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Mayfield Village, Oh, Us

Mayfield Village, Oh, Us

• Develop product (rate segmentation) models that contribute to top-line growth for a multi-billion dollar book of commercial vehicle exposures.• Explore data sources for potential new rating variables and develop those variables for use in rate segmentation models.• Monitor new product enhancements utilized by competitors and identify applicability to Progressive's products.• Develop presentations to show analysis findings and participates in discussion of recommendations and next steps.• Perform ad hoc analyses to answer business questions

Wickliffe, Ohio, Us

• Support and improve operational process quality and reliability through statistical modeling, application development, training, and promotion of statistical process control principles.• Diagnose manufacturing problems via statistical studies on observational data• Proactively improve manufacturing processes via designed experiments and studies on observational data• Build applications in R and SAS to enable colleagues to learn from manufacturing process, QA, and analytical-chemistry data

Cleveland, Ohio, Us

• Independently support the modeling and analysis needs of the Orthopaedics and Rheumatology Institute• Consult with physicians and administrators to solve operational problems and advance medical research• Build predictive models using R or SAS to improve organizational operations• Perform study design and statistical analysis to reveal research insights• Summarize statistical methods and modeling results for presentations, journal manuscripts, and grant proposals• Participate in departmental activities including recruiting efforts, methods presentations, and supporting colleagues on predictive modeling and statistical programming challenges

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

Advanced analytics talent development program leadership:• Led the Modeling and Analytics Graduate Network (MAGNet), an advanced analytics internship program aimed at recruiting and developing statistics graduate students for full-time roles at State Farm. Intern development accomplished in the context of real project work on the University of Illinois Research Park campus.• Became involved in spring, 2012. By fall, 2013, was leading the program and directly supervising the interns. • Under my leadership, MAGNet grew to include 8-10 interns per semester (compared to 3-6 prior to my involvement). 85% of graduated interns became full-time State Farm employees (compared to a prior rate of 46%).• Responsibilities included: recruiting, interviewing, and hiring interns; soliciting, selecting, and planning individual intern projects; directing the interns’ work (in cooperation with full-time project partners); teaching modeling, programming, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills; overseeing day-to-day work environment; organizing end-of-semester symposia and helping the interns prepare their individual presentations.Personal project work:• Modeling projects: detecting fraudulent insurance claims; rank-ordering claims by subrogation potential; price-change optimization (considering customer retention, expected revenue, and expected losses); rank-ordering bank loans by probability of default; identifying claims with high litigation probability; evaluating satellite imagery information for use in predicting homeowners claims• Methods research: text mining and sentiment analysis; using text mining and sentiment analysis outputs for predictive modeling; identifying business opportunities for optimization/mathematical programming methods; measuring individual variables’ “contributions” to a statistical model.

• Performed project work involving statistical analysis, GIS, and survey research • Assisted clients with conceptual and computing questions for statistical and GIS analyses • Prepared and presented workshops and class demonstrations for statistical analysis software • Developed workshop on Repeated Measures ANOVA, including writing an 80-page workbook

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

• Built statistical model for auto policy retention (involved data preparation, model selection, and validation) • Interpreted model in relation to economic concept of “price elasticity of demand” • Created price-change optimization program (based on gradient ascent) to suggest price-changes to maximize customer retention subject to revenue bound and other constraints • Created auto part damage pattern model to aid in fraud detection • Presented projects at corporate headquarters and wrote white paper (project summary) at end of each semester

• Helped design experiments and collected experimental decision making data • Analyzed data in light of predictions of various behavioral models of preference and decision-making• Presented research at academic conferences in the US and Europe and published it in academic journals

• Alternatively delivered lecture/lab sessions for introductory statistics course• Prepared syllabus, lectures, and lab sessions; held bi-weekly office hours; assigned grades• Qualified for the “List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent” (i.e., student survey ratings in top 10%)• Held same position June, 2006 - August, 2006

• Alternately delivered lecture/lab sessions for introductory statistics course• Prepared syllabus, lectures, and lab sessions; held bi-weekly office hours; assigned grades• Qualified for the “List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent” (i.e., student survey ratings in top 10%)• Held same position June, 2008 - August, 2008

• Oversaw back office trading and settlement processes• Managed interface and data exchange between order management, accounting, and trade allocation systems using front-end applications and SQL• Used Excel, Access, and SQL Query Analyzer to produce internal and client reports; coded macros with Visual Basic for Applications in Excel to reformat trade data to suit client software requirements• Maintained security, broker, and client databases• Worked with vendors to find software solutions to various operational problems• Assumed the responsibilities of another employee to run the trade operations desk independently

• Managed $8,000 budget• Surveyed work area, determined what supplies and materials were needed, purchased them, and coordinated their delivery during the renovation of four Newman Foundation buildings• Held same position May, 1999 - August, 1999

Champaign, Illinois, Us

• Maintained order and community among 350 building residents• Gave tours to interested students and parents and explained how the dorm could serve their needs• Organized building activities and helped plan building policies• Counseled residents in need and responded to emergency and long term challenges

Champaign, Illinois, Us

• Attended to concerns brought before me and directed problems and individuals to appropriate Newman staff• Answered questions on the phone and in person• Sorted mail

• Assisted in creation and development of committee• Led five-member group in surveying and interviewing Newman’s 350 residents on topics from cafeteria menu preferences to Newman staff performance• Compiled results, developed suggestions, and submitted them in committee’s first annual report to Newman administration which became basis for administrative decisions and policy

• Performed experiment measuring light intensity transmission through a semi-reflective surface as a function of angle of incidence. Derived a mathematical model of the system consistent with experimental results• Completed additional project involving conversion of mechanical energy inside an air bubble to light

• Analyzed several applications sold by ETC, identifying parts that were either substantially similar or unique to each• Wrote a Visual Basic program to build new products that constructed code common to the old applications while allowing a user to make choices for the unique aspects of each new application• By using this program, ETC was able to produce similar products for new clients much more cheaply and efficiently than by starting anew each time• Taught novice programmer elementary programming techniques and concepts

Ms, Statistics

Ma, Quantitative Psychology

Ba, Economics

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