Lee Griffin

Strategic Project Manager | AI/ML Training Expert

Turning complex data into strategic insights

Lee Griffin

About Me

Strategic professional with over 6 years of experience driving operational excellence and product quality for autonomous vehicle AI/ML programs. Master's in Economics with a proven track record of managing high-complexity projects at the intersection of technical engineering and business strategy. Expert in SQL (PrestoDB, Postgres) for querying large datasets, building automated dashboards and delivering actionable recommendations to stakeholders.

Professional Experience

Project Manager I & II
Aurora Innovation
January 2021 - Current
  • Own end to end outcomes: Led the planning, execution, and end-to-end delivery of a portfolio of large scale AI/ML data labeling projects, acting as the team's central coordinator to remove roadblocks and deliver results.
  • Manage the Training Data Pipeline and AI Operations Programs: Writing SQL and creating Mode dashboards to analyze performance, implement process improvements, and ensure high quality data delivery.
  • Define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Develop strategic roadmaps to track product objectives and outcomes, consistently demonstrating a bias toward execution.
  • Stakeholder Alignment: Synthesize complex technical requirements and provide project updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment and facilitating decision making across teams.
  • Ensuring Data Quality: Collaborated with machine learning engineers and team leads to identify potential risks in training data, mitigating labeling bias and improving product quality.
Senior MAPs Production Specialist, Advanced Technologies Group
Uber ATG (acquired by Aurora Innovation)
June 2019 - January 2021
  • Global Team Leadership: Led onboarding and creation of a 100+ person business process outsourcing (BPO) team in Manila.
  • Managed AI/ML Labeling: Managed training data projects mostly for the R&D team that would be used to experiment with different kinds of training data.
  • Strategic Capacity Planning: Developed plans that included: an analysis of the quality of training data, a cost benefit analyses for training data projects, and labeling capacity planning.
  • Data Analysis & Storytelling: Utilized R/RStudio and SQL to perform project data analysis, leveraging insights to tell a story and influence product direction.
Quality Assurance Analyst
Mighty AI (acquired by Uber ATG)
July 2018 - June 2019
  • Technical Compliance: Monitored testing procedures to ensure all tests are performed according to established item specifications, standard test methods, or protocols.
  • Process Validation: Performed validations or transfers of analytical methods in accordance with applicable policies or guidelines.

Professional Skills

Management Skills

Program & Project Management Agile/Scrum Stakeholder Management Managing Remote Teams Quantitative Research Data Analysis Data Delivery Strategic Planning KPI Development Risk Mitigation

Technical Skills

SQL (Postgres, Snowflake, Athena, PrestoDB) JQL Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence) R (RStudio) Advanced Excel Dashboarding (Mode, Redash, Periscope) Smartsheets Claude/Co-pilot Tableau PowerPoint Statistical Modeling AI/ML Ops

Education

Masters in Economics
California State University, Long Beach
NCAA Division One Water Polo
Program topics: Econometrics, statistical modeling, and quantitative research
Bachelors in Economics
California State University, Long Beach
NCAA Division One Water Polo

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Databricks Fundamentals
Databricks
Generative AI Fundamentals
Databricks
Data Landscape of GenAI for Project Managers
Project Management Institute
Generative AI for Project Managers
Project Management Institute

Awards & Achievements

Eagle Scout

Connect With Me

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