Ryan M. Acton, Phd Email & Phone Number

* Built an automated quality measurement reporting platform in RMarkdown to provide easy-to-navigate and client-friendly analytic reports* Worked with our Product Development team to assess alternative accreditation scoring scenarios for a proposed revamp of our accreditation products* Worked with our Performance Measurement team to ingest, clean, analyze, and report out quality measurement field test data from health plans* Worked in collaboration with our research team at Johns Hopkins University to analyze survey, interview, and social network data using Configurational Comparative Methods (CCMs)* Mentored fellow members of the Data Science team and demonstrated the benefits of modern analysis and productivity tools, including RStudio, RMarkdown, git, and Microsoft Azure Devops in everyday workflows

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Chevy Chase, Md

* Analyzed and interpreted A/B tests of the company's web platform.* Built and analyzed multivariate regression models to addresses questions from internal clients. * Developed segmentation and classification models from behavioral, demographic, and survey data for a market segmentation of sales regions.* Created a recommendation system from a network graph model of vendor review data, used to suggest wedding vendors to consumers in the wedding planning phase.* Annually designed, sampled for, deployed, and analyzed results from a survey of consumers in 13 countries to estimate WeddingWire's total addressable market (TAM).* Managed the Data Science team's ad-hoc data request system, prioritizing incoming data requests and delegating the work across the team.* Collaborated frequently with the Marketing, Product, Sales, and Executive teams to brainstorm and answer research questions.* Partnered closely and frequently with the Data Engineering team to query from and write to the company's global databases.

Chevy Chase, Md

* Core faculty member of the UMass Computational Social Science Initiative (CSSI), an interdisciplinary research group for scholarly work involving large-scale data analysis utilizing methods from social network analysis and computer science, with applications in the social sciences.* Presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA), the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), and the Joint Japan/North America Mathematical Sociology Conference.* Supervised graduate and undergraduate student theses and research projects.* Taught graduate- and undergraduate-level courses; taught several workshops on methods for social network data collection and analysis to audiences of academics and practitioners.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Sociology

Master Of Arts (Ma), Demographic And Social Analysis

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Dual Majors: Sociology And Psychology