Myron Byers has over 20 years of experience in quality assurance, production, and supervision roles. He currently works as a Quality Lab Technician at Citadel Plastics, where he conducts laboratory tests to ensure product quality. Previously, he held quality assurance leadership roles at TBIN-West and Gibbs Die Casting, where he oversaw teams and implemented quality standards. Byers has a background in industrial engineering, social work, and the U.S. Navy. He is skilled in communication, problem solving, and team leadership.
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Data Day Texas 2017: Scaling Data Science at Stitch FixStefan Krawczyk
At Stitch Fix we have a lot of Data Scientists. Around eighty at last count. One reason why I think we have so many, is that we do things differently. To get their work done, Data Scientists have access to whatever resources they need (within reason), because they’re end to end responsible for their work; they collaborate with their business partners on objectives and then prototype, iterate, productionize, monitor and debug everything and anything required to get the output desired. They’re full data-stack data scientists!
The teams in the organization do a variety of different tasks:
- Clothing recommendations for clients.
- Clothes reordering recommendations.
- Time series analysis & forecasting of inventory, client segments, etc.
- Warehouse worker path routing.
- NLP.
… and more!
They’re also quite prolific at what they do -- we are approaching 4500 job definitions at last count. So one might be wondering now, how have we enabled them to get their jobs done without getting in the way of each other?
This is where the Data Platform teams comes into play. With the goal of lowering the cognitive overhead and engineering effort required on part of the Data Scientist, the Data Platform team tries to provide abstractions and infrastructure to help the Data Scientists. The relationship is a collaborative partnership, where the Data Scientist is free to make their own decisions and thus choose they way they do their work, and the onus then falls on the Data Platform team to convince Data Scientists to use their tools; the easiest way to do that is by designing the tools well.
In regard to scaling Data Science, the Data Platform team has helped establish some patterns and infrastructure that help alleviate contention. Contention on:
Access to Data
Access to Compute Resources:
Ad-hoc compute (think prototype, iterate, workspace)
Production compute (think where things are executed once they’re needed regularly)
For the talk (and this post) I only focused on how we reduced contention on Access to Data, & Access to Ad-hoc Compute to enable Data Science to scale at Stitch Fix. With that I invite you to take a look through the slides.
1. MYRON BYERS
1407 Alvord Blvd
Evansville, Indiana 47711
(812) 568-0080
mbyers14@yahoo.com
Citadel Plastics
10/20/14-present
Quality Lab Technician
Conduct laboratory tests to assist production in making Qualitative and Quantitative analysis of incoming resins
and finished products.
-Monitor product quality to ensure compliance to standards and specifications.
-Compile and interpret results of tests and analysis
-Conduct chemical and physical laboratory property test to assist production in making correct analysis of raw
incoming and finished materials
-Accurately record test data in database to document experimental results
-provide production with technical support
Employment Plus/Gibbs Die Casting
5/22/2014-10/14/2014
Production Associate
Press operator, operate a variety of trim machines. That trim a variety of different automotive parts
GCQA/XDE LLC
10/7/2013- 1/8/2014
Quality Assurance Group Leader
Responsible for 4-6 Team members. Coordinate sort activity per customer request. Input all customer sort
hours. Also input team members hours worked. Ensure warehouse inventory list is updated. Track all sort
activity through sort list and sort summary.
Staffing Agencies
4/23/13- 10/1/2013
Worked at a variety of short- term employment companies. Dealing with the automotive industry and other
industries.
PGW Glass Industries
1/30/2012- 4/16/2013
Production associate
Inspect and pack automotive glass
TBIN-West Sep 2004 – Jan 2012
Quality group leader - 10/18/2010- 1/2/2012
In charge a group of 10 personnel. I am responsible for the quality of the whole assembly plant. Which includes
580L seat(R2,R1,Fr,Doors), 580L injection. 397/127A injection.
Responsible for the containment of all outflow that would reach the customer. I.e… 24 hour response, posting
of quality alerts, iniating problem flowcharts.
2. Monitor any/all abnormal work conditions.
Audit/maintain standardized work throughout the plant.
Tracking of all Eci/Pcr changes and implementations.
Implement torque schedules for the quality techs
Perform department PEFF. Track quality downtime ,attendance ,and time-loss incidents.
Also served as QRE to Customer(TMMI). Very familiar with TPS, Toyota Production System and also ISO 9001
Quality Technician - 9/04 to 10/10
Door-side Quality Tech I make a great deal of decisions on what is acceptable to be shipped to our customer. I
am responsible for ensuring correct door panels that are pulled from our e-stock have the correct fabric, color,
and our free of any defects before we ship them to Toyota. I perform daily work instruction audits at all stations
to ensure that team members are following standardized work. I perform defect tracking and I perform
problem solving with the production department to solve issues. Prior to being a door-side QT I presided over
RR1 and RR2 seats where I was able to implement some enhancements to ensure our team was producing a
quality product. Before entering the quality department I was a team member on RR1 where I performed a
variety of jobs but primarily I worked in the inspection area. Currently I am the IPC-Tech for Injection Molding
Area. I oversee the 580L/397L line. Which are directly associated with TMMI(Toyota). The 580L is specially the
door line for the Toyota Sienna. Which we mold the upper/lower molds for the doors. We do all appearance
and color checks per part. For both mold/color changes. also conducted time-managed jig checks..
397L is specifically designed for the Toyota Highlander. Which I do appearance and color checks per x-rite
color matching. Along with doing CMM/CF jig checks on all parts pulled from injection daily. Which consists of
roughly 16 parts.
Injection area consist of 2-950t, 1-1600t, 1-2500 injection molding presses.
I am also back-up QRE for TMMI support. 2010 was on the 580L/397L Launch team. Help implement SDS
format for inspection standard on all parts integrated into 580/397. R/R checks. 1st
/ Last piece checks to be
completed on cmm check fixtures.
Evansville Veneer, LLC Chandler, IN 47630
4/00 to 1/04
Clipper Line Supervisor
My primary duties as a clipper line supervisor was to oversee the production of the clipper line. I was
responsible for the clipping and cutting of all imported/domestic veneer. I worked closely with the customers to
ensure their veneer was cut to exact specifications. I was the only team member elected to attend the Zenger
Miller Leadership Seminar. Prior to becoming the clipper line supervisor I was the team leader for 18 months.
As a team leader I was sent to CPS (Creative problem solving) seminar and shortly after this I was promoted to
the clipper line supervisor. I along with my team’s efforts were very instrumental in cutting/clipping the tightest
grade of veneer possible. I also became very proficient at making custom cuts and trained others how to
make these same cuts. I started my career as a line worker were I learned how to efficiently run every station
in the clipper department. This entailed loading the veneer, palletizing the veneer, running the computer
system to stage the finished product.
American Window/Glass Evansville, IN 47710
6/94 to 2/99
Remake Supervisor
I was assigned to the glass department in which I was responsible for ensuring Replacement windows were
shaved properly so the vinyl components would be Installed correctly. Other duties included being responsible
for proper casement, bay, and the correct assembly of replacement windows. In 1995 was promoted to
supervisor of the remake department where I was directly responsible for reworking all defective windows. I
had to ensure that this product was properly put back into production in a timely manner.
3. EDUCATION:
1992-1994 Attended the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, IN. I was working on a
a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Work.
June 2007- Oct 2008 attended ITT to pursue my degree in Automotive Industrial Engineering
Design. By attaining this degree it will help me pursue a Quality Engineering/
Quality Assurance Management position.
Apr 2012-Apr 2013
Went back to college to further pursue my Social Work degree and my Computer Electronic
Engineering Technology Degree. Also attended Powerpoint classes and took Excel classes.
SPECIAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
*Great communication skills both verbal and written.
*Great deal of diversity (7 years in the Naval service)
*Great Problem solving skills.
*Great understanding of the team structure.
* attended Zenger-Miller Leadership training
*Attended Zenger-Miller Creative Problem Solving Workshop
*Attended Zenger-Miller Diversity Training Seminar