Dean Cerrato

Current

• Senior Researcher at Click Harmonics, Inc.

Past

• Science Engineer at matchmine
• Database Marketing Manager at Red Galoshes, Inc.
• Senior Analytics Consultant at Demantra, Inc.

• Senior Analyst at VistaPrint
• Research Scientist at Predictive Networks
• Senior Software Engineer at Kenan Systems
• Senior Technical Staff at C. S. Draper Laboratory, Inc.
• Senior Technical Staff at Draper Laboratory

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Education

• Boston Architectural College
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Sylvan Hills High School

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Dean Cerrato’s Summary

Expertise and interest in creating knowledge out of data. Experience at several companies designing systems for predictive modeling, data-mining, tracking, analysis, and reporting. Most at home in smaller, growing companies. Love applying home-grown solutions to non-standard problems. Understand the business requirements as well as the technology.

Dean Cerrato’s Specialties:

Conceptual/mathematical as well as down-and-dirty development in MATLAB, SQL, other environments. Able to communicate with research, development, marketing, end users, clients.

Dean Cerrato’s Experience

• Senior Researcher

  Click Harmonics, Inc.

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

• Science Engineer

  matchmine

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2008 — October 2008 (10 months)

  Design of recommendation systems for online media (music, movies, video, blogs, podcasts, etc.). Development of algorithms and code for user profiling, content scoring, ratings prediction, content selection/matching.

• Database Marketing Manager

  Red Galoshes, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — December 2007 (1 year )

  Designed database systems for tracking, analysis, and reporting of e-commerce traffic for over two-dozen merchants.

• Senior Analytics Consultant

  Demantra, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 2 months)

  Custom design/configuration of demand forecasting models for multiple commercial clients. Algorithm refinement/development.

• Senior Analyst

  VistaPrint

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; VPRT; Internet industry)

  September 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 7 months)

  Analysis of e-commerce traffic flow, A/B split testing, shopper return rate vs. shipping late delivery; design/development of recommendation logic and model for intelligent cross-sell system.

• Research Scientist

  Predictive Networks

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2000 — June 2002 (2 years 1 month)

  Conceived, designed, and prototyped profiling and recommendation systems for application to Internet and cable television browsing/viewing.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Kenan Systems

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1998 — May 2000 (1 year 9 months)

  Developed server-side analytical/statistical software in C and OLAP environments.

• Senior Technical Staff

  C. S. Draper Laboratory, Inc.

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1988 — 1998 (10 years )

• Senior Technical Staff

  Draper Laboratory

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

  June 1988 — September 1998 (10 years 4 months)

  Application of learning algorithms to aerospace engineering problems; electrical design; software design

Dean Cerrato’s Education

• Boston Architectural College

  Architecture 2006 — 2006

  Sabbatical year

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  MS, BS , Electrical Engineering & Computer Science , 1991 — 1994

  Thesis: "Modeling Unknown Dynamical Systems Using Adaptive Structure Networks"
  Draper Laboratory Fellow

  Activities and Societies:

  Chorallaries of MIT, MIT Skydiving Club

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  BS , Electrical Engineering , 1983 — 1988

  Thesis: "A Dedicated Bit-mapped Graphics Display for a Microcontroller"
  Additional studies in Biology: Genetics, Biochemistry, Microbiology Lab (also TA), undergraduate research in in vitro gene expression

  Activities and Societies:

  Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Zeta Psi (Rho Alpha chapter), Logarhythms, Chamber Chorus

• Sylvan Hills High School

Additional Information

Dean Cerrato’s Groups:

•    Business Analytics
•    MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni
•    matchmine alumni

Dean Cerrato’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
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