Marketing Insights Analyst @ From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Data Scientist @ • Provide analytics support to multiple mobile and browser games
• Generate and deliver data insights using tools such as Python, R, Tableau
• Develop systems to automate analytics needs and improve game balance From September 2014 to July 2015 (11 months) Data Analyst @ • Primary analyst for TOME, led analytics from closed beta to global launch
• Provide actionable insight to the game team using data accessed via Hive and MySQL
• Oversee the design, execution, and analysis of A/B tests
• Build and maintain Tableau dashboards for executive level reporting
• Responsible for coordinating with the analytics engineering team to specify and implement new logging From November 2013 to September 2014 (11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaPhD Student @ • Led research teams through all phases of the research process, including designing of laboratory and internet-based experiments, data collection, data reduction, data analysis, and communication of research findings in presentations and publications
• Developed methods to increase lab productivity through online experiments and internet-based data collection (Via Qualtrics and Amazon Mechanical Turk)
• Wrote and published 2 peer-reviewed articles, in addition to doctoral thesis From August 2007 to September 2013 (6 years 2 months)
PhD, Psychology @ Stanford University From 2007 to 2013 B.A., Cognitive Science, Psychology @ Case Western Reserve University From 2003 to 2007 Scott Jacobs is skilled in: Data Analysis, Statistics, MySQL, Python, R, SQL, Tableau, Analytics, Microsoft Excel, C++, Qualtrics, Hive, Hadoop, Research, Data Mining