Robert Latimer Email & Phone Number

San Pablo, California, United States

As an educator with a background in engineering and data science, I bring technical expertise and a passion for hands-on learning to my high school physics classroom. Naturally curious and artistic, I love blending my creative eye with practical problem-solving. I spend nights and weekends tinkering in my workshop, always looking for slick solutions to.

San Pablo, California, United States

Santa Monica, California

• Applied a clustering algorithm and Principal Component Analysis to identify most valuable customer segments which led to unique marketing strategies for each segment and an increase of average customer lifetime value.
• Built an internal Recommender system to predict an optimal product mix to send monthly subscribers which resulted in a reduction of product returns by 10%.
• Improved customer retention by 15% by implementing an Artificial Neural Network with Keras to predict customer churn and assign a churn-risk score to individual customers.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Civil design and project management of $6M+ portfolio for companies such as NASA, Apple, Facebook, and Tesla.
• Designed and implemented a project bidding model that used historical project prices to predict an optimal bidding price to maximize likelihood of winning future projects. Led to an increase of projects won by 10%.
• Spearheaded the company’s innovation group which tested and created new technologies. Resulted in an online self-service civil design tool, company products being featured in Autodesk’s AutoCAD environment, and early.

Munich, Germany

• Cofounded international student start-up consisting of seven team members from USA, Germany, France, Spain and China.
• Led company international marketing campaign, designed A/B and Multivariate testing, and programmed database to track individual users' language growth.
• Selected to be showcased at Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) competition for ‘Future Universities’

Modesto, California

• Rotational program consisting of Winery Operations, Sales, and Bottling Plant Operations
• Held roles of Packaging Engineer, Operations Engineer, and Business Analyst.
• Programmed a predictive database that resulted in $300,000+ yearly savings by anticipating packaging errors before they occurred.
• Conducted cost/benefits analysis of production value chain to highlight areas for improvement on bottling lines with a projected annual savings in excess of $120K.
• Designed Gage R&R and Process Capability statistical experiments to highlight and eliminate causes of product defects. Resulted in a reduction of screw-cap related defects by 21% and shortened the time required for a.

Oxnard, California

• Designed sheet metal assembly area for a new product to reduce assembly cycle time to save $30k annually.
• Programmed simulation of assembly process to model current layout and compared it to an improved layout.

San Luis Obispo, California

• Worked 20+ hours per week while maintaining vigorous academic course-load.
• Programmed sections of company webpage through HTML.
• Assisted in redesign of warehouse layout and picking procedure to reduce order fulfillment time by 15%.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), Operations Research, Sales Engineering Club, Intramural Sports.

Machine Learning Nanodegree, Machine Learning

Relevant Coursework: Regression, Decision Trees, SVM, Naive Bayes, Clustering, Feature Scaling, PCA, Markov Decision Processes, Game.

International Business

Activities and Societies: International Club, Cultural Debate, German Language TandemGermany Study Abroad - Two Semesters Master’s Level.