Will Richmond Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Team Leadership: Successfully hired two analysts and served as the lead for the data analytics team.Technical Environment Development: Implemented a collaborative Docker environment for working with Jupyter notebooks. Developed a shared utility function library and integrated key components, including Google and S3 connections, internal APIs, and geospatial functions.BaseScore Development: Created BaseScore, a comparative crime risk metric for the U.S., utilizing H3 hexagons across 22-25k locations. Developed baseline and location datasets, defined eligible areas, and crafted the methodology. This solution is deployed in a Dockerized service with monthly updates.Pipeline Improvements: Enhanced map ingestion and API pipelines for greater efficiency and performance.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Made a trendline for monthly threat count. It accounts for outliers, missing periods, data recency, and segmentation. This predicts forward if there isn’t sufficient data. Applied this to a pipeline for evaluating change performance for saved locations.Created a pipeline that identifies notable unrest events on a monthly cadence applied to worldwide locations. Collaborated with data science on the selection criteria and productionized it.Incorporated GADM geospatial data into a main data pipeline.Wrote a pipeline to clean GEOJSON maps for map application use, checking for intersections, gaps and additional validate.Wrote internal data api functions to expedite analytical problem-solving and ensure data consistency.Wrote functions for nearby locations.

Portland, Or, Us

Added actionable Sales Executive Requests to our rent potential & average rate models: low confidence flags, rent projection bands, comparable properties (similarity & distance), and projected low and high daily rates. Also envisioned and implemented static prediction model tracking.Guest lectured for Boise State University's Algorithms of Machine Learning (CS- 334) on K-MeansAssisted in auditing Key Data.Applied H3 library to internal Vacasa use.Created internal API functions for Geocodio and Smarty.Created a new test group creation methodology for company rates model testing (two iterations).Created owner linkage using a combination of data cleaning and simple modeling.Maintained our personalized email campaigns.Created process for aggregating journaling entries for improved analytics.Reviewed Vacation rental density

Portland, Or, Us

Built a unit churn model for a goal of 1% annual portfolio churn reduction. Corresponded with machine learning engineers to turn it into production. Optimized nightly rates and OTA channel revenue through experimentationEngineered an experiment performance reporting dashboard in Dash that has been used for over 20 experiments.Innovated home and location-based test group selection for more applicable and valid results.Devised a new metric to compare vacation rental usage across the United States. Produced the dataset for the growth team comparable properties tool.Standardized one of our availability datasets using PySpark.Authored an EDA on vacation rental image artificial intelligence software which led us to pursue signing with the vendor.Coordinated with our Product team on evaluating the relevance of updating an operations model and applying NLP to guest messaging.

Portland, Or, Us

Optimized OTA channel revenue & merchandising analytics through experimentation- Assessed the long term value of several pricing revenue alternatives, including OTA differentiation.- Optimized Covid Policy messaging on Colorado Airbnb listings for a 9% reservation increase- Evaluated channel pricing and cancellation policy experiments that changed our cancellation policy on multiple OTAs. Created slide decks for executives.Increased the Vacasa brand and direct bookings- Crafted individualized email personalizations that have generated $3.6mill in post-open revenueImproved operational efficiency- Researched and presented on our portfolio analyst and rates model interaction to optimize company revenue and team effeciency- Created a Vrbo subscription type algorithm for an annual savings of $4millImproved the data accessibility for the guest marketing team (channels, photography, reservation sales):- Created Looker BI dashboards for increased managerial oversight into team performance.- Built the reservation sales phone call and email revenue attribution reporting- Wrote a beginner SQL (Redshift) curriculum and taught materials to 40 people, including those in director-level roles- Attended Looker Join 2019 to expand my data visualization skills

Portland, Or, Us

Collaborated with team managers to implement new data tracking procedures within our maintenance ticket system. Built Looker Dashboards & automated reporting to improve our 3rd party channel distribution time and time for photography.Wrote & taught several month-long SQL curricula (Redshift) for 30 people, including for director-level positions.

Portland, Or, Us

Coordinated 3rd party marketing channels for 50 acquired property management companies, which have generated 70-million in 3rd party channel revenue to date.Wrote SQL scripts to automate the content auditing process for new homes.

Portland, Or, Us

Kent, Wa, Us

Inspired learning from preschool through Advanced Placement students, with an extended position at elementary ELL.Followed procedures, improvised ideas & recorded performance in a daily changing classroom environment. Maintained class safety, and taught social norms using a variety of teaching methods & technology types.

Us

Accepted into Americorps program (25% acceptance rate) to dedicate one intensive year of service towards improving school wide attendance, math & literacy performance and decreasing behavioral issues at Valverde Elementary School.Accelerated student math and literacy proficiency for a student focus list:- Led five small groups, supplementary one-on-one interventions, and provided whole class support.- Formulated intervention curriculum based on quantitative student progress data, including MI testing and iStation. - My five end of year math focus list students demonstrated at least one year of growth.Elected to serve as Mathematics Coordinator:- Increased math homework completion for 42 students with Pi Day event. - Coordinated donations, activities and staff.

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Enhanced the Colorado College website through Google Analytics projects and trainings:- Implemented 30 inner-site search drop down option updates to improve site accessibility based on user traffic history. - In collaboration with the Summer Music Festival department, identified their traffic sources for outreach effectiveness.- Created documentation on aggregate user segmentation and relevant news article metrics.Provided additional social media research, system configuration, front-end web development and UI-UX testing.

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Generated Excel Pivot Tables to evaluate data trends for 1887 textile employment records.Organized and transcribed thousands of employment records in Excel for Professor Esther Redmond's labor research.

Integrated online and in-store marketing:- Engaged online users with a summer pet photo contest generating over 250 online and in-store entries.- Initiated a high school writing scholarship contest with entries from two local school districts. Expanded the online Reber Ranch brand:- Grew the Facebook page 33% to over 4,000 fans through post content analysis.- Increased mobile and desktop web traffic through updated content and Google Analytics results.

As a marketing intern both both ski brands, I managed social media, created and procured online content, assisted with newsletters, blog posts and other promotional pieces to retain skiing interest during the off season. My first wordpress web platform experience, I assisted with updating their website for the following year’s products. I repaired skis and boots, organized the marketing product area, and shipped product to athletes and organizations.

My first entrepreneurial foray, I founded Will’s Waxing Empire, a skier and snowboarder seasonal on-campus waxing enterprise. Even with the lackluster Colorado winters, the second season saw many repeat customers.

I worked several years as a lifeguard and swim lesson instructor, learning about lesson instruction, public safety and customer service.

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematical Economics

Education record