Resume | Jason Rae - Commercial Analytics & Applied AI Leader

Professional Summary

Commercial analytics and applied AI leader with 13+ years across commercial leadership and analytics, including EMEA analytics, pricing, forecasting, margin analysis, CRM governance, acquisition integration and data transformation. Proven record of building commercial systems from zero, improving sales performance, correcting broken reporting logic and translating fragmented data into trusted executive decision systems. Brings hands-on BI, analytics engineering, automation, and applied AI capability, and 10+ years building with TensorFlow since 2016 in service of clearer commercial decisions across Sales, Finance, BI and executive stakeholder environments.

Key Achievements

€5M+

Sales Growth Personally Generated

€1.3M

UK Sales Growth, 4× Target

4→57%

Inside Sales Growth Turnaround

$4.2M

Territory Revenue (from $1.4M)

35%

Territory Profitability (Highest AU)

13+

Years across commercial leadership & analytics

Professional Experience

Senior Data Analyst EMEA

Medline

Jan 2026 – Present

Stuttgart, Germany

Own and develop EMEA commercial analytics architecture across gross margin walks, pricing intelligence, forecasting, CRM analytics, opportunity identification, incentives and executive business review support.
Build decision-ready reporting, automation, and analytical workflows across Power BI, Python, SQL, machine learning and controlled LLM workflows where they improve auditability and speed.
Support European leadership with forecasting governance, CRM quality improvement, pricing interpretation, margin analysis and business review narratives.
Lead applied AI and analytics enablement by translating technical concepts into practical commercial use cases, training approaches and governance models.
Operate as a cross-functional bridge between Sales, Finance, BI, IT and Supply Chain to resolve data-quality, reporting and decision-system issues.

Senior Data Analyst Europe

Medline

Oct 2022 – Jan 2026

Germany (Hybrid) · Reporting to SVP Sales Europe

Achieved €1.3M in UK sales growth in 2023 — surpassing target by more than fourfold, independently.
Fully handled two acquisitions end to end, partnering with the BI team on credits, customer/account-level data refactoring, and country-by-country customer matching to ensure clean information transfer and reliable performance measurement.
Led European contribution to a global applied AI initiative: built a training program from scratch that enabled commercial teams to use AI safely across real business workflows.
Re-engineered Price / Quantity / FX decomposition logic to correctly model interaction effects and eliminate mis-attributed growth and margin drivers in commercial analytics.
Resolved historical discrepancies in country P&L reporting by identifying and correcting systemic FX methodology errors, restoring alignment between local and group financials.
Discovered FX implementation defects in pricing systems, preventing systematic margin distortion across multiple European markets.
Designed advanced bonus payment system, significantly improving security, accuracy, and reliability.

Technical Delivery Stack

The tools I use when the business problem, logic, and ownership model are already clear:

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LLM APIs & Orchestration

Controlled narrative and document workflows

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TensorFlow / Keras

10+ years building with TensorFlow since 2016

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W&B

Experiment governance

🐍

Python

Automation & analytics engineering

⚡

FastAPI

Operational tooling

📊

Power BI

Semantic reporting & margin walks

🔎

FAISS + sentence-transformers

Retrieval systems

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IBKR API

Live execution controls

Technical Skills

AI & Machine Learning

LLM APIs / OpenAI-compatible TensorFlow / Keras 10+ years building with TensorFlow since 2016 scikit-learn sentence-transformers FAISS Deterministic LLM workflows LLM orchestration

Data & Analytics

Power BI DAX Data Modeling Forecasting Analytics Margin Analysis Data Governance

Programming

Python pandas SQL FastAPI VBA JavaScript APIs

Leadership

Team Management Stakeholder Management Strategic Planning Training & Mentoring Agile / Scrum

Proof Of Build Capability

Algorithmic Trading AI System

Production-grade ML and execution research system with model governance, experiment tracking, promotion gates, live execution controls, and risk-aware automation, built from hands-on TensorFlow modeling rather than packaged theory.

Python TensorFlow / Keras W&B IBKR API

AI Memoir & Narrative Pipeline

LLM-backed document-intelligence pipeline with semantic retrieval, controlled patching, and structured long-form narrative output designed around quality control and auditability.

LLM APIs FAISS sentence-transformers

AI Desktop Agent Orchestrator

Multi-agent desktop automation framework that orchestrates AI coding agents, scores transcript quality, prompts idle agents, and tracks cost and workflow performance.

OpenAI Computer Use Python Workflow Automation

Intelligent Home Automation System

Production Home Assistant estate managing 40+ devices with presence-aware heating and lighting, predictive preheat, travel mode, and analytics-backed deploy controls.

Home Assistant Python Tooling InfluxDB / Grafana

Multi-Repo Documentation Harmonizer

Python CLI that validates and harmonizes documentation across repositories using semantic similarity scoring, safe section-level patching, and multi-format reporting.

Python sentence-transformers Doc Governance

Languages

English

Native / Fluent

German

Professional Working Proficiency