Dylan Rogerson Email & Phone Number

Renton, Wa, Us

Renton, Washington, United States

- Develops company wide analytics infrastructure projects aimed at providing services across all product verticals. Examples include model production infrastructure, forecasting at Wizards of the Coast, AI research and AB testing program evaluation.- Leads the AB testing program for Hasbro generating substantial revenue lift across the company. Responsible for test governance, communication, vendor contract negotiation, test curation and prioritization.- Explores new methodologies for modeling focused on services. Examples include forecasting, pricing elasticity, lifetime value modeling, customer segmentation, meta segmentation, matchmaking and AI applications.- Advises members of the team on project work through running weekly open forums, development weeks and one on one project feedback sessions. Focused on leveling up coworker expertise in the analytics space!

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Currently leads the Data Lab team for Wizards of the Coast, conducting data science research and providing modeling services for the company• Manages data driven products through advocacy, planning and advisory work• Focused on the highest priority analytics asks for the company spanning: forecasting, customer segmentation, LTV, new platform emergence and applications of AI/machine learning in emerging fields.• Communicates major findings to all levels of the business from design leads to C level.• Expertise in areas of supervised and unsupervised machine learning with focus on areas directly applicable to game design and production. This work extends to knowledge/development of neural networks, adaptive forecasting, high performance low impact modeling, hypothesis generative modeling, clustering stability and survey analysis.

Greater Seattle Area

• Currently leads analytics research for digital products (primarily Magic the Gathering: Arena). • Contributes to both pre and post launch insights as well as development of investigative and production ready models.• Communicates major findings to all levels of the business from design leads to C level.Pursuing research in areas of supervised and unsupervised machine learning with focus on areas directly applicable to game design and production. This work extends to knowledge/development of neural networks, high performance low impact modeling, hypothesis generative modeling, clustering stability and survey analysis.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Currently leads various deep research projects for the Call of Duty Franchise. Recently lead the zombies analytics insights team for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. In the past has contributed post and pre-launch findings for the Guitar Hero, Skylanders and Call of Duty franchises. This includes working with studio leadership to create and ship features based on analytics insights as well as guiding a team through the creation of self-service analytics portals and self-contained reports on insights.• Pursuing research in areas of supervised and unsupervised machine learning with focus on areas directly applicable to game design and production. This work extends to knowledge/development of neural networks, high performance low impact modeling, hypothesis generative modeling, clustering stability and survey analysis.• Created and prototyped several analytically driven game systems pre-launch and developed monitoring suites post-launch in order to optimize said systems. In the same vein he has worked on simulations for several designer driven systems in order to troubleshoot and assess areas of potential risk.• Work has led to impactful game design decisions on several titles including: The Call of Duty Franchise (8 titles in counting), Skylanders (entire franchise) and Guitar Hero: Live as well as advisory work on Destiny and several other titles currently in development.

Santa Monica,Ca

• Led the analytics insights team for Call of Duty: World War II. In the past has contributed post and pre-launch findings for the Guitar Hero, Skylanders and Call of Duty franchises. This includes working with studio leadership to create and ship features based on analytics insights as well as guiding a team through the creation of self-service analytics portals and self-contained reports on insights.• Utilizes both supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods in order to extract meaningful insights from large complex datasets. Experience in analytic techniques include: K-means/median/medoids, LDA and Agnes Clustering Methods, High Performance Linear and Logistic Regression, Tree Models and Gradient Boosting as well as new methodologies to describe a wide variety of game behaviors.• Created and prototyped several analytically driven game features pre-launch and developed monitoring suites post-launch in order to optimize said systems. In the same vain he has worked on simulations for several designer driven systems in order to troubleshoot and assess areas of potential risk.• Work has led to impactful game design decisions on several titles including: The Call of Duty Franchise (7 titles in counting), Skylanders (entire franchise) and Guitar Hero: Live as well as advisory work on Destiny and several other titles currently in development.

Santa Monica, Ca

• Utilize both supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods in order to extract meaningful insights from large complex datasets. Experience in analytic techniques include: K-means/median/medoids and Agnes Clustering Methods, High Performance Linear and Logistic Regression, Tree Models and Gradient Boosting as well as new methodologies to describe a wide variety of game behaviors.• Develop framework for post and pre-launch analytics and analytics reporting for titles. This includes creation of self-service analytics portals, as well as self-contained reports on insights.• Works directly with studios through the entire pipeline of data processing: Instrumentation, Testing and Production environments in order to present structured findings and independent inquiries to Game Development Studios, Central Infrastructure and Executive Leadership.• Work has led to impactful game design decisions on several titles including: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Black Ops 2, Ghosts, Advanced Warfare, Skylanders (entire franchise) as well as several other titles currently in development.

• Compiled consumer data to formulate responses to emerging issues.• Consulted on and implemented changes to game design, web content, and application content to promote a better user experience.

• Moderate online forums for user generated content.• Create statistically grounded metrics to identify cheaters in competitions for a military-style first person shooter.

Irvine, Ca

• Performed research in the fields of tribology, laser induced nucleation, molecular dynamics simulations, acoustic bubble creation, droplet dynamics, liquid optics, and computational continuum mechanics. • Created and ran experiments independently. • Presented talks on various topics relating research to the scientific community.• Collaborated with co-workers to formulate workable solutions.