Manager, Web Analytics

Anthony D. Thrall, PhD

http://www.linkedin.com/in/tthrall

*** ****** ****** #**, ******** View, CA 94041

+1-650-***-**** * *******@**************.***

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Professional Qualifications

* Building & leading analytic teams in environment, energy, internet, & other industries

* Developing new consultancy clients

* Writing & editing peer-reviewed publications & technical reports

* Analysis of & algorithmic adaptation to individual patterns of human-computer interaction

* Teaching & instructional software development for the mathematical sciences

Professional Experience:

2005 – 2010: Yahoo! Sunnyvale, CA

Manager * Search & Advertising Metrics & Analysis

* Recruited & managed 20+ statisticians, linguists, & HCI professionals

* Designed, conducted, & analyzed studies to improve user search-engine experience

* Expanded company view of user behavior over time and across the network

* Co-authored patent application for collaborative web-search

* Conducted competitive analyses to guide investments generating $3.5 B annual revenue

2000 – 2005: Pearson Digital Learning Sunnyvale, CA

Director * Research & Measurement

* Built & led team of 5 analysts and 2 engineers

* Developed & documented adaptive tutoring and assessment algorithms

* Invented & developed High Stakes Management™ reports & services helping educators manage student achievement

* Established evidence of courseware effectiveness for federal, state, and local review

* Participated in major sales presentations, which helped to generate $50 M revenue

1999 – 2000: Stanford University, Genetics Department Stanford, CA

Statistician * Genetic Epidemiology

* Studied hypertension, diabetes, autism, & other diseases

* Conducted statistical analyses & developed databases

1998 – 1999: Key Curriculum Press Emeryville, CA

Statistician * Fathom Software & Curriculum

* Developed statistical software

* Wrote curricular software modules

* Designed user interface to foster statistical inference

1997 – Present: UC Berkeley Extension Redwood City, CA

Instructor * Statistics

* Prepared post-graduate students for MBA and other professional programs

* Equipped 500+ students to apply and extend fundamental skills and concepts

1996 – 1997: Stanford University, Ctr. for the Study of Lang. & Info. (CSLI) Stanford, CA

Software Engineer* HyperProof Project

* Developed portions of HyperProof visual courseware to teach logic

* Built components of cross-platform OpenDoc version of product

1986 – 1993: Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Palo Alto, CA

Project Manager * Environment Division

* Studied the effects of electric utility operations on community health & the environment

* Managed application & development of statistical methods

* Enabled individual client companies to manage liabilities of $100+ M

1981 – 1986: Systems Applications San Rafael, CA

Manager * Environmental Statistics Group

* Built & managed statistical consulting services

* Recruited & managed staff

* Developed new business

* Wrote expository articles on the use of statistics in environmental science

* Developed methods to analyze extreme values & level-crossings of time series

1978 – 1981: UCLA School of Medicine Los Angeles, CA

Senior Statistician * Biomathematics Department

* Designed & coded time series Fourier analysis module for BMDP statistical software

* Taught graduate course in time series analysis

* Provided consulting services for neurophysiologists & other medical research teams

Education

Stanford University Stanford, CA

1994 MA * Education

UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA

1979 PhD * Statistics

UCLA Los Angeles, CA

1974 MA * Mathematics

UC Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA

1970 BA * Mathematics

Other Skills

Programming: Fortran, C++, Mathematica, R, JMP, Python

Languages: English (native), French, Russian, Ilokano

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