Developed proprietary data-driven and highly-automated competitive analysis techniques to identify key customer drivers and priorities in the service and professional service industries of Los Angeles. Oversaw a hybrid team of two internal personnel and six contractors as team lead. Responsibilities included defining scope, assigning, and managing workload, identifying, and communicating quality standards, and ensuring contract requirements were met on time and within budget.New brands found short- and long-term success including one or more of the following: 50% YOY revenue growth, 2–3x personnel growth, 2–3x price increases, and an article in the LA Times.

Conducted comprehensive discovery and positioning phases consisting of identifying and interviewing stakeholders, identifying cultural trends using Boolean filtering methods, synthesizing and rationalizing insights, and socializing resulting strategies with SLTs and other stakeholders.Credited with core strategic ideas that informed brand strategy and visual identity shifts for a leading American financial institution and a Chinese pharmaceutical company.

Conceptualized novel method to filter out automated email clicks from human clicks using Python, cloud infrastructure services, and the MailChimp API, to sharpen and highly target sales strategies.Led a cross-functional team of 4 to develop purpose-built, web-based technical demonstrations for client pitches on deals worth upwards of $300,000.Implemented a company-wide project management system to streamline operations and coordinate content production, creative services, and business development teams. Achieved social media goal of posting three times a week and reduced BizDev daily planning and stand-up meeting times by 50%.

Built GIS system using Mathematica to find overlap between Designated Market Areas (television broadcast geographic divisions) to IRI Market Areas (sales metrics geographic divisions) to make data-based television commercial test market recommendations based on retail sales.Client has leveraged my solution to make sales worth more than a million dollars to date.

Worked as ethnographic-focused photojournalist capturing America's Midwestern and Appalachian cultural spheres. Built raw, in-depth personal narratives. Engaged in multi-week rapport-building, photographic documentation, and story publishing projects.Major personal projects include a multi-month bike photo-documentary series across northern Midwest regions. See my photography portfolio at www.jackzellweger.com.

See the project and README.md here --> github.com/jackzellweger/ligo-binningDeveloped efficient multithreaded clustering and pattern-matching search algorithms resulting in 5% detector sensitivity increase.Built on LIGO’s Python libraries streamline the ingestion and linking of streams of data from experimental instruments. Rapidly conceptualized, planned, and prototyped in Mathematica.

As a learning exercise, designed and implemented a login system utilizing JavaScript and a custom-built, lightweight database stack from first principles.