Jeff Vandyke Email & Phone Number

Nashville, TN, US

Houston, TX, US

Responsible for transforming Vroom's Digital Experience with a focus on consumer website conversion and backend document processing. Accomplishments to date:* Transformed Vroom.com product and technical delivery with a focus on A/B testing. 2x deposit/contracting conversion improvement in first 18 months (1.3x 2H'22 * 1.2x 1H’23 * 1.3x 2H’23= 2x) *.

Houston, TX, US

Responsible for price strategy and execution of "for sale" vehicles on Vroom.com using data and analytics via analytics, automation, data and models created in collaboration with data science. Monthly reporting to senior leadership team on both outcomes and forward forecasts. Partnered with Data Science team to create and utilize data models for retail.

Austin, Texas, US

(Vast.com automotive became CarStory which was later acquired by Vroom; I continue my CarStory Chief Data Officer role after the Vroom acquisition) Aggregate over a decade of Supply and Demand data across numerous data sources including billions of photos to create data lake containing information on "for sale" vehicles. Collaborated with data engineering.

Austin, TX, US

Responsible for engineering, product and data at Vast.com

Austin, TX, US

* 10X Improvement in Data Velocity* Data Quality Processes using offshore Subject Matter Experts* Capture and processing of unstructured data for use in understand automotive marketplace supply/demand/pricing characteristics

Austin, TX, US

* Coordinated launch of major partners for Vast's industry verticals including Bing (Autos), USAA (Real Estate) and Southwest Airlines (Travel). * Grew offshore delivery management team to own, manage and coordinate projects for publisher and advertising partners with a focus on ongoing revenue growth.

Austin, TX, US

* Primary delivery contact for major Automotive customers including AOL, Kelly Blue Book (KBB) and Overstock. * Responsible for identifying, coordinating and product managing key features for the automotive platform while ensuring revenue growth, customer satisfaction and re-usability.

I help businesses at critical, time-sensitive periods perform a rapid transition from needs/requirements to implementation. Here's a few specific examples:* Automotive OEM needed a key reporting tool in less than 5 months. I designed, scoped, documented and prototyped a solution in the first month. Following client approval of the result, I worked closely.

Austin, TX, US

Led product management team in defining and launching Global Product Definition (GPD) product suite designed to align multi-year data silos spread across departments and global business units at large Automotive OEMs. Collaborated with sales/marketing, engineering/deployment and HCI/Design across entire product lifecycle from initial conception to delivery.

Austin, TX, US

Led sales engineering team in initial engagement, scoping and demonstration of solutions to large Automotive OEMs including Nissan North America, Ford Motor Company and Toyota Motor Sales.Resulting sales resulted in more than $10 Million/year in software license sales.

Austin, TX, US

Key contributions to data structures and architecture for Trilogy interactive marketing configurator used by clients including Principal Financial Group, Volvo Cars, Renault and PCOrder.com.Guided “Build Your Own Vehicle” vertical framework used for consumer-facing websites including Ford Motor Company, Toyota Motor Sales and Nissan North America..

Cambridge, MA, US

Research on information linking in an extremely long lived, highly distributed information network“Linking in a Global Information Architecture”, Proc. Fourth International World Wide Web Conference, Boston, MA. (1995) Key contributor.

M. Eng., Computer Science

S.B., Computer Science And Engineering

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