Gavin Thomas Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Coraopolis, Pa, Us

Coraopolis, Pa, Us

Supporting DSG's personalization initiative by providing customer purchase, browse, and email engagement insights to our executives and partners.

Coraopolis, Pa, Us

Building analytical strategies centered around online and in-store athletes, focusing on emerging brands and channels.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Develop and maintain robust monthly econometric time series models using external economic factors to create 24-month sales forecasts for consumer packaged goods companies in the United States, Canada, and China • Lead economist on 6 customer accounts• Presenting sales forecasts to C-suite and leadership teams to improve financial planning decisions• Reduced PowerPoint creation time from 1 hour to 5 minutes per model for 7 economists using Python• Maintaining 29 models for clients in the alcohol, food service, grocery, paper pulp, and pet food industries• Enabling clients to better understand the business logic behind forecast changes by building a template to decompose forecasts into the contribution of individual indicators over time• Improved consumer mobility insights by leading project to collect over 4,000 mobility data series • Helped data team clean indicator names, establish a geographical hierarchy, and completed other one-off data projects

Granville, Oh, Us

TA for Econometrics and Advanced Methods for Data AnalyticsGrading assignments, projects, and tests for 100+ students.Furthering instruction by holding office hours and review sessions in R and Stata. Included Topics: Neural Networks, Optimization, k-Nearest Neighbors, Clustering, Principle Component Analysis, Classification, and Random Forests

Granville, Oh, Us

• TA for CS181: Data Structures.• Grading assignments, projects, and tests for 60+ students.• Furthering instruction by holding office hours and review sessions.• Working with Dr. Bressoud to improve both the current and future class.• Providing training sessions in Python, Database Design, SQL, XML, JSON, Tableau, and using APIs.

Granville, Oh, Us

• Coauthored, published, and presented a research paper about data systems course design. • Collaborated with Dr. Bressoud on the design and structure of CS181 Data Systems, a novel course in data systems with minimal prerequisites.• Led team of 2 students creating daily assignments, chapter projects, and lecture notes for 7 units.• Presented course design to faculty at Summer Scholar Presentation.• Researched experimental computer science course design.Thomas C. Bressoud and Gavin Thomas. 2019. A Novel Course in Data Systems with Minimal Prerequisites. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3287425

Chicago, Il, Us

• Led team of 6 interns to analyze phone call data to calculate client’s cost to serve, evaluate employee performance, and display key performance indicators. • Reduced new-hire onboarding time by designing a training program and writing Integráta training materials.

Granville, Oh, Us

• Connecting students with career coaches and working as the first source of student connection.• Fostering student engagement by advertising on-campus student career center events.• Establishing student-alumni connections by developing programs that use the Wisr app.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Produced dynamic product pipeline visuals in Tableau for managerial presentations.Automated the generation of health metrics, the creation of dashboards, and data collection for Agile Scrum Masters to identify bottlenecks, analyze velocity, and measure team performance. This program automatically runs every morning at 9:00 am and sends the scrum master their data via email for further analysis to give the scrum masters ownership of their data. In addition, I created a basic graphical user interface for occasional users. This is currently being implemented for 5 agile teams and will soon be used by teams in Canada and the U.S. Eliminated 4 hours of redundant work per month by automating a data transfer from Rally to SharePoint, which reduced redundancy and improved data quality. Assisted in the on-boarding process to a new application for operation groups and interacted with a third-party relationship manager.Identified opportunities to improve database quality, e.g., column deletion, encoding changes, and naming standardization. I also created a query tool which allows a user to quickly identify which columns are in a table for various request types to assist in the construction of queries.Presented project demos to team members and leadership.