Hello world! Welcome my website.

I am Tim, and my current interests are in data science, analysis, and visualization. I have experience applying statistical/econometric/machine learning methods to data and sharing what I learn by creating visualizations and writing or presenting commentary.

Since in-person meetings are limited during the COVID-19 pandemic, I created this website as a place for people to find me and to blog about things I find interesting. I plan to use this website primarily as a hybrid personal and professional blog and as a place for people to connect with me.

My personal story meanders a bit. I grew up in Monroe, Michigan, a small city close to Lake Erie and about 40 miles from downtown Detroit. I graduated from Monroe High School in 2009. I enjoyed playing percussion instruments in the high school band and jazz band, and I found my love of jazz and classical music.

From there, I went to The College of Wooster in Ohio. I found my interest in data while I pursued my economics degree and mathematics minor. I learned research skills while I wrote my undergraduate thesis in applied economics, studying student achievement and school closings in Michigan. I also discovered a passion for travel after studying abroad in the economics department at University College London. During the summers in 2011 and 2012, I worked in Monroe as an intern for DTE Energy. I valued the opportunity and the wide variety of projects I worked on.

After I earned my BA in Economics, I took an internship to work with a professor from Wooster on his sabbatical. We studied Ethiopian agricultural data from a countrywide sample of farm plots over multiple years to rank agricultural productivity in several crops at a localized level. I learned a lot from this experience, and I improved my research and data analysis skills.

Following the internship, I took a full-time position at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland as a research analyst. I worked on several different projects including some published by the Federal Reserve and others that were used for internal briefings. These projects expanded my data analytics toolbox; I also improved my coding and computing skills by automating several calculations and charts. I left the Federal Reserve to attend Simon Business School at the University of Rochester, and I earned a Master of Science in Business Administration in August 2019.

If you would like to learn more about my professional background, I invite you to look at my about me page or download my resume. If you want to reach out, feel free to contact me.