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*rd Dave Dinh

data hacker

Location

San Francisco Bay Area

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Overview

Current

Support Software Engineer at Lookout

Past

Marketing Intern at Lookout

Research and Technology Intern at UC Berkeley Biological Imaging Facility

Crew Chief at Berkeley Student Cooperative

Strauss Scholar at Donald A. Strauss Public Service Scholarship Foundation

Treasurer and Board Member at Uganda Village Project

Microbiology Research Lab Technician at USDA, Albany, CA

Sponsored Projects for Undergraduate Research Program (SPUR) Project Implementer at UC

Berkeley College of Natural ResourcesSummer Program Assistant at Uganda Village Project

Project Implementer at Big Ideas @ Berkeley

Personal Care Assistant at UC Berkeley

Work-Study Program

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Education

University of California, Berkeley

Connections

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Websites

github

daverroni

Public Profile

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Summary

What I do at lookout: data munging, more data munging, and create visualizations.

SKILLS

Languages: English (Fluent), Vietnamese (conversational), Kiswahili / Lusoga (basic)

Programing Languages: Ruby, SQL, HTML / CSS, Bash

Learning: Ruby on Rails, Machine Learning, Javascript

Interests: Swimming, Hiking, Weekday Vegetarian, Kaggle contestsExperience

Support Software Engineer

Lookout

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry

April 2012 Present (4 months) San Francisco Bay Area

Project lead for support data visualization & automation projects.

Marketing Intern

Lookout

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry

September 2011 March 2012 (7 months) San Francisco Bay Area

Worked on a rails web app that leverages ad network APIs to automate creative A/B

testing. This involves syncing ad network metrics with internal user activation data to

accurately track ad performance.

Used SQL to query monthly and daily paid user acquisition data and automate email

delivery of results using Ruby and cron jobs.

Investigated conversion tracking discrepancies between ad networks and internal user

data using SQL and an understanding of how data traveled from the point where a user

clicks on an ad to how it is parsed and stored in databases.

Owned creative optimization and daily management of paid advertising channels.

Discovered that making small changes to banner ads can result in conversion volume

increases of over 24%.

Grew Lookout s affiliate program by contacting over 300 app developers and asking them

to promote Lookout, resulting in 15 new affiliates and an additional 475 new users daily.

Research and Technology InternUC Berkeley Biological Imaging FacilityJanuary 2011August 2011 (8 months)

Gained experience in designing experiments, cleaning large datasets, data analysis and

visualization using R and Excel.

Investigated changes in bacterial development over time by analyzing visual trends and

experimental data.

Crew Chief

Berkeley Student Cooperative

Nonprofit; 51-200 employees; Nonprofit Organization Management industry

January 2011May 2011 (5 months)

Trained and lead 10 student employees in packing food for over 1250 members in the

Berkeley Student Cooperative. Managed the ordering, preparation, and warehouse inventory

of

produce.

Strauss Scholar

Donald A. Strauss Public Service Scholarship FoundationMay 2009January 2010 (9 months)

Awarded $10,000 through the Strauss Foundation to start a business that provided safe

drinking water storage in rural Uganda.

Launched pilot tests to measure product efficacy and leveraged customer feedback to

guide product design and marketing.

Locally manufactured over 1,000 modified clay pots, which provided more than10 rural

communities access to safe household drinking water storage.

Treasurer and Board Member

Uganda Village Project

Nonprofit; 1-10 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry

July 2006 January 2009 (2 years 7 months)

Created finance reports and forecasts for Uganda Village Project, a nonprofit providing

international public health internships to over 100 students and professionals.

Microbiology Research Lab TechnicianUSDA, Albany, CA

March 2008November 2008 (9 months)

Sponsored Projects for Undergraduate Research Program (SPUR) Project Implementer

UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources

Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry

June 2008August 2008 (3 months)

Awarded a $2000 SPUR grant to spearhead exploratory research on the short-term field

reliability, user acceptance, and cost analysis of modified clay pots as a low-cost and

decentralized intervention to reduce drinking water contamination in rural Ugandan

households.

Summer Program Assistant

Uganda Village Project

Nonprofit; 1-10 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry

May 2007August 2007 (4 months)

Promoted community health and development solutions based on grassroots needs in

Iganga, Uganda.

Project Implementer

Big Ideas @ BerkeleyMay 2007August 2007 (4 months)

Awarded $2000 from Big Ideas @ UC Berkeley (bigideas.berkeley.edu) to improve the

livelihoods of a vulnerable widow and orphan populations in rural Uganda.

Established and monitored an economic empowerment project involving the rearing of milk

goats and milk production for nutrition and sale.

Personal Care AssistantUC Berkeley Work-Study Program

March 2006May 2007 (1 year 3 months)

. Unique opportunity to assist a physically disabled adult through UC Berkeley's work-

study program.

Skills & Expertise

English

Vietnamese

Swahili

R

SQL

HTML + CSS

XML

Bash

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Science, Microbiology

20052010Medtronic Foundation Scholarship, 2005-2009

Donald A. Strauss Public Service Scholarship, 2009-2010

UC Berkeley ASUC Academic Opportunity Fund, 2008 and 2009

Sponsored Projects for Undergraduate Research Program Grant, 2008

UC Berkeley Big Ideas Prize, 2007

Additional Information

Websites:

github

daverroni

Interests:

Web Technology, Software, Marketing, Sales, Entrepreneurship

Groups and Associations:

Uganda Village Project( www.ugandavillageproject.org )

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Birthday:

July 25

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