Tilmann Bruckhaus

Current

• Sr. Manager, Business Analytics at PayPal

Past

• Director of Analytics at Numetrics Management Systems
• Chief Architect, Data Mining and Analytics at Sun Microsystems
• Sr. Engineering Manager, Engineering Applications at Sun Microsystems

• Staff Engineer, Solaris Kernel Engineering at Sun Microsystems
• Program Manager at SunSoft

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Education

• McGill University
• Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Tilmann Bruckhaus’s Summary

Leadership and hands-on delivery of products and solutions for actionable business insights, reporting, scorecards, analytics and data mining

Tilmann Bruckhaus’s Specialties:

• Executive insights, recommendations and metrics
• Schedule risk, productivity, diagnostics, failure risk, system reliability
• Behavioral targeting, click-stream analysis, warranty management
• Service escalations, billing fraud, insurance fraud
• Regressions, decision trees, anomaly detection, neural networks
• Segmentation, text mining, market basket analysis, business rules
• Genetic algorithms, associations
• Outstanding communication skills and academic achievements

Tilmann Bruckhaus’s Experience

• Sr. Manager, Business Analytics

  PayPal

  (Public Company; ebay; Internet industry)

  April 2009 — Present (8 months)

  • Deliver data-driven, actionable insights to executive team
  • Maximize growth and value with rigorous, intelligent analytics
  • Drive high-impact recommendations in Strategy & Ventures
  • Build and lead team of motivated, top-caliber analysts
  • Guide team on advanced analytical and statistical tools
  • Deep dive as needed on very large, complex datasets
  • Ensure rigorous quality control over data and analyses

• Director of Analytics

  Numetrics Management Systems

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  February 2006 — April 2009 (3 years 3 months)

  • Expand product portfolio into new markets and grow revenue
  • Lead cross-functional teams in US, Pakistan, Armenia, India
  • Product management, planning and deployment for SaaS product
  • Hands-on development of data collection, analytic platform, and mining

• Chief Architect, Data Mining and Analytics

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2002 — 2005 (3 years )

  • Create analytic platform and predictive solutions for $250M business line
  • Create multi-terabyte enterprise data mart, predictive models
  • Collaborate with Sun Labs, University of Western Ontario, Stanford
  • Lead cross-functional teams, hire and manage external vendors
  • Manage production applications, technical staff, vendors in US, Israel

• Sr. Engineering Manager, Engineering Applications

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1999 — 2001 (2 years )

  • Achieve efficiency gains of $50M through improved workflows, productivity
  • Migrate homegrown global CRM solution with 10K users to Siebel
  • Manage 25 direct reports, 15 cross-functional resources, external vendors
  • Integrate collaborative defect management with open source community
  • Organize and manage user groups, executive oversight team

• Staff Engineer, Solaris Kernel Engineering

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1998 — 1999 (1 year )

  • Develop Solaris kernel Device Driver Interface (DDI)
  • Enhance Solaris kernel availability management architecture
  • Resolve $13M OEM contractual requirements with Siemens AG

• Program Manager

  SunSoft

  (Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year )

  • Manage product and service scorecard, driving executive compensation
  • Manage "Customer Quality Index" initiative and rollout
  • Architect cross-divisional information systems integration

Tilmann Bruckhaus’s Education

• McGill University

  Ph.D. , Computer Science

  Summa Cum Laude
  Dean's Honors List
  IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Fellowship

  Activities and Societies:

  Collaborative Research with IBM Toronto Lab

• Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

  M.Sc. , Computer Science, Business Management

  Software Engineering Technology
  Integrated Development Environments
  Software Engineering Languages
  Business Management

  Activities and Societies:

  Software Architecture and Implementation Consulting Services

Additional Information

Tilmann Bruckhaus’s Interests:

Products and solutions in analytics, analytic platforms, data management, data mining, text mining, collective intelligence

Tilmann Bruckhaus’s Groups:

Analytics, Data Mining, Text Mining

•    Sun Alumni
•    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
•    Data & Text Analytics Professionals (1800+ members)
•    PayPal
•    DataShaping Advanced Analytics
•    RWTH Aachen University Alumni
•    SPSS Power Users
•    McGill University Alumni
•    Payment Systems Network
•    Financial Risk Management Network
•    eBay Employees and Alumni Group
•    Business Analytics
•    Web & Marketing Analytics Group - IQ Workforce
•    Machine Learning Connection
•    Consumer Credit Analytics
•    eBay Inc. - eBay, PayPal, Skype
•    The R Project for Statistical Computing
•    Consumer Insights Interest Group
•    Customer Analytics Group
•    McGill Alumni - U.S.
•    SAS Spearhead Professionals
•    Global Analytics Network (+5K analytic professionals)
•    Stat-Math Statistics
•    ACM SIGKDD
•    Predictive Analytics World
•    Automotive Electronics and Embedded Software
•    Web 3.0 Conference
•    Clementine Worldwide
•    Quant Masters - Quantitative Professionals Worldwide
•    CRISP-DM
•    Forrester's Customer Experience Forum 2009

Tilmann Bruckhaus’s Honors:

• 6 US patents
• Sun Microsystems Software Innovation Award
• IBM Advanced Research Fellowship
• SPSS Market Advisory Council
• Ph.D. Summa Cum Laude, CS
• Chaired industry/academia research council
• Published book chapter: "Collaborative Intelligence in Marketing”
• Published book chapter: “Business Impact of Analytics”
• IEEE Software Magazine lead article
• Published technical book reviews
• 20+ Peer-reviewed international publications

Tilmann Bruckhaus’s Contact Settings

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