Zack Protogeros, PhD

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QUANTITATIVE DATA SCIENTIST

Delivering quantitative business solutions using statistical data analysis and modeling, mathematical methods and code development (extended resume available at: http://www.DestinationGreece.com/ZP-6P-CVm.pdf)

Corporate experienced astrophysicist delivering innovative business solutions through data statistical analysis, machine learning algorithms, numerical simulations and effective project management. Track record of delivering:

Extensive code experience (i.e. using text mining R scripting to gauge tweets as a predictor for 2012 Greece elections, A/B significance testing in email campaigns, STATISTICA to deliver peer reviewed, repeated measures and MANOVA treatments for LANCET medical studies, VB and JavaScript to deliver XML white label production systems, C and FORTRAN for numerical simulations and calculation of genus statistics)

Increased value of successful led European Commission, web services (SOA) related, implemented projects from 0.5 to 5 MEuros in 3 years (2003-2006)

Generated scientific proposals and received funding for research projects heavily based on statistical analysis

EDUCATION

The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

PhD in Physics (Astrophysics and Cosmology), 1997

California State University Fresno, Fresno, California

MSc with Distinction in Physics, 1990

National University of Athens, Athens, Greece

BSc in Physics, 1987

EXPERIENCE

e-Transactions, LLC – Athens, Greece

Technology Director, January 2008 - today

Profiling clients using classification/clustering algorithms (Naive Bayes, k-Means, k-NN, random forests, etc)

Defining, collecting, reducing, statistically analyzing and modeling web data pertaining to the effectiveness of various marketing channels adopted by client companies (A/B testing regarding content, code, layout etc)

Applying correlation and regression analysis, non-linear models, non-parametric and classification models on web data related to client email campaigns (involved in coding and/or scripting as per the tools used)

European Commission funded project – Athens, Greece

Director of the Innovation and Technology Transfer Center (ITTC) of Peloponnese, January –December 2007

Cooperating with University of Peloponnese faculty (Departments of Statistics, Mathematics, Information Technology) to coordinate novel projects with ITTC, where university students can join and contribute

Responsible for carrying out ITTC mission, i.e. increasing competitiveness of Greek enterprises of the Peloponnese region by introducing innovative technologies and processes

Business applications generated for investors, entrepreneurs and public sector organizations

European Dynamics, SA – Athens, Greece

Web Services Division Manager, July 2003 - September 2006

Managing implementation of European Commission (EC) web services (SOA) based projects, each averaging 0.5-5.0 Million Euros (i.e. Statel - EUROSTAT, EURES - DG Employment; project list available upon request)

Long term planning, staffing, project managing, hardware/software/network infrastructure management, financial projections, tenders and proposals overview

Managing approximately 40 experienced IT professionals (Athens, Brussels, Noida, Bangalore)

Established a number of methodologies and tools to assist HR and to facilitate easier remote collaboration

Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Human Computer Interaction Lab – Heraklion-Crete, Greece

Researcher, December 2000 - June 2003

Drafted, submitted and received approval from General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Hellas for my research proposal on establishing a real time Brain Computer Interface based on wave signature detection through statistical analysis of higher order moments (ΑΡΙΣΤΕΙΑ ΚΠΣ00006-1, 03/2002)

Drafted, submitted, received approval and served as Principal Investigator for Greece-Spain, European Commission Joint Research and Technology proposal "Study of the bias mechanism in large-scale structure through the correlation of the cosmological local density and velocity fields” (01/2002)

Participated in a number of EC research projects (i.e. VIEW, SEN-IST; project list available upon request)

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young - Columbus, Ohio

Senior consultant, September 1997 - August 2000

e-Commerce design programming and implementation of encryption/decryption algorithms for NACOM/Tandy and Nationwide/Discover Card

Coordinator for UUNet’s Y2K project involving testing and implementation of production SQL server routines for real-time billing

The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Graduate Research Associate, 1994-1997

Expertise in frequentist and Bayesian methodologies, maximum likelihood techniques, correlation / regression / factor / cluster analysis, higher order statistics and stochastic processes

Excellent background in stochastic processes and perturbative treatment of Gaussian / non-Gaussian PDFs.

Mathematical modeling and analysis through numerical simulations (FORTRAN / C)

Investigating the accuracy and effectiveness of improvised approximation schemes using numerical methods (Monte Carlo simulations; fast Fourier transform techniques; filtering and smoothing; bootstrapping optimization techniques; graphical representation of data)

AWARDS / DISTINCTIONS / ACHIEVEMENTS

06/2006: Appointed scientific reviewer by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Hellas (GSRT-ΓΓΕΤ program ENTER, Athens, Greece)

06/2003: Reviewer for the Human Computer Interaction 2003 International Conference (Heraklion-Crete)

11/2002: Appointed scientific reviewer for Addison-Wesley

04/2000: Founding member and shareholder to this day of Destination Greece, an innovative, IATAN, GNTO and OSSN endorsed tour operator Agency, located in Columbus, OH, USA

09/1999: Was offered the Training for Mobility of Researchers (TMR) Marie Curie fellowship by Dr. Enrique Louis, University of Alicante, Spain

1992, 1991: OSU Physics Departmental Summer Academic Fellowship

1990-1997: OSU Research and Teaching Assistantships

1989: California State University Fresno Alumni Association Academic Scholarship for outstanding scholarly accomplishment; GPA 4.0, Dean’s List, CSUF

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The Topology of Large Scale Structure in the 1.2Jy IRAS Redshift Survey (Protogeros, Z.A.M. & Weinberg, D.H. 1997, ApJ, 489, 457) http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/489/2/457

Local Lagrangian Approximations for the Evolution of the Density Distribution Function in Large-Scale Structure (Protogeros, Z.A.M. & Scherrer, R.J. 1997, MNRAS, 284, 425) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997MNRAS.284..425P

Skewness of the Large-Scale Velocity Divergence from Non-Gaussian Initial Conditions (Protogeros, Z.A.M. & Scherrer, R.J. 1997, MNRAS, 286, 223)http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997MNRAS.286..223P.

Testing Tree-Level Perturbation Theory for Large Scale Structure with the Local Lagrangian Approximation (Protogeros, Z.A.M., Melott, A.L., Scherrer, R. J. 1997, MNRAS, 290, 2, 367) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997MNRAS.290..367P

Evolution of the Large Scale Cosmic Fields (Protogeros, Zacharias A. M., 1997, The Ohio State University. UMI Number: 9801763)

TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE

Text mining and machine learning techniques, R scripting, Statistica, Mathematica, SQL, Python, SEO, FORTRAN, C, Excel, VBA, VBScript, JavaScript, ASP, HTML, CSS, XML, Windows, Unix/Linux, Mac

AFFILIATIONS

Member of Sigma Xi (Ohio State Chapter)

Member of the American Physical Society

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