John LaGue

Pittsburgh, PA · john@johnlague.com

Projects & Publications

Created interactive dashboards to help analyze resources spent building climbing walls. Provided actionable insights to improve efficiency. Also created a sperate interactive climbing map for fun.

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Published in Towards Data Science Dec 13th, 2019. Scraped ~1,000 websites collecting over 200,000 public emails. I sent a messgae to them all with a survey about their daily habits and posture. This is the resulting analysis of the survey data.

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Published in 2018 IEEE 9th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference. Won “Most Impactful Graduate Research” award at University of San Francisco in May, 2017. Improved the accuracy of thyroid disease prediction by 35% compared to prior benchmark, a model built by health startup Influence Health. Our model was trained only on imbalanced demographic data.

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Optimized the assignment of polling centers (places citizens go to vote) to check in centers (intermediary location ballots are collected before going to the main LA elections headquarters). Using Google Maps api we optimized for travel distance and times to reduce the time it took to collect ballots. Decreased ballot collection times by up to 12% using k-means clustering in the 2018 primary elections.

Saved the university $100,000 each year on roommate conflict based churn using machine learning algorithms in R & Python (Random Forests, SVM, and Logistic Regression) to predict which roommate pairings were likely to have conflicts with 90% accuracy.

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Visualized potential factors that increase a movie's gross earnings. Used Tableau, HTML/CSS, JavaScript (d3), MS Excel, and MS Access.

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Analyzed play by play data to determine the optimal lineup of players at any given time using CSV data in R

Experience

Chief Operating Officer

trainwell
  • Hitting your fitness goal is hard. Motivation comes and goes. Plus, it takes effort, time, knowledge, and money. Trainwell makes it easy to hit your fitness goal.
  • Trainwell makes it possible to have a trainer with you wherever you are. Not just a chatbot, but a real trainer who can see your entire workout using our motion analysis tech.
  • I oversee all marketing/growth, people operations/hr, and customer support.
Feb 2020 - Present

Data Analyst

PNC Bank
  • Researched and defined client issues within PNC offerings, including home equities, mortgages, and credit cards.
  • Extracted, cleaned, and analyzed millions of data points to determine customer and financial impact for each project using Python, T-SQL, Hadoop, and/or PL/SQL.
  • Acted as a control point for accuracy by reviewing code and documentation created by other teams.
  • Defined and developed the strategy for identifying mortages with imperfect insurance termination dates, saving customers thousands.
  • Served as a key resource for the SBA Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) at PNC by processing and approving hundreds of small business loans.
Feb 2020 - Sept 2020

Founder

PocketPosture
  • There's a >90% chance that you are slouching or maintaining poor posture while reading this.
  • Pocketposture cultivates healthy posture by providing tools and resources to improve posture.
  • Pocketposture is primarily a fun place for me to experiment with silly marketing (see my Medium/ TDS article).
July 2019 - Present [Covid Impacted]

COO and Co-founder

Community Phone Company (Y Combinator)
  • Co-founded one of the first bootstrapped cell phone carriers in the nation, now a multi-million dollar company
  • Community Phone was funded by Y Combinator (accelerator program that was an early investor in Airbnb, Reddit, and Dropbox) and raised $650,000+ from other well known investors
Dec 2017 - July 2019

Data Science Team

Los Angeles Elections Dep.
  • Decreased ballot collection times by up to 12% using k-means clustering in the 2018 primary elections.
  • Visualized optimized locations and travel distances in R
    • Nov 2017 - May 2018

    Teacher Assistant

    University of San Francisco
    • Business Statistics (Math 106)
    • Calculus for Liberal Arts (Math 107)
    • Statistics with Applications (Math 371)
    • Intro to Data Science (Data Science 100 )
    • Bioinformatics (CS 640)

    Lectured for gradute level course, Bioinformatics, as an undergraduate.

    Graded assignments, quizzes, and projects.

    Jan 2015 - Dec 2017

    Other: Event Staff

    Planet Granite Rock Climbing and Yoga

    Taught students basic climbing technique and lead team building activities. Successfully fostered students’ interest in climbing so they would continue onto the gym’s climbing team.

    Feb 2015 - May 2017

    Education

    Y Combinator

    Startup accelerator that funded Airbnb, Twitch, Dropbox, etc.
    Dec 2018 - Mar 2019

    University of San Francisco

    Bachelor of Science
    Data Science - Computational Analytics concentration

    GPA: 3.85

    Aug 2014 - Dec 2017

    Skills

    Programming Languages & Tools
    Other skills

    Awards, Certifications, & Press

    Side Projects