David Waldinger Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

BeSpoken gives language learners the confidence and safety to overcome linguistic anxiety and engage in their new language. After hundreds of customer interviews and over a year of prototype iteration, we are proud to offer an interactive chatbot to practice speaking a language without someone judging you for mistakes on the other side. Focusing on.

Boston

Boston

• Identify and implement ways for analytics to contribute to decisions and revenue growth ($4.7B in 2017) within marketing budget ($500M in 2017) for international online home goods retailer
• Create and curate reporting solutions (e.g. Tableau dashboards, OLAP cubes) to give marketing department access to relevant data
• Manage multi-terabyte data sources to deliver insights and recommendations to marketing peers and senior leaders

• Developed in-house online marketing program called “Customer File” to reengage past purchasers and drive repeat orders with display and social ads, generating $50M annually in incremental revenue
• Replaced marketing program previously run by external vendor (Conversant), saving hundreds of thousands in annual spend
• Owned budget management, campaign creation, and channel roadmap as we transitioned Customer File from Conversant’s management to our own
• Created attribution methods, audience scoring models, and integrations with advertising partners in collaboration with technical teams (data science, engineering, business intelligence) to drive and measure incremental.

Boston, Massachusetts

Madrid Area, Spain

• Prepared and taught vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar lessons in public high school ESL classes in two-year program sponsored by the Spanish government to bring native English speakers into Spanish classrooms
• Collaborated with other English teachers to teach ~500 students ages 12 to 20
• Improvised more engrossing adaptations to lessons and activities to cater to varying abilities within and between classes
• Taught alongside other teachers to supplement lessons, contribute cultural insight, and inject creativity into classroom activities

• Aided post-doctoral researchers in preparing and executing behavioral and neuroimaging experiments
• Prepared and delivered a lecture to members of the laboratory on subsymbolic neural processing
• Aided data analysis by creating a MATLAB program to synthesize and combine various subject files into a master list

• Selected through competitive application process to counsel 11 freshmen with regard to academic, social, and personal concerns as they adjusted to their first years of college life
• Organized and hosted events such as fellow group dinners and birthday parties
• Alleviated emotional and health-related crises of freshmen in the residence hall
• Supported other student fellows through their counseling processes in weekly house team meetings

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Marketing

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, 3.9/4.0

Activities and Societies: Philaletheis Student Theater Company, Aikido Club, Committed Improvisational Troupe (founding member), Vastards.