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Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) provides coverage and rehabilitation assistance for New Zealanders injured in an accident as well as information for injury/reinjury prevention.• Utilise R, Python, SAS, Snowflake, GitHub, and Azure DevOps to create predictive models and advanced analytics solutions• Provide technical leadership on projects in the form of project planning, technique guidance, creating solutions, guide analysts and direct delivery of solutions, and working closely with business partners. • Mentor analysts in the team to help them find solutions, overcome challenges and build their technical skills and knowledge.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Montoux works with life and health insurance companies to provide additional insights into their products, customers, and market dynamics. I worked closely with actuaries, software developers, and customers to help them make better informed decisions for repricing. • Utilised R and Git to create predictive models with machine learning techniques.• Focus was on understanding price sensitivity for new and existing.• Insights from these analyses were used in Montoux's optimisation and actuarial models to help inform repricing decisions.• Worked closely with external customers at varying levels of the business to understand the analytical techniques and modelling results.

Greater New York City Area

• Utilized R, SQL, and Hive over Hadoop to create predictive models with machine learning techniques.• Developed brand awareness and brand consideration models for customer acquisition. • Developed a lapse propensity model on existing customers. • Created a one to one map and propensity index for the company’s occupation groupings of existing customers compared to Acxiom occupation groupings using string metric analytics.• Collaborated across the company to understand the business needs and provide support for understanding the analytics.

Wellington, New Zealand

• Utilized R, Python, and SQL to create predictive models with machine learning techniques.• Developed the company’s first churn propensity model for retention. • Improved the company’s lead score model for acquisition. • Managed a direct report through the company’s summer internship program. • Created training exercises and lessons for SQL.• Collaborated across the company to understand the business needs and provide support for understanding the analytics. • Supported the marketing analysts with data and SQL query guidance.

Wellington, New Zealand

• Utilized SAS and SQL to extract, analyze, and present data for marketing campaigns and ad hoc reporting• Full responsibility for marketing campaigns which included: pre-brief, targeting customers, preparation of lists, and constructing the post campaign analysis• Interacted with sales teams and other internal partners to collaborate on data driven solutions and recommendations. This often required explanation of complex coding and system factors that impacted the development, execution, and analysis of campaigns • Developed and maintained profiles, analyses, and reporting on consumer behavior

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Interacted with sales teams, and other internal partners, to collaborate on data driven solutions and recommendations• Specialized in SAS, SQL, and DB2 • Ensured proper audience selection, test setup, and segmentation of marketing campaigns• Developed and maintained profiles, analyses, and ad hoc reporting on consumer behavior• Participated in the testing of new campaign tools and processes for the department and the company• Assisted in the creation and presentation of procedures for email campaigns and preapproved offers of credit

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Interacted with sales teams, and other internal partners, to collaborate on data driven solutions and recommendations• Specialized in SAS, SQL, and DB2 • Ensured proper audience selection, test setup, and segmentation of marketing campaigns• Provided quantitative and qualitative analyses of campaigns through the use of a campaign analysis template• Developed and maintained profiles, analyses, and ad hoc reporting on consumer behavior

Athens, Ohio

• Primary instructor for two quarters for an undergraduate course in Elementary Topics in Mathematics for education majors. • Created course syllabus, prepared lectures and activities, wrote and graded exams, held office hours for tutoring students, and utilized Blackboard Academic Suite for course management• Assisted instructor for two quarters in the implementation and grading of Geometer Sketchpad labs for an undergraduate course in mathematics for early childhood majors

Southern Ohio Area

• Collaborated with a high school chemistry teacher and his class at Valley Local High School, Lucasville, Ohio• Constructed and presented lesson plans centered on the water quality of the Ohio River• Illustrated mathematics applications in high school chemistry curriculum• Conducted water quality testing on the Ohio River• Presented lessons and mathematical modeling applications in the high school curriculum at two workshops

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Summer 2006: Co-Preschool instructor, responsible for 24 four-year old children• Summer 2007: Primary School-Age instructor, responsible for 32 five to eleven-year old children• Remaining seasons: Co-Pre-Kindergarten and Toddler instructor, responsible for16 two-year old children, and 12 three-year old children• Created and implemented original lesson plans

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Modified, designed, implemented and graded labs for both Physics I and II• Tutored students in the evening

Master'S Degree, Applied Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Member of the Ohio University Student Chapter of the American Meteorological Society (OUCAMS)

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics And Adolescent/Young Adult Mathematics Education (Grades 7-12)

Activities and Societies: Student Coordinator for the Kids of Character Program, August 2009-December 2009 President of the Capital.