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Ed Gutman
Mountain View, CA 94040 USA
Work Experience
Twitter, San Francisco, CA, Team Lead, User Support, 2009-Present
- Project lead for monetization support.
Flowgram, San Francisco, CA, Customer Acquisition Analyst, 2008
- Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. Developed brand strategy and statistics systems.
- Analytics development, implementation and project management, search engine optimization, and product testing.
- Technical skills used: SQL, PHP, Perl, SPSS, Excel, analytics, data mining and statistics.
Yahoo, Santa Clara, CA, Senior Search Quality Analyst / Project Manager, 2006-2008
- Search product testing and test administration. Intermediary between US, international editorial staff and various search product engineering groups.
- Spam fighting and and search quality maintenance. Product testing for search relevancy.
- Technical skills used: SEO, Perl/Shell, editing.
Google, Mountain View, CA, Form Quality Analyst / Search Quality Evaluator, 2006
- Analyzed sites for inclusion into the index
- Technical skills used: HTML
California Polytechnic Foundation, San Luis Obispo, CA, Lecturer / Project Lead, 2003-2005
- Taught Intro to Aerospace courses and labs. Teacher’s assistant in engineering and economics classes.
- Project management, design, construction, and testing of a mechanized, self-stabilized platform used for class demonstration.
- Technical document creation using LaTeX
- Technical skills used: math, physics, MATLAB, LabView, Solidworks, and Excel.
Air Force Research Laboratory, Edwards Air Force Base, CA, Engineering Technician, 2000-2001
- Technician on various electrical propulsion projects for satellite application. Design, fabrication of testing apparatus.
- Technical skills used: math, physics, LabView, and Excel
Education
- BS, Aerospace Engineering, Minor in Economics, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo (1998-2003)
- MS, Aerospace Engineering, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo (2003-2005)
Praise
“…an asset to any organization, combining a rare combination of product passion, business acumen, and analytical prowess. He’s willing to do whatever it takes to get to actionable data that informs business decisions. I look forward to the next opportunity that we have to work together.” -Tony Lopez
“…a great asset to any team that needs to analyze user behavior in for maximizing product usage and optimizing feature-release strategies based on current and desired demographics. He has a good understanding of software and can write programs to help in his analysis. His background and professional experiences give him valuable insights into understand users and in suggesting improvements that might drive use and increase overall software usability.” -Brian Westphal
“…quickly learned the complex systems and tools that my team uses in its work. He had an excellent attitude with working with our customers. That and his attention to detail meant that he was able to meet our customer’s requests efficiently.” -Doug Durham
“…proved to be a highly motivated and flexible self-starter with a rare mix of editorial and technical skills. He quickly achieved mastery of all the web content quality investigative tasks we assigned him at Yahoo, and he also became adept at executing our complex set of relevance test administration scripts. It was a pleasure to manage Ed, and I recommend him without reservation.” -Dave Bohn
“…quickly became one of the most valued team members… His superb work ethics and attention to detail made him the perfect choice for the most technical tasks on our team and those important tasks with fixed deadlines and many dependencies. Ed always went the extra mile to complete his tasks with high accuracy and in a timely manner.” -Elisabeth Fjaerestad
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