Work Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Bayer Crop Science
Data Science Intern - New Business Models
June 2022 – Present Remote
  • Cleaned, explored, analyzed, and presented relevant business insights from 4 large public datasets focused on crop insurance policies and claims
  • Performed monthly data experiments and presented the results to business partners to facilitate decision making in NBMs
  • Used economic theory to assess value of NBMs from the farmer’s POV
 
 
 
 
 
University of California - Irvine (Department of Statistics)
Teaching Assistant
August 2021 – December 2022 Irvine, CA
  • Classes: STATS 7, STATS 8, STATS 67, STATS 112, STATS 120A
  • Led weekly discussion of 10-20 students discussing and reviewing new material
  • Aided struggling students in a one-on-one setting
  • Created test questions and homework assignments, aided in grading
 
 
 
 
 
CLA (CLiftonLarsenAllen, LLP)
Data Science Intern
January 2020 – September 2021 Remote
  • Developed R Shiny applications within the Golem framework for 5 internal projects which were hosted in the production environment and experienced heavy use by up to 300 users
  • Contributed functions and documentation to 4 internal R packages for easier operations with Azure Datalake and Azure Database
  • Automated PowerPoint creation with R to populate template slide decks with data and information about any subgroup of the firm
  • Extracted usable datasets from firm databases using Tidyverse data manipulation principles so leaders can assess progress
 
 
 
 
 
Brigham Young University (Department of Statistics)
Teaching and Course Assistant (STAT 121)
December 2018 – May 2020 Provo, UT
  • Led weekly discussion of 30-50 students to review material learned in class
  • Aided struggling students in a one-on-one setting for 10 hours each week
  • Created test questions and homework assignments, aided in grading
  • Ran administrative functions of the class such as regrade requests, designing of assignments, and training of new TAs
Spencer Matthews

Spencer Matthews

PhD Student in Statistics

University of California - Irvine