Grant Wenzinger Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California, United States

Analytics team lead, personally focused on player evaluation.

San Jose, California, United States

Responsible for analytics infrastructure and data-driven approach to player evaluation.

Helped clubs and companies get the most out of their soccer data. Work included infrastructure design and setup, bespoke data feed development, metric creation for player recruitment, and fan engagement analysis.

Binghamton, New York, United States

2021 Season: 6-5-02020 Season: 3-6-0 (shortened)

Los Angeles, Ca

• Project manager and lead developer of the AI team's efforts to deliver live data for partnerships with the English Premier League and Major League Soccer• Product owner of player, opponent, and post-match reports• Led weekly and quarterly planning for the soccer AI team• Developed novel techniques for quantifying and visualizing team shape, team field control, and player acceleration• Built and maintained system for normalizing, evaluating, and correcting play-by-play from external data providers• Architected framework for querying Second Spectrum data by player, team, game, season, or competition• Quickly produced analysis of player contact during matches to allow English Premier League to evaluate the risk of COVID-19 transmission• Trained machine learning models to identify player and team actions, including phases of play• Created infrastructure to regularly audit the accuracy of our markings and metrics• Regularly led discussions with the AI team on industry research, and presented on my team's work to the company

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Trained machine learned models to identify individual actions using player and ball tracking data• Developed models that predict the outcome of passes

Ithaca, New York, United States

• Led newly-formed computer vision team for two years• Managed transition from traditional computer vision techniques to modern neural networks• Devised technique for supplementing training set with artificially generated images• Team placed second in mission and second overall at AUVSI SUAS 2016 competition

Binghamton, New York, United States

• Architected driver evaluation system for mining truck driving simulators• Designed interactive reports that shared mining scenario metrics with instructors

Binghamton, New York, United States

• Built tooling to simplify software deployment• Proposed updates to software engineering development process, and worked with engineering manager to implement them

Binghamton, Ny

• Replaced outdated electronics of an entertainment simulator with an embedded system• Wrote tool to translate the existing scenario file format into a format compatible with the updated electronics

• Started the robotics club at my high school• Organized and ran team meetings• Mentored students with no prior engineering experience• Competed locally in our first year, and regionally in the FIRST Tech Challenge in our second year