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title: "Karishma Giri - Senior Manager Analytics in Greater Chicago Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Karishma Giri, Healthcare Strategy & AI/ML Leader | Blue Cross Blue Shield - Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas based in Greater Chicago Area. AI stack includes notion, openai, and perplexity."
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# Karishma Giri on Tal

## Headline

Healthcare Strategy & AI/ML Leader \| Blue Cross Blue Shield \- Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas

## About

Strategic leader at the intersection of AI/ML, data science, and enterprise analytics, with a proven track record of delivering transformative solutions across complex, large\-scale organizations\. I specialize in leveraging AI, Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, and Automation to build self\-service platforms that drive cost efficiency, optimize operations, improve decision quality, and create measurable business value\. Driven by one goal: turning complex data into decisions that solve business problems and move the organization forward\.

## Location

Greater Chicago Area

## AI stack

notion

openai

perplexity

replit

## Work experience

Senior Manager Analytics at Health Care Service Corporation, Jul 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs

Senior Manager, Analytics & Strategy at CVS Health, Jan 2019 \- Jun 2024 · 5 yrs 6 mos

Manager at CVS Health, Jan 2015 \- Dec 2018 · 4 yrs

Senior Consultant at CVS Health, Sep 2013 \- Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Visiting Lecturer at Purdue University, Indianapolis, Aug 2012 \- Aug 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo, Greater Indianapolis, \- Developing, maintaining and sharing instructional resources such as Web sites, instructional materials, readings, or other resources for the use of students\. \- Serving as a mentor for advising committee about instruction, curriculum, procedure, practices, and politics\. Making a significant contribution to the development of the coursework and class policies\. \- Playing an active role in developing class projects and research groups\. \- Facilitating professional learning opportunities among staff members and training them for tutor/mentor roles\.

Statistical Programmer/ Graduate Consultant at Statistics Consulting Center, Purdue University, Aug 2010 \- May 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos, Greater Indianapolis, \- Plan CART \(classification and regression trees\) algorithm and analyses in SAS to predict the subject’s remission in clinical studies\. \- Visualize health data and build generalized linear model to identify important factors\. \- Create statistic study reports including summary tables, data listings, statistical analyses, and summarize results

Research Internship at Unisankyo Pharmaceuticals, Jan 2007 \- Aug 2007 · 8 mos, India, \- Actively exchanged and contributed ideas with Sr Managers and engineers of Quality Control to define, develop and evaluate project plan\. \- Manipulated substantial reliability data obtained from lab experiments\. \- Developed accelerated failure time model, resulting in a successful estimation of probiotic drug’s effectiveness and designing drug toxicity models\.

## Education

Master's degree, Applied Statistics, Purdue University

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