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Oakland, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Turo is the world’s largest car sharing marketplace where you can book any car you want, wherever you want it, from a vibrant community of trusted hosts across the US, Canada, France, UK and Australia. Whether you’re flying in from afar or looking for a car down the street, searching for a rugged truck or something smooth and swanky, guests can take the wheel of the perfect car for any occasion, while hosts can take the wheel of their futures by building an accessible, flexible, and scalable car sharing business from the ground up.

San Francisco, California, Us

I led a number of large-scale Data Science projects as a Technical Lead (Technical Project Manager), performing IC duties in addition to managing teams on project roadmap/responsibilities. Outside of driving value through data projects, I helped build foundational capabilities of organization by mentoring junior teammates, directly managing summer interns, developing our interview process, owning a POC with a data solutions vendor, and working with Platform Ops in establishing cloud infrastructure to enable best practices across the development cycle.Key Projects:★ Led a team of six data scientists while coordinating across cross-functional teams in designing, building, and deploying a multi-faceted product assortment optimization solution for fleet of US Mainline. Est impact ~$1.5M/year★ Drove an estimated ~$3M annually at scale by ideating and communicating conceptual framework to extend existing ship-from-store routing solution to capitalize on benefit available by drawing down unproductive stores inventory.★ Directly managed two graduate summer interns providing expert-level support in designing well-defined projects and ensuring successful completion. One intern, offered a full-time position, accepted.

San Francisco, California, Us

I owned one-person data projects and began led smaller scale project teams, being responsible for project scoping, design, and implementation. Focus areas included customer retention, demand forecasting, and non-relational database architecting.Key Projects:★ Created technical framework for managing Levi’s RedTabTM member benefits, collaborating with a large cross-functional team in developing logic, building ETLs, and design data structures within AWS DocumentDB (DyanmoDB) to power our loyalty program.★ Generated savings of ~$900K vs incumbent solution by directing team on providing tailored store traffic forecasting solution to inform labor allocation during the COVID pandemic.★ Co-led a team of four in sales forecasting project for our in-store replenishment app, driving ~50% improvement in forecast accuracy from baseline. Owned solution/codebase design, ETL parallelization, business communication, and coordination with engineers on cloud deployment/model versioning.

San Francisco, California, Us

As the owner of analytics for Levi's DTC Digital marketing, I worked on test design and prioritization, automated reporting, created proactive alerting services, operationalized data solutions to enable various marketing efforts, led exploration new MTA attribution solutions while providing technical expertise on existing, and mentoring/supporting other marketing analysts.Key Accomplishments:★ Drove $700K/year in incremental revenue and reduced churn through implementation and operationalization of an end-to-end CRM scoring model for Levi's in-house use. The new model outperformed previous out-of-the-box RFM targeting solution.★ Supported informed allocation of $50M+ marketing spends and identified methodology gaps for resolution, while providing context to business stakeholders on readout impact to prevent misallocation of spend by assessing vendor-provided Marketing Mix Model (MMM).★ Led rollout and evaluation of Google's Attribution 360 MTA solution owning data quality management and identifying/resolving counter-intuitive results with Google product team.★ Drove $1M+ in incremental annual revenue by supporting digital marketing test design and measurement for 20+ tests and advising on numerous others.★ Identified best-in-class criteria for measurement solutions and researched measurement landscape to coordinate insights taken from MMM, MTA, and heuristic attribution solutions by serving on global task force. Ensured tagging consistency across channels/agencies by creating universal campaign tracking taxonomy document.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

I performed a wide variety of data science, analytical, and business roles for a peer-to-peer used car ecommerce startup.★ Org-wide/Executive Reporting & Data Solutions - Chief owner of development, data validation, automation of reporting, and designing/conducting data UI tool (Looker) training across entire organization, later offering a voluntary SQL training series with ~40 participants. In addition to accomplishing technical implementation, worked with business owners to ensure robust definitions and uniform attribution methods.★ Adhoc Analysis - Performed analysis at request and self-initiated across a wide array of business cases to enable impactful strategy and action. Strengthened overall financial conditions by reducing per-transaction delivery fee losses by ~50% ($100) while keeping conversion stable via an updated delivery fee structure informed by price elasticity analysis.★ Merchandising - Developed quality index based on numerous quantitative indicators to both introduce quality component to formerly pure numbers planning as well as establish acquisition targets★ Marketing - Performed ROI analytics, managed mail listserv of 100K+ addresses and executed numerous targeted promotional campaigns, developed a user-level SQL-based vehicle recommendation engine informed by browse behavior, and designed/implemented advertising strategy on listing sites

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

I supported a variety of analytics projects across the e-commerce space as an analytics consultant with Mu Sigma, supervising a 10+ offshore in addition to hands-on IC work. Identified patterns, trends, and other meaningful insights by analyzing web data using various analytical tools.Key Achievements:★ Individually conceptualized, designed, and curated a VBA-based tool leveraged to inform promotional shelf manager merchandising decisions for assortment of major campaign shelves. Following this, successfully proposed a 3-person SOW for enhancing the solution which received funding approval from a senior VP.★ Provided business accessible insights in client-facing role, recommendations for analysis structuring, and actionable insights★ Performed Hands-on ad-hoc analysis and long-term project development across an array of data tools and platforms to provide business accessible insights in client-facing role

Washington, Dc, Us

Held weekly recitations and office hours, met with students one-on-one, graded examinations, and worked directly with professors in evaluating curriculum effectiveness and designing adjustments across multiple courses in Georgetown's International Economics program.Principles of Microeconomics (2 semesters), International Finance (1 semester), Poverty (1 semester)Poverty - TA'd for Professor Martin Ravallion, former Chief Economist of World Bank

New York, Ny, Us

Accepted as the only American of seven for a 7-week summer internship, working in an exclusively Japanese environment and living in an apartment in Akihabara district.RolePerformed data set construction, risk analysis, translation, code editing, and various tasks assigned by senior employees in my division (Main applications used: Excel, SAS)ProjectsAuto Budget Analysis - Prepared comprehensive budget analysis for AHA auto, which was submitted with premium change proposals to senior management

International Economics - Honors, Magna Cum Laude, International Trade And Commerce

Language Immersion Summer Program

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