Funke Olaleye

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DISC Type : c

Senior Data Scientist at Verizon

East Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

Overview

Funke is a Senior Data Scientist at Verizon specializing in ML, NLP, and predictive modeling to drive business strategy. A Kent State University graduate, she is a Google Cloud Certified GenAI Leader and Anaplan Model Builder who has developed models creating over $3M in annual impact. Colleagues describe her as hard-working and dedicated.

Funke is passionate about community engagement and social impact. She has volunteered her AI skills to help child protection services and actively supports the tech community by presenting educational webinars for organizations like Women Who Code. She started her career in engineering because she loves mathematics and problem-solving.

She architected a real-time sentiment-analysis system to track and forecast public sentiment trends during the emergence of COVID-19 variants.

Personality Overview

Cautious & Analytical

Systematic

Price-Sensitive

They generally do not appreciate an overfriendly approach and prefer to stay to-the-point.  They prefer to do thorough analysis of any situation. While they don't hesitate to ask questions, they are generally risk-averse and tend to be late adopters.

Topics They Care About

Generative AI Adoption
Recently became a Google Cloud Certified Generative AI Leader to help organizations identify high-impact opportunities and lead innovation in responsible AI adoption.
Proactive Customer Retention
Focuses on leveraging NLP and predictive modeling to understand customer pain points, mitigate churn, and develop proactive retention strategies at Verizon.
Advanced Predictive Modeling
Specializes in building complex models, such as XGBoost for class-imbalanced datasets, to predict customer behavior and drive significant business results.

Media Appearances

Funke has no verified media appearances

Work History

5-2022 - 2-2026
Senior Data Scientist at Verizon
3-2022 - 6-2022
Anaplan Model Builder Fellow at Correlation One
10-2021 - 3-2022
Data Science Fellow at Correlation One
10-2020 - 12-2020
Machine Learning Engineer at Omdena
8-2020 - 10-2020
Webinar Panelist and Lead | WWCode Data Science at Women Who Code

Education

Master of Science - MS from Kent State University
Education details unavailable from Training and Competitions by Correlation One

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Insights For Selling To Funke

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Share as much information as possible regarding your product
  • Emphasise more on facts and measurable benefits
  • Emphasize on objective proof of ROI, help them do a thorough evaluation

DONT's

  • Don’t overhype the product/pitch, keep it measured
  • Avoid rushing them, be polite and patient
  • Don’t try to be too friendly or informal with them

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Funke is

  • Ensuring that the product delivers ROI, cost-effective pricing and process compliance are very important for them.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Funke

  • It doesn’t come naturally to them but they can say no if they are not convinced.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Funke move?

  • If they have the information that they need, they can move fast at making their decisions.
  • Can Funke take some risk or not?

  • They can take some risk if they are confident that they have analyzed the circumstances well.


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