Jim Maurer

Jim Maurer has extensive work experience in data science and analytics. Jim began their career as VP of International Services at Information Resources, Inc in 1998 and later became VP of Technology Product Management. In 2004, they worked as a consultant at Ajilon Consulting, specifically at Allstate Insurance. From 2006 to 2014, they held various roles at Catalina Marketing, including Executive Director of Analytic Consulting and Group Vice President of US Analytics/Integrated Digital Analytics. In 2015, they co-founded 360 Data Science, LLC and served as CEO and Chief Data Scientist until 2017. Currently, they work as the Principal Data Scientist at Volkswagen of America, Inc.

Jim Maurer has a diverse education history. Jim obtained their MBA degree in Marketing, Finance, and Accounting from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where they studied from 1997 to 2000. Prior to that, they pursued a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science at Northern Illinois University. Jim also completed a Master's degree in Economics/Econometrics at the same institution.

Additionally, Jim earned a Certificate in Web Development from Harper College in 2015, specializing in HTML5, CSS3, PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, Ajax, and Adobe Suite (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Edge).

Apart from their formal education, Jim has obtained several certifications. These certifications include Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in April 2022, Certified SAFe® 5 Practitioner from Scaled Agile, Inc. in January 2022, Applications & Use Cases Professional from RapidMiner in February 2021, RapidMiner Machine Learning Professional from RapidMiner in January 2021, Practical Machine Learning from Coursera Course Certificates in February 2017, NoSQL for SQL Professionals from LinkedIn in January 2017, R Programming from Coursera Course Certificates in September 2016, and Getting and Cleaning Data from Coursera Course Certificates in August 2015.

Furthermore, Jim holds an edX Verified Certificate for Introduction to Apache Spark, although the specific details for when and where they obtained it are not provided.