Jerry Mischel

About Jerry Mischel

Data scientist for engineering team at Kenworth with more than 10 years of communications experience in the technology industry. Primary role is to analyze data during design, production and post-production phases of truck builds to help improve engineering processes- 5 years experience designing dashboards in Tableau- 4 years experience developing and evaluating machine learning models

Experience

1. Senior Data Scientist

   Kenworth Truck Co.

   Apr 2024 — Present · Kirkland, WA, US

   Lead advanced analytics projects to support KW engineering leadership find key insights into workflows and predict potential issues impacting truck production.Explore, test and implement new technologies to create AI agents that help engineers reduce effort and time in their day-to-day.Create and manage Tableau and PowerBI dashboards for engineering and program management departments.Led the creation of the PACCAR-wide Snowflake User Group and manage monthly meetings to spread knowledge of Snowflake features, PACCAR use cases and PACCAR data initiatives to more than members.Significant experience building and training supervised and unsupervised machine learning models to predict potential issues with new truck content, trucks weights, and translating unstructured data from part drawings to structured data.Mentor and guide data analysts and data scientists throughout Kenworth to create analytical solutions that help the business save time and money.Shared stakeholder communication best practices and insights about PACCAR/Kenworth analytics with two groups of 30 graduate students at Seattle University.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  BS, Public Relations

  1997 — 2002

• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

  Master's degree, Data Science

  2017 — 2019

Skills

• Press Releases
• Digital Media
• Announcements
• Spokesperson
• Content Strategy
• Media Lists
• Newsletters
• Online Advertising
• Digital Marketing
• Event Planning
• Public Relations
• Internal Communications
• Media Relations
• Message Development
• Messaging
• Copywriting
• Reputation Management
• Media Outreach
• Thought Leadership
• Cision
• Press Release Development
• Fact Sheets
• Editing
• Speech Writing
• Publicity
• Social Networking
• Social Media Measurement
• Communications Planning
• Corporate Communications
• Social Media
• Strategic Partnerships
• Strategic Communications
• Public Affairs
• Blogging
• Marketing Communications
• Facebook
• Social Media Marketing
• Writing
• Crisis Management
• Integrated Marketing