RESUME
Professional
info
Quantitative social scientist, and cross-functional team lead, with an Account Executive's eye for customer needs.
Work
experience
Marriott International Inc.
Director of Marketplace Analytics, 2019–to date
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Evangelized machine learning, goal setting (OKRs), and customer discovery frameworks to internal startups, resulting in the adoption of a more analytical process, greater resource commitments, and more targeted marketing campaigns.
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Created customer acquisition reference model and planning process for new initiatives, resulting in significantly more credible launch plans from the Loyalty Marketing and Finance departments.
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Led omni-channel instrumentation, measurements, and reporting for Eat Around Town initiative, resulting in more accurate, visible, granular, and timely omni-channel performance tracking.
Nike Inc.
Director of Product Management, Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning, 2018–2019
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Servant leader for the “Demand Sensing Transformational Initiative”, the most important initiative in Nike Inc.’s digital transformation. Rated highly successful in leadership skills in a highly matrixed organization.
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Used customer-centric selling techniques to build relationships across a large, complex, and highly matrixed Fortune 500 company. Persuaded a 1,500 strong org to begin adopting machine learning, and automation.
Cambridge Social Science Decision Lab Inc.
Technical Founder, 2013–2018
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Built “automated statistician” B2B enterprise software to measure the lift of business initiatives using offline A/B tests.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Research Fellow, Department of Global Health and Population, 2011–2012
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Led the introduction of applied game theory and causal inference to flagship doctoral seminar on health systems reform. Resulted in a Lecturer job offer (declined).
World Bank Group
Staff Economist, Development Economics Prospects Group, 1999–2006
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Implemented state-of-the-art automated data systems and time series forecasting models. Resulted in more detailed, timely, and frequent reports, with a smaller team.
Skills
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
BUSINESS STRATEGY
CUSTOMER-CENTRIC SELLING
DATA SCIENCE
RESEARCH DESIGN
CAUSAL INFERENCE
APPLIED GAME THEORY
Data Science
PYTHON 3
R
STATA
STAN
GIT
VSCODE
LATEX
SQL
JIRA
TARGETPROCESS
CONFLUENCE
Education
Ph.D. Political Methodology
New York University, 2010. Completed in 4 years.
M.A. International Economics
Johns Hopkins University, 1999. Graduated with distinction.
B.A. Politics, Philosophy and Economics
Oxford University, 1996