Consultant Resume
Austin, TX
SUMMARY:
Leader and advanced analytics problem solver, eager to leverage data to gain BI insights and better understand people and their decisions. Sixteen years post - academic experience designing dashboards, analytics models, working with client to manage changes, and a mentoring and motivating a team of analysts
SKILLS:
- 20+ years database science, econometrics, statistics, analytics (coding in SQL, SAS, Stata, R)
- 10+ years mentoring & directing others in data science and modeling
- 5+ years leading cross-functional collaborative efforts
- 20+ years data visualization (Tableau, SAS, R)
- Math Programming: Gauss, Matlab
- Knowledge of scripting languages (Python) and optimization (cplex), machine learning & predictive analytics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Austin, TX
Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Built multiple descriptive, predictive and prescriptive BI analytics tools in Tableau that shifted TurnKey from reactive to proactive policies.
- A model of homeowner attrition highlighted the drivers of attrition as well as actions that could be taken to avoid higher-risk clients.
- A separate market-price model shifts rates over time at different points along an expected booking curve.
- Implementing data-driven analytics alerts for their revenue yield management and dynamic pricing system.
- Online-Tableau alerts, implemented very quickly with fairly simply from a basic Tableau VIZ - have already saved them tens of thousands of dollars in the first weeks of use.
Confidential, Austin, TX
Pricing Science Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Working directly with the Global Director of Pricing to recommend strategic & tactical pricing segmentation levers.
Confidential, Austin, TX
Global Director of Data Science, Customer Success
Responsibilities:
- Designed and implemented natural pricing experiments and accompanying analysis to demonstrate to clients the value they received from our Price recommendations and potential benefit from recommended model design changes.
- Gathered, tracked and edified pricing model design best practices with which enabled SaaS scalability.
- Managed global team of data scientists whose primary function bridged between science implementation team, customer success managers and customer support
- Directed the development and execution of advanced descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics around pricing to educate the customers regarding the value of their pricing model. Lead to approximately 90% subscription renewal rates.
- Customer industries included wholesale distribution (auto parts, food service, building materials, electrical product distributors, metals, MRO & Industrial Products, Medical consumables); Industrial Manufacturing (building products, chemicals and plastics, electrical products, Industrial Products and Equipment) and Equipment Rental.
- Design, development and execution of price science solutions (demand modeling, segmentation, optimization) across a variety of industry verticals through statistical data analysis, pricing segmentation, demand modeling and profit/revenue optimization.
Confidential, Arlington , VA
Senior Economist
Responsibilities:
- Conducted analysis and contributed to expert witness testimony preparation and reports (primarily supporting Confidential ) related to antitrust liability, econometric damage estimates, class certification, and lost profits.
- Analysis covered many industries, including building materials (Oriented Strand Board Class Action); produce ( Confidential ) pharmaceutical (Yaz Birth Control Class Action), ocean freight.
Confidential, Washington, DC
Economist
Responsibilities:
- Directed design and implementation of market monitoring metrics and market power tests as Southwest Power Pool RTO Independent Market Monitor.
- Lead investigations into potentially anti-competitive behavior by market participants in IMM role.
- Collected empirical data and contributed to execution of a Confidential “Appendix A” analysis in utility merger.
Confidential, Norfolk, VA
Visiting Assistant Professor
Responsibilities:
- Lectured in undergraduate Managerial Economics for two semesters while finishing dissertation.
Confidential, Austin, TX
Research & Teaching Assistant,
Responsibilities:
- Worked with Ken Hendriks, David Sibley and Daniel Hammermesh on various empirical papers investigating music industry contracts, antitrust issues in Confidential industry, and labor time use across multiple nations.
- Organized and taught review sessions; graded exams, research papers and homework; assisted individual student in the development of research papers; and one-on-one tutoring.
Confidential
Research Assistant , Palo Alto, CA
Responsibilities:
- Supported Bridger Mitchell in his telecommunications practices, including researching pricing and competition in telephone markets.
- As a member of the economic litigation department, supported expert testimony in a variety of merger and antitrust cases. Cases involved grocery, office supply. drugstore, airline, sport entertainment, and telecommunication industries.