Joel Jacobs Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, US

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• As a data reporter on the Post-Gazette's investigations team, I covered a variety of topics including government, business and health
• Collaborated with other reporters and graphics team on investigative and enterprise reporting projects

Washington, DC, US

• Four-month contract working on corporate accountability and nursing home coverage
• Used SQL and Python to analyze large datasets such as nursing home cost reports, PPP loans and SEC filings

• Worked on a series of data-driven stories for The Washington Post, including several A1 stories
• Managed BigQuery database of 370,000 nursing home health deficiencies across 15,400 providers and analyzing the data using SQL and Google Data Studio
• Oversaw a list of more than 3,500 nursing homes with covid-19 cases for the Washington Post
• Used Python to scrape nursing home covid-19 data from over two dozen state websites

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Covered beats primarily focused on money and power in government
• Worked on project at Northwestern’s Knight Lab to programmatically analyze government documents in partnership with nonprofit journalism lab City Bureau

Mountain View, CA, US

• Worked on Google Ad Manager and Authorized Buyers (formerly DoubleClick AdExchange)
• Built tools for advertisers to find ad inventory and make deals with publishers
• Implemented UI for publishers to track performance of Private Auction deals
• Developed frontend components in Angular Dart and API endpoints in Java

Mountain View, CA, US

• Three-month fellowship working with local Goodwill organizations across the country on data systems to improve the impact and evaluation of their job training programs
• Developed automated data pipeline using Airflow and Google APIs to collect job training data
• Built dashboards and helping local Goodwills with data literacy in order to improve job programs
• Designed schema to make job program information more widely available to the public

• Worked on transforming board game mechanics onto multi-platform mobile apps
• Developed official iOS app for The Resistance board game
• Developed original mobile-first trading card game

Mountain View, CA, US

• Worked on Payments Communications team, coordinating with engineers, UX, and PMs
• Created Terms and Conditions widget and flows on the Google Payments platform, which is used by millions of Google AdWords users globally
• Implemented full UI stack, including client (JavaScript), server (Java), and RPC protocol
• Tested using automated unit tests, browser/screenshot tests, and integration tests

Oakland, California, US

• Interviewed residents of affordable housing and wrote profiles of their stories for EBHO's annual Affordable Housing Guidebook
• Assisted with website management and event organizing
• Wrote Python scripts on member database to assist with ballot initiative advocacy and membership renewal efforts

San Francisco, CA, US

• Worked on front-end and back-end web features to improve host acquisition and conversion
• Added endpoints to API to interact with mobile client
• Created data pipelines and visualizations for occupancy rate data

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Conducted quality assurance for parts of Brightcove’s Analytics system, which processes millionsof events per day and serves thousands of customers
• Wrote hundreds of automated tests using Ruby and Cucumber
• Discovered and filed numerous bugs and reviewed developer code fixes

Master Of Science - Ms, Journalism

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering And Computer Science