Client Service Analyst at comScore
Greater Seattle Area
Client Service Analyst at comScore
Greater Seattle Area
Currently a Client Service Analyst in the Media vertical at comScore. Graduated from Pennsylvania State University and majored in Information Sciences and Technology with a minor in Japanese. Co-founder of the Pennsylvania State University Japanese Culture Society.
Current skill set includes the following areas:
-Web Development: Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, XML
-Basic Programming: Java, C++, Visual Basic, T-SQL/MySQL
-Team Dynamics: Project management, Distributed teams, Effective communication, Leadership
-Languages: Japanese, German
Emphasis on search-related research as well as leadership, team dynamics, and emerging technologies.
(Public Company; Internet industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
September 2005 — May 2008 (2 years 9 months)
Worked under Dr. Jim Jansen on the following projects:
-Publications: Co-authored five published academic papers; currently writing a book chapter on Web analytics.
-Searching as Learning: Designed, conducted, and preformed analysis on a 72-person user study to define searching behavior using the updated levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
-Search Engine User Intent: Used previous research and transaction log analysis to define levels of user intent and created a program to automatically classify query intent.
-Query Modifications: Analyzed large search engine transaction log data and used the findings to create a program to automatically define query modifications.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; INSP; Internet industry)
May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)
Independently researched, designed, implemented, and preformed statistical analysis on Web data to compare how the top four search engines perform in multiple query categories.
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2006 — December 2006 (5 months)
Lead a student group and acted as a liaison between the students and the professor to provide suggestions for overall course improvement.
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
May 2006 — December 2006 (8 months)
Worked under Dr. Brian Smith to create a Web-based social network analysis application that allows multiple users to access, tag, compare, and discuss data.
B.S. , Information Sciences and Technology , 2004 — 2008
Minor in Japanese
College of IST Undergraduate Student Research Award, 2007-2008
Victoria L. Meyer Trustee Scholarship in the College of IST, 2007-2008