Ben Wallace

Ben Wallace

Solutions, Product, Progammer

Resume

About Me

I'm your data-driven, hip-hop-loving environmentalist! I have a strong desire to protect the world, progress humanity, and crack a couple jokes along the way. My combination of programming, data analysis, and business makes me confident that I can become an effective technical implementor and business leader.

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." -Albert Einstein

Work Experience

Tonkean

AI Solutions Lead - Tonkean (May 2023 - Present)

  • Manage Tonkean's AI go-to-market initiative by forging strong relationships with current and potential customers, facilitating discussions on business use cases, information security, and ethical considerations to ensure effective and safe adoption of AI.
  • Drive Tonkean's brand visibility in the enterprise AI space with engaging content, including short-form videos, weekly webinars, blogs, and in-person speaking sessions.
  • Support Changemakers- an annual, nonprofit hackathon created to pair operations professionals with nonprofits. At our first event, we helped 20+ nonprofits improve their data management, automations, collaboration at no cost to them!

Tonkean

Solutions Architect - Tonkean (August 2020 - May 2023)

  • Selling, implementing, and supporting "The Makers" of Tonkean's largest clients, including Google, Eversana, Hyatt, Grubhub, Crypto.com, and more.
  • Build production-ready process automations with 50+ SaaS Applications in the Finance, HR, IT, Sales, and Support spaces. If it's a popular SaaS app with an API, chances are I've learned and automated on it!
  • Doing everything I can do at a scrappy, fast-growing startup: handling support tickets, editing videos, training new hires, managing strategic partnerships, facilitating marketing events, and posting top-notch memes in #random

Salesforce

Technical IT Program Manager - Salesforce (July 2019 - August 2020)

  • Orchestrate eight teams across Dreamforce ‘19 IT Operations with aligned calendars, task lists, and communication strategies.
  • Introduce Tableau Dashboards to team’s runlist strategy to increase review productivity by 20% and provide visuals to leadership.
  • Standardize emotional touchpoints with stakeholders to establish cadence, identify issues, and maintain morale.

Salesforce

Product Analyst Intern - Salesforce (May 2018 - July 2019)

  • Develop an in-prod asset management system to simplify the tracking and auditing of the Oakland Unified School District’s science kits that features barcode scanning, real-time reports, and intuitively-designed architecture.
  • Identify and update 25% of all on-prem servers with unknown technologies for accountability and disaster recovery planning.
  • Centralize a repository containing hosting documentation of 82 technologies to provide transparency for the AWS migration plan.
  • Integrate 2 distinct IT incident reporting apps onto a live Einstein Analytics Dashboard to eliminate intake review time by 25%.
  • Awarded the "Marc Benioff Award" by fellow interns for demonstrating innovation and leadership throughout the summer.

GE Digital

Full Stack Developer Intern - GE Digital (June 2017 - August 2017)

  • Design and build customer-facing user interface for the Data & Analytics Team’s Customer Engagement Request Form.
  • Automate backend processes to integrate form responses to project management tool utilizing SQL Server, Python scripting, and Jenkins builds to reduce manual data transfer by ten hours per week.
  • Provide documentation and model architecture that is easily customizable for future adaptation and the use of other GE teams.

Projects

Can Data Make Me a Better Basketball Rebounder? Fun

Built an ML model that predicts a basketball's rebound location. I made this educational video that walks through my process and entered it into 3Blue1Brown's 2023 SoME Competition.

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RecycleGPT Product

Developed an SMS chatbot that educates users on what they can and can't recycle in Denver County.

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US Patent #11,416,677 B2 Product

Filed my first patent as the primary contributor for developing a way to embed forms on dynamic resource management systems, like Quip and Notion.

Patent Link

Lead Tech Volunteer Volunteer

Continuously support In4All Oregon in its Airtable, payment, and automation operations.

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Halloween Palooza 2022 Fun

An HTML site I built as a Halloween party invite. Cool song included.

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Steel City Golf League Product

Built a mobile web app using Glide and Google Sheets for my friends' summer golf league. Built particularly for scale and reproduceabilty.

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How To Take a Shower at My House Fun

Was sick with Covid, so I made this.

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Wallace 2020 Fun

My friends and I built this parody site for a presidential campaign. Includes graphic design, GPT-2, and actual 2020 voter information.

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