Daniel Meier

About Daniel Meier

I am interested in tech, gaming, entertainment, and sports and am focused on furthering my career in data science and analytics to help companies refine their goals while improving products and services. While I have gained academic and professional awareness through work and school, I look forward to the continued growth that I have yet to experience.

Experience

1. Strategic Financial Analyst

   Google

   Dec 2021 — Present · Mountain View, CA, US

   Partner with the MagicEye and Photos Analytics teams, extract data, and perform in-depth analyses on user distribution, churn, product mix, upload velocity, paywall hit rate, conversion rate, and cost of sales to calculate user lifetime value (LTV).• Build comprehensive, bottoms-up models that calculate and compare the full estimated P&L of the business to evaluate investment strategies for our products, strategic partnerships for business generation and profitability, and resource allocation.• Use Google SQL and big data to understand and better forecast the growth and volatility of users, subscribers, revenue, and average revenue per user (ARPU). This data is also used to influence executive decision-making for key business initiatives.• Write macros in google sheets to automate the monthly financial reporting process. These macros snap-off all business metrics for Google Photos and create a summary sheet that compares actuals to the forecast, annual plan, and multi-year plan.• Develop, maintain, and present the quarterly financial review to the VP of Finance to drive scalable analysis and insight.

Education

• UCLA

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Statistics

  2014 — 2018

Skills

• Public Speaking
• Stata
• Social Media
• Training
• Cpr Certified
• First Aid
• Sports
• Python
• Event Planning
• Amateur Radio
• Problem Solving
• Ham Radio Operator
• Leadership
• Programming in R
• Sas
• Microsoft Office
• Eagle Boy Scout
• Microsoft Excel
• Sql
• Spss