Tim Piatenko

Current

Content Writer / Consultant at Shmoop
Associate Search Analytics Manager at eBay
Political Committee Secretary for the Loma Prieta Chapter at Sierra Club

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Past

Business Intelligence Analyst at Like.com
Senior SEO researcher / Consultant at Like.com
Research Assistant at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Graduate Student at Caltech
Physics Tutor at Cornell Learning Strategies Center
Research Assistant at Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory

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Education

California Institute of Technology
Cornell University

Recommended

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Connections

300 connections

Industry

Internet

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Tim Piatenko’s Summary

Industry:

Data mining using MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and Teradata databases. Development of custom and automated reports and dashboards that track important user behavior and essential business metrics. Data visualization and analysis using Excel and R.

Academic:

Computing and statistical analysis intensive work in the field of experimental Elementary Particle Physics. Experience with very large and complicated code base that allows hundreds of scientists to collect, organize, maintain, process, and analyze terabytes of data resulting from collisions and decays of subatomic particles.

Tim Piatenko’s Specialties:

Software Development (C++/Java/Python/UNIX shell), Statistical Data Analysis (classification, maximum likelihood estimation, regression, hypothesis testing), Data Mining (MySQL, SQL Server, Teradata), Data Visualization and Numerical Analysis (in R, Matlab, Mathmatica, ROOT, and Excel)

Tim Piatenko’s Experience

Content Writer / Consultant

Shmoop

(Privately Held; E-Learning industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)
Associate Search Analytics Manager

eBay

(Public Company; eBay; Internet industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)

Responsible for reporting and data analysis tasks revolving around user experience using eBay search. Writing SQL queries that access the Teradata-based Data Warehouse and analyzing results in Excel and R.
Political Committee Secretary for the Loma Prieta Chapter

Sierra Club

(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

July 2009 — Present (5 months)

Attending monthly Political Committee meetings and taking meeting minutes.
Business Intelligence Analyst

Like.com

(Privately Held; Retail industry)

August 2008 — March 2009 (8 months)

Data mining using MySQL and SQL Server database queries, R for data visualization and analysis, and Python and UNIX shell scripting for task automation. Studied short and long-term visitor behavior patterns that directly affected business decisions. Worked with every team in the company, providing custom reports and ad hoc analyses.
Senior SEO researcher / Consultant

Like.com

(Privately Held; Retail industry)

March 2008 — August 2008 (6 months)

Mining and analyzing web analytics data to help the SEO team bring more organic traffic to the site. As the scope of data I analyzed grew beyond SEO purposes, I transitioned to the Business Intelligence team.
Research Assistant

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

(Government Agency; Research industry)

August 2002 — July 2008 (6 years )

Graduate student research assistant at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Worked on several analyses of decays of the B meson using various data mining and analysis techniques. Developed C++ code to process data and used classification techniques, such as boosting and bootstrap aggregation with Decision Trees, to separate signal from overwhelming background.

Also worked with accelerator physicists at SLAC on construction and commissioning of a new X-ray synchrotron radiation based monitor for the positron beam size in the electron-positron storage ring.
Graduate Student

Caltech

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

June 2002 — July 2008 (6 years 2 months)

Graduate student in high energy physics. Worked on developing a new type of Liquid-Xenon-based calorimeter for future generations of particle detectors. Developed a Mathematica simulation of a possible scintillator-based replacement for the muon detection system for the BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Physics Tutor

Cornell Learning Strategies Center

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

August 2000 — May 2002 (1 year 10 months)

Worked as a tutor for introductory physics sequences at Cornell aimed at pre-meds and engineers.
Research Assistant

Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory

(Research industry)

June 1999 — May 2002 (3 years )

Undergraduate student research assistant at Laboratory of Elementary Particle Physics. Worked on the development of a Java-based distributed system for parallel analysis of experimental data and produced a fully-functional real-time monitoring solution. Developed C++ and Postscript code for visualization of particle decays in the CLEO detector.

Tim Piatenko’s Education

California Institute of Technology

Ph.D. , Physics , 2002 — 2008

Activities and Societies:

Russian Club (president), Soccer Club
Cornell University

BA , Physics, Math , 1998 — 2002

Activities and Societies:

Aikido Club, Russian Club, Ukrainian Club (founding member), Japan US Association

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Tim Piatenko’s Interests:

Aikido (2nd dan), Sports: Soccer, Tennis, Snowboarding, Books: Tolkien, Asimov, Computers: Mac OS, customization and productivity software, TV: The Daily Show, The Colbert Report