Will Larson

Current

• Business Analyst at Ticketmaster

Past

• Analyst, Global Product Management at Warner Home Video
• Online Marketing Intern at Ascendim
• Support Specialist Intern at KTLA

• Technical Consultant at Broadband Products

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Education

• University of California, Santa Barbara
• South Pasadena High School
• University of California, London

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Connections

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Industry

Entertainment

Will Larson’s Summary

Analyst drawing insightful and actionable conclusions from applying advanced statistical principles to large quantities of data.

Will Larson’s Experience

• Business Analyst

  Ticketmaster

  (Public Company; TKTM; Entertainment industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  +Software: Excel, Access (with VBA), SPSS, Powerpoint, Infopath (incl. data validation scripting in Javascript)
  +Seeds of Analysis: Forrester, Bizrate, ComScore, Omniture (incl. ExcelClient), WebTrends (incl. ODBC), Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, CRM, Foresee Market Research
  +Worked/working on: Extrapolation for financial forecasting, ROI, ROAS, ODBC querying and automated analysis

• Analyst, Global Product Management

  Warner Home Video

  (Public Company; TWX; Entertainment industry)

  June 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 2 months)

  + Maintained product requirements and costs under tight deadlines using our budgeting, planning, and analytical tool, PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), built on SAP Netweaver.
  + Worked closely with developers to enhance PLM.
  + Developed custom, dynamic decision-making models for what-if analysis with custom-written functions and the Essbase API to support cost-saving initiatives.
  + Communicated with Marketing, Finance, Operations, and many of our 90 international offices to gather business requirements and decisions and ensure they were properly implemented.

• Online Marketing Intern

  Ascendim

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

  September 2005 — July 2006 (11 months)

  + Internet research to find content for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
  + Undertook design tasks with the graphic design team, batch image and filename manipulation using Adobe Photoshop macros and Microsoft Batch Files.
  + Maintained product data in an Elastic Path Database using HTML and CSS.

• Support Specialist Intern

  KTLA

  (Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

  2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

  + Desktop Support: set up personal computers and solved network problems.
  + MIS-related tasks: administration of an Exchange Server, tape backups for file servers.

• Technical Consultant

  Broadband Products

  (Import and Export industry)

  2003 — 2003 (less than a year)

  + Developed a customized system of computers to troubleshoot defective products.
  + Maintained website http://broadbandproducts.com.

Will Larson’s Education

• University of California, Santa Barbara

  BS , Financial Mathematics and Statistics , 2007

  Coursework: Vector Calculus, Mathematical Finance and the Binomial / Black-Scholes Models, Corporate Finance, Numerical Analysis, Probability & Statistics, Stochastic Processes, SAS Base Programming

  Activities and Societies:

  Business Economics Association

• South Pasadena High School

  2003

  Activities and Societies:

  Water Polo, Swimming

• University of California, London

  Study Abroad

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