Scott Oddo
@scottoddo
I build production AI, personalization, and generative AI products that improve customer outcomes at global scale.
What I'm looking for
I've built and commercialized AI products across Glytec, Nokia, Endurance International/Newfold Digital, Aura, Constant Contact, and Matchmine. At Glytec, I designed Responsible AI testing and validation for an LLM-powered clinical reporting module and developed a real-time model predicting hypoglycemia up to 24 hours in advance.
Previously, I led Nokia's personalization and recommendation services across 100MM+ devices in 15+ countries, helping grow the Nokia App Store from 1M to 11M downloads per day in 18 months. I've led data science, analytics engineering, and engineering teams, built unified data platforms and production ML systems, and hold nine U.S. patents in recommendation systems and personalization.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Vice President of Data Science
Glytec
Aug 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)
• Designed and led the evals and quality checks for an LLM-powered clinical reporting module within a regulated, FDA-cleared software environment
• Built and deployed a real-time predictive risk-scoring model predicting hypoglycemia onset up to 24 hours in advance, with lower false alarms than any published model
predicting hypoglycemia onset up to 24 hours in advance for hospitalized patients.
Personalization Consultant
Pepper
Feb 2025 - Aug 2025 (6 months)
Consulted on building an AI-powered personalized shopping assistant using implicit and explicit data.
Director of AI
Continual Learning Systems
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025 (1 year)
• Partnered with MIT researchers to develop neural network architectures demonstrating true continuous learning in real-world, non-stationary environments — applied leading-edge ML research toward production-relevant problems
Principal Data Scientist
Aura
Oct 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 2 months)
• Built decision tree, random forest, and XGBoost classifiers predicting feature usage during enrollment to personalize onboarding and improve retention
• Quantified feature-level causal impact on first-renewal rates to guide product prioritization and roadmap investment
• Developed customer lifetime value models and segmentation to inform go-to-market and targeting strategy
Director of Data Science
Endurance International / Newfold Digital
Aug 2019 - Feb 2022 (2 years 6 months)
• Led and mentored a 7-person cross-functional team of data analysts, data scientists, and data engineers
• Built an AI churn-prediction model that reduced churn by 10%
• Developed segmentation, CLV, survival-curve, and price-elasticity models to guide pricing strategy
• Led consolidation of analytics infrastructure and ETL pipelines from multiple data platforms onto a single Oracle-based stack
Data Science Manager
Endurance International
Dec 2017 - Aug 2019 (1 year 8 months)
Built customer segmentation, product recommendation, and behavior-analysis models that improved usability and adoption of the website-builder product. Resolved enterprise-wide data fragmentation that had blocked cross-brand analysis.
Senior Data Scientist
Endurance International
Dec 2016 - Dec 2017 (1 year)
Built an AI-driven product recommendation system based on purchase history. Used clustering to identify five key customer segments and correlated customer preference signals to power new personalized recommendation types.
Built a model predicting optimal send-time for client email marketing campaigns. Developed an NLP algorithm identifying the most effective subject-line keywords and generated cross-sell leads that increased add-on sales. Built ETL processes using Hadoop/Hive to integrate and analyze marketing data.
Head of Relevance
Nokia
Jan 2009 - Dec 2012 (3 years 11 months)
Led global product recommendation and personalization services deployed to 100MM+ devices across 15+ countries and 20+ languages. Grew the Nokia App Store from 1M to 11M downloads/day in 18 months and designed a tool enabling configuration of 20,000+ localized store versions at scale.
Vice President of Data Science
Matchmine
Jan 2007 - Dec 2008 (1 year 11 months)
Built a scalable, AI-powered media-discovery network delivering personalization and product recommendations across music, movies, video, and blogs. Led a 5-person data science/engineering team plus cross-functional project teams.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Tufts University
Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics
Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Tufts University.
Boston University
Doctor of Philosophy, Cognitive and Neural Systems
Grade: 3.76
PhD in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University with a GPA of 3.76.
University of New Hampshire
Master of Science, Mathematics
Master of Science in Mathematics from the University of New Hampshire.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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