Ryan Tom Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California

• Published business intelligence reports monitoring various KPI’s that gave insight into customer acquisition, reactivation, and retention
• Maintained multiple data pipelines starting from complex SQL queries, to data manipulation in databricks using pyspark, to final data source integration into Tableau/PowerBI
• Designed and developed a suite of demographic dashboards in Tableau to provide stakeholders a view of the WSI buyer profile
• Programmed in SQL, SAS, python, and pyspark for data manipulation, mining, and analyses
• Worked in conjunction with the technology team to help implement Tableau as the primary BI tool for the marketing department
• Collected and engineered features for Customer Lifetime Value model, assessed CLV model with linear regression, and identified various customer segments through K-means.

• NBA Classification – Webscraped Basketball References for player statistics and applied unsupervised learning methods to reclassify player positions, and performed a linear regression to readjust salary distribution.
• Digit Recognizer – Used neural networks to train data from the MNIST digit data set to predict with roughly 98% accuracy 10,000 digit images.
• Iowa Housing Regression Model – An in-class Kaggle competition where I created a linear regression model with feature selection and engineering to predict the housing costs of homes in Ames, IA. Finished in top 25%.
• Reddit API and Text Classification – Accessed Reddit’s API to obtain thousands of posts and thread features. Analyzed reddit thread titles, and used natural language processing to identify what makes a reddit thread.

Redwood City

• Spearheaded experimental design for optimization and development of immunohistochemistry experiments
• Communicated and interacted with antibody vendors for creation
• Maintained and grew multiple cancer cell lines for future immunohistochemistry experiments

Menlo Park

• Performed rodent brain surgeries on over 100+ animals through stereotaxic methodologies
• Analyzed and cleaned large animal behavior data using Graphpad (PRISM) & Excel (t-tests, 1 & 2-way ANOVA)
• Taught coworkers Excel pivot tables, VLookups, and other Excel functions to expedite data cleaning and data analysis
• Conducted state of the art optogenetic animal behavior experiments and acquired data through motion capture software
• Processed and analyzed frozen and fixed tissue using immunofluorescent techniques

San Mateo

Menlo Park

• Contribution to the development of novel therapeutics, using gene therapy and optogenetic techniques
• Handling of small and large rodents, including injections and behavior monitoring
• Surgical assistance, such as surgery, dosing, perfusion, and tissue dissection
• Processing and histology of frozen and fixed tissue using immunofluorescence
• Analysis of tissue using confocal and epifluorescent microscopy
• Writing protocols for surgical and histological techniques