Master of Science in Data Science at Syracuse University in 2025.
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### Florida State University

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics

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Completed a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Florida State University in 2024.
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## Tech stack

- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- Jupyter
- Python
- Git
- Mercurial
- SQL
- Claude Code
- Power BI

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