Aaron Benz Email & Phone Number

Working to create the Pandemic Tools of the Future for the benefit of Public Health

Austin, Texas Area

Degree Analytics brings a team of highly talented individuals together to solve major challenges facing education institutions.Our team of data scientists, machine learning specialists, experienced higher education leaders and social media experts partner with institutions around the world to create scalable solutions that help campus leaders provide more enriching relationships, more valuable experiences, and a significant increase in student engagement, success, and graduation rates by utilizing timely, actionable data.• Successfully designed and built a cloud-based platform to ingest, analyze, and report behavioral insights specifically for the education sector• Developed a world class client success team to deliver timely and frictionless insights to dozens of educational clients• Deployed social distancing, density monitoring, and contact tracing solutions to facilitate reopening plans for educational institutions in Fall 2020• Successfully closed a Series A funding round of 2.7M

Austin, Texas Area

Running and Operating Zync Up, a location sharing + messaging mobile app that is focused on streamlining processes to provide you a more simplified world. Besides designing the UI and the UX, and creating presentation decks and marketing materials, I have built a backend solution with Cassandra in the DataStax Enterprise to provide an unparalleled mobile experience.This became Degree Analytics

Austin, Texas Area

Data Scientist and Big Data Modeler at Accenture. I specialize in tools like R, Cassandra, HBase, and Hadoop.

Austin, Tx

Senior Data Analyst within Accenture's Data Science and Big Data team.Accenture - Global Natural ResourcesArchitected and designed the data model for a full real time analysis stack of both meta and time-series data. Responsibility for designing and testing data models for Cassandra. Accenture - Global Natural ResourcesArchitected and built a predictive analytics platform for discovering cost savings opportunities on production equipment. Integrated multiple data sources to enable complex operations for delivering both aggregate and time-series interactive visualizations. The tools used included R, HBase, Shiny, and Hadoop Streaming.Accenture - U.S. HealthcareArchitected and built a series of standardized interactive reports for the full system error tracking pipeline for a large healthcare system. Created and improved overall business process for handling incidents based on type and sensitivity by identifying information gaps from text data. Separately, produced data metrics describing call center agent’s response quality. The tools used included R, MSBI, SQL Report Builder, and Remedy.

● Created and built successful “Program Performance Management System (PPMS)” prototype solely in 3 months with VBA, MS Access, and a SQL server backend. This program is being used to help manage, and evaluate select promotions.● Developed 2.0 update after positive user adoption demanded more functionality. Success of the PPMS prototype has resulted in company adoption and building of a full integrated system● Taught and provided support for users of the PPMS● Managed Alligatortek, an information technology consultant, for 2.0 update

St. Andrews, Scotland

Louisville, Kentucky Area

 Organized employee duties and scheduled employee working hours Planned, organized, advertized, and ran various soccer and lacrosse camps Held responsibility for cash register and movement of inventory Instructed lacrosse camps; integrated skill development with character building activities Opened and closed River City Sports Arena

-Managed and Instructed middle school kids to tournaments in New Jersey and Colorado-Expressed passion, character, and integrity through the game of lacrosse -Lacrosse Goalie Specialty Coach; Coach for Defense

-Tutored Elementary and Middle school children

Bachelor Of Science In Mathematics, Minor In Astronomy, Mathematics/Astronomy, Senior

Activities and Societies: ● 2013 United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) Scholar All-American ● 2013 USILA Men's.

Mathematics, Mathematics

Study Abroad