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Data Scientist @ Understanding and improving SMB experience on Facebook through A/B experiments and exploratory research From February 2015 to Present (11 months) Product Manager, Data Science and R&D @ - Partnered with the CTO and swat team of engineers on the development of a new business-critical product. Interviewed potential customers, defined priorities, and helped ship an alpha version within two months - Implemented an innovative solution to replace the most problematic and time-consuming step in the customer flow (generation of Gold data for quality assurance) - Prototyped features with the Data Science Team and shipped them (expected quality of contributions, fraud detection, platform automation and analytics) - Spearheaded contributor UX research and tested out most promising features that boost quality and satisfaction - Managed a team of two Product Analysts to perform side-by-side tests and track metrics for new initiatives From June 2014 to October 2014 (5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Manager, Advanced Solutions @ - Lead a team of analysts responsible for scoping, custom engineering, and delivery of crowdsourcing projects for enterprise customers - Performed quality assessments, A/B tests, optimization to drive CrowdFlower's crowdsourcing solutions - Developed a framework and set of applications to diagnose and improve crowdsourcing jobs: data summaries and visualizations, outlier detection, data transformation (coolstuff.crowdflower.com) From February 2013 to May 2014 (1 year 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaDecision Support Engineering Analyst @ Search Infrastructure From August 2011 to 2013 (2 years) Data Analysis Intern @ From 2010 to 2011 (1 year)

Master's Degree, Statistics @ Stanford University From 2009 to 2011 Economics, Economics&Finance @ State University — Higher School of Economics From 2005 to 2009 Catherine Calugaru is skilled in: Statistics, Financial Modeling, Data Analysis, Strategy, Business Strategy, Analytics, Start-ups, Management Consulting, HTML, Python, Analysis, Entrepreneurship, Product Management, Project Management, Econometrics