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Denver, Colorado, US

• Manage a team of 50+; Data Scientists, Decision Scientists, BI Developers, Analytics Engineers, and Instructional Designers.
• Developed a BI Platform Transition strategy focused on simplification, access controls, cost savings ($300k/yr), and self-serve capabilities.
• Introduced a business performance playbook; provided guidance and ownership expectations for business performance deep dives, cutting investigation times down by 80%.
• Recommended and built the Financial Data Mart driving a 14% improvement in month-end close time. Building internally vs externally drove a cost savings of $500k+.
• Govern our most important financial datasets, known as gold data, through the use of changelogs, robust alerting, and anomaly detection to ensure these data assets are trusted; these datasets are used for our external.
• Formed Ibotta’s “Data & Analytics Community” which provides a community of growth and support through training materials, curricula, and other means of teaching.

Denver, Colorado, US

• Managed a team of 16; Data Scientists, Decision Scientists, Analytics Engineers, and Instructional Designers.
• Pioneered a critical business metric, Inventory Quality Score (IQS), which paired alongside other known features such as marketing spend, product activity, and seasonality, to explain performance across our various.
• Reduced saver confusion by developing a methodology to remove offers from specific retailer galleries when the products were not available at these locations. This resulted in a 28% reduction in unavailable unlocks.
• Built an Offer Velocity model which, based on various input features, provides internal customers with predicted units moved, budget used, and offer velocity. This data asset mitigates budget overages and arms Account.
• Uncovered cannibalization patterns, creating datasets and models to measure Saver crossover and migration from platform to platform, capturing an impact of 5-8% on critical business metrics.
• Introduced "AI at Ibotta" and "BI leaders" to drive cross organization learnings, discussions, and collaboration in the Artificial Intelligence and Business Intelligence spaces.

Denver, Colorado, US

• Managed a team of 2 Decision Scientist; partnered cross-functionally with Finance and Operations to support initiatives, providing a data driven perspective.
• Assisted with forecasting 2021-2025 company performance, building a linear regression to project future metric values.
• Worked with product and engineering to define and productionize 50+ Browser Extension events, providing the business necessary visibility to make data driven decisions on day 1 of product launch.
• One of two Decision Scientists in charge of measuring success of our 2020 Thanksgiving program, recommending adjustments to spend based on the program KPIs. The program helped feed over 3M Americans and was our best.
• Recommended our company OKR, encouraging leadership to focus on retention; built a predictive retention rate model in Python to guide retention based decisions.

Denver, Colorado, US

• Oversaw 15 Client Analytics team members; partner with CPG, Data & Media, and Retail CP/CS teams to hit $200M+ 2020 annual revenue goal.
• Managed Client Analytics JIRA project board, setting delivery expectations through agreed upon SLAs.
• Encouraged cross-functional communication, creating a partnership mentality that allows open feedback culture; Q4 2019 CSAT scores > 8/10 for each revenue vertical.

Denver, Colorado, US

• Managed 5 direct reports; encouraged and developed hard and soft skills.
• Built cross department relationships by pairing Client Analytics and Client Partnership team members, driving empathy across the organization.
• Ran a t-test analysis to prove Ibotta's value to Uber, resulting in a long-term relationship with Uber netting over $2 million in gross profit.

Denver, Colorado, US

• Worked directly with Anheuser Busch InBev; served as client’s go-to resource for analytical and strategic requests.
• Built multiple client facing dashboards in Looker, highlighting various KPIs tailored towards client objections.

Denver, CO, US

• Built relationship tables in SQL database to centralize data and allow ease of automated report creation, responsible for database maintenance for accurate trend reporting.
• Automated multiple daily reports previously generated manually. Tracked, analyzed and interpreted trends in reporting data.

New York, NY, US

• Analyzed current business structural value; collaborated with department heads to strategize implementation of automated systems to enable more efficient use of resources.

New York, NY, US

• Drove 7% annual savings in firm Information Technology spend through product rationalization.

New York, NY, US

• Processed financial transactions including mutual fund purchases, redemptions, exchanges, and transfers as outlined by Securities and Exchange Commission and fund prospectus.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Participated in a rotational training program integrating the Investment, Brokerage, Trust, Private Banking, and Institutional departments to better understand everyday tasks.
• Discussed goals and improvements with the Brokerage Manager to benefit area investment executives.
• Collaborated with Portfolio Managers to meet with clients to review investment and wealth goals.
• Joined the Director of Investment Advisors and mangers in weekly meetings to better understand the client.

Toledo, OH, US

• Calculated daily money inflow into the company database, maintaining an accurate budget and accounting for all sales received by the business.
• Contacted both residential and business customers daily to deal with billing issues while offering solutions to the circumstances.
• Embodied quality, friendly, and positive service towards customers on the phone and in person.

Springfield, Massachusetts, US

• Gained knowledge of client needs, insurance products, and retirement planning options.
• Studied for professional certification: Ohio Life & Health Insurance Exam.
• Created a Market Development Inventory for potential clients.

Bachelors Of Science, Finance

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