Jacob Z.
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Studied at University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Works at Digitas Health
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Work Experience
Vice President
Digitas Health
September 2024 - Present
Associate Director
Merck
August 2020 - August 2024
Digital Strategy Consultant
Accenture Strategy
May 2017 - August 2020
Research Statistician
Virginia Tech ARC
June 2016 - April 2017
VT-ARC is a nonprofit applied research corporation that solves problems of interest for academia, Government, and industry. I was the first statistician hired at VT-ARC, with the purpose of providing statistical rigor to analytical projects. Primarily, my project work revolves around researching futures technologies, analyzing their aspects of development, interviewing subject matter experts, aggregating data, predicting paths statistically, and writing up the reports for clients.
Senior Statistician
Merkle Inc
June 2012 - May 2016
Merkle is a Big Data marketing research agency. At Merkle, I worked on various statistical projects, including those for retail, technology, and financial clients. These projects were varied and combined database coding, statistical analyses, and writing and leading presentations. The prevalent statistical techniques ranged from linear and logistic model building to Excel spreadsheets to decision tree and random forest algorithms.
Education
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Master's degree, Statistics
2010 - 2012
Activities and societies: Save A Child's Heart; Challah For Hunger; Hillel
State University of New York at Albany
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Statistics
2006 - 2010
Activities and societies: Hillel
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