Matthew D. Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Canada Area

- Created 2 online fundraising analytics dashboards for agencies to use in their consulting work with non-profits- Have helped many organizations using a script I created to automatically append DonorSearch data to their own donor data.- I've created 2 web apps to make it easy for non profits to segment their data and predict future annual giving behaviour of their donors- I've done some very deep and interesting analytics on the US Giving Tuesday movement as part of a series of contracts for 92Y- I've used predictive modelling to help organizations prioritize donors who were most likely to give high level donations.- So far, two organizations are benefiting from DonorFocus, my web application which makes machine learning based recommendations on what to do with each of your donors in the following year.- I mapped hearing loss in Newfoundland and Labrador for the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association

Toronto, Canada Area

- Created predictive models for CAA for use in their DM acquisition campaigns - Assisted in the creation of demographic profiling tools to be used on customer databases- Assisted in various other marketing related advanced analytics projects- Responded to ad-hoc research requests from internal stakeholders.

Aurora, Ontario

- Responsible for segmenting donor databases in support of sophisticated direct marketing campaigns (mail and eblast).- Leveraged frequent donation update files sent by clients to maintain a massive data warehouse for results reporting and analysis.- Built predictive models to identify constituents in client data who were most likely to engage in several desirable donor behaviours (donate to gift catalogues, major giving, mid-level giving, planned giving).- Responded to ad-hoc research requests from internal and external stakeholders.

Toronto, Canada Area

- Used data mining to analyze client data and extract insights as to who was most likely to engage in charitable giving- Built predictive models to tag constituents in client data according to how likely each would be to make a charitable donation in the next year- Leveraged data from client, and from geosourced census data, in order to build estimates of how much capacity client constituents had for charitable donations- Contributed to the creation of detailed reports benchmarking salary compensation for university advancement personnel- Helped create numerous client surveys assessing attitudes and behaviours surrounding the client organization.

- Responsible for weekly reporting circulated to senior management- Compiled monthly reports highlighting actionable insights obtained from statistical analysis.- Responsible for tracking and reporting on email marketing campaigns that reached 100,000+ constituents.- Coordinated the creation and delivery of content-rich stakeholder surveys through Survey Monkey.- Statistically analyzed and disseminated actionable insights coming from survey results.- Responded to ad-hoc research requests from around the country by harnessing a massive repository of data (past and present) related to the Run For the Cure.

- Contributed to the design, running, statistical analysis and interpretation of a major research study on infant language acquisition.Aided in the development of a MATLAB algorithm for the preprocessing of brain imaging data.- Co-taught a seven day course to educate new lab members on the background, use, and analysis of data from a brain imaging technique.- Made computer programs to carry out important computer tasks around the lab.

-Led tutorials to help engage students in the learning and application of inferential and descriptive statistics.-Marked quizzes, assignments and exams as part of the evaluations given to students in introductory statistics.

-Ran descriptive and inferential statistical procedures on Ontario school-board data pertaining to yearly enrolment and employment variables.-Compiled graphs to visually summarize the data.-Presented and explained results using a data analysis log and weekly meetings.

-Used a digital image cataloguing software package to index a large collection of images with content relating to data visualization.-Scanned in images relating to data visualization-Provided technical support around the lab.

M.A., Cognitive Neuroscience

B.A., Psychology, Sociology

Activities and Societies: Undergraduate Psychology Student's Association