Claus H.

About Claus H.

With over 20 years hands-on experience as a consultant and leader in data analytics and engineering, I have extensive experience bridging the gap between business and technology for clients ranging from Fortune 50 companies to startups.As a Data & Analytics consultant, I\'ve helped build large-scale analytics solutions at Netflix, Quibi, Omaze, Joymode, The Black Tux, Hush Inc, Wag Walking, California Pizza Kitchen, Universal Studios, Disney and Johnson & Johnson.As Head of Data & Analytics at The Black Tux, I developed the company\'s first data analytics infrastructure, business intelligence and data products for machine learning and statistical modeling. I led a team of data analysts with stakeholders in Operations, Customer Care, Product Management and Growth/Marketing while helping The Black Tux get to $60MM in funding, expand their retail presence and expand distribution capabilities nationwide.Currently, I\'m working with several amazing LA startups, such as Quibi and Omaze on building out their first data warehouse projects and analytic capabilities.Past & current projects include- Data warehouse logical and physical modeling - Interactive dashboards in Looker/Tableau/Periscope/Mode- ETL/ELT pipelines in Airflow/Python- Building scalable data warehouse in BigQuery and Snowflake- Data warehouse migrations from Redshift to Snowflake- Forecasting models for e-commerce orders and shipments in Python (PyMC3) and SQL- Machine learning classification models - Inventory Forecasting Monte-Carlo Simulation- Demand Planning Models (Python)- Marketing attribution modeling (R and SQL)- Customer care agent schedule optimization models using Linear Programming

Experience

1. Staff Analytics Engineer

   Airbnb

   Oct 2021 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Over 4 years, I\'ve worked across a variety of analytics functions, programs and tool at Airbnb- Company product launch metrics and dashboards- Pricing and listing availability data modeling- Anti-bot metrics, data modeling, pipelines and dashboards- Data quality initiatives, Midas-certified metrics and data models- Data stewardship & governance data modeling, pipelines and dashboards- GDPR Cookie data privacy initiative- Analytics lead on personal data element tagging program- Minerva, Airflow, Python, SparkSQL, Trino, Superset, Tableau, ChatGPT (developer productivity)

Education

• University of Southern California

  BS, Business Administration, Entrepreneurship

  1994 — 1997

• USC Marshall School of Business

  MBA, Finance

  2001 — 2004