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🛡️ Expert-Vetted: Top 1% of Upwork Freelancers 🛡️ 👋 Hello! I'm Josh. I use advanced analytics and data storytelling to help you unlock the power of your consumer data and make informed decisions. End results might include a research study design, customer segmentation, pricing analysis, predictive models, Tableau dashboards, or a strategic insights report. Throughout the journey, I'm a partner and advisor. I use design thinking and agile concepts to understand the problem to solve and focus on what's most important to your business and customers. During my 12-year tenure at a Big 4 firm and now as an independent consultant, I've developed a reputation for delivering precise and creative insights. I'm also a data storytelling coach and founder of the Market Research Tableau User Group. I look forward to working with you! ---------- SERVICES 💸 Pricing & Prioritization • MaxDiff and best-worst scaling (feature prioritization) • TURF analysis • Van Westendorp / Gabor-Granger • Choice-Based Conjoint (CBC) and Adaptive Choice-Based Conjoint (ACBC), using Hierarchical Bayes estimation and built in Sawtooth Software • Market simulators • Custom discrete choice experiments for product configuration, trade-offs, and price elasticity • Willingness to pay research 🔍 Segmentation & Modeling • Market segmentation (attitudinal, behavioral, hybrid), using cluster, latent class, and factor analysis • Typing tools for future targeting • Cluster and factor analysis • Predictive models (churn, adoption, satisfaction) • Key driver analysis • Persona development 🧩 Survey & Research Design • Questionnaire design (B2C + B2B) • Sample frame and screener development • Fieldwork support (recruitment/programming - direct or via partners) • Custom research plans tied to business goals 📊 Data Visualization • Executive-ready charts and reporting • Tableau dashboards (static and interactive) • Embedded dashboards for internal teams or clients • Automated reporting workflows 💡Insights & Strategy Consulting • Synthesis of research, internal data, and strategic context • Data storytelling for executive audiences • Custom insights reports and stakeholder workshops • Secondary research and competitive context ---------- 🔥 PASSIONS • Improving product and service experiences by understanding customer preferences and behavior • Integrating internal data with research data to reveal the complete customer narrative • Combining creativity with proven analytical methods to generate novel insights 🎓 CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAINING Marketing and Analytics Certificate Programs - DePaul: ▪ Predictive Analytics ▪ Multichannel Marketing ▪ Social Media Marketing ▪ Digital Marketing Optimizing Features and Pricing Using Survey Research – Sawtooth Software: ▪ MaxDiff (Maximum Difference Scaling) ▪ CBC (Choice-Based Conjoint) ▪ ACBC (Adaptive Choice-Based Conjoint) Other Certifications: ▪ Foundations in Design Thinking Certificate – IDEO U ▪ Customer Journey Mapping, UX Psychology Workshops ▪ Certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator ▪ Design Sprint Masterclass – AJ&Smart ▪ Improv Level A – The Second City ▪ Project Management Professional ▪ Certified Scrum Master

*** Please note, I get a fair number of invitations to interview for jobs where the budget is very low, $50 or $25 and so on. While I would like to help, I just don't have the time for smaller or low-budget projects. I am looking for larger, multi-hour projects that are paid on an hourly basis (not flat fee) and have a minimum budget of $500. Thanks for understanding. *** I have over 30 years of experience in research, evaluation, statistics, and project management. I have advanced evaluation and statistical analytic skills and am fluent in Stata and SPSS and have been developing my analytic skills using R to where I am now comfortable working in this language as well.. I also use Mplus for latent variable modeling. I have designed and analyzed online surveys using Survey Monkey, Qualtrix, and REDCap. I have a PhD in clinical psychology and am a tenured Full Professor. I teach beginning and intermediate statistics to doctoral and master's level students. I also teach program evaluation and mental health policy, including substance abuse policy. For samples of my writing style, you are welcome to use the "Look Inside" feature on Amazon to review sections of my book: Substance abuse in America: A documentary and reference guide. I am also happy to provide samples of papers published in peer-reviewed journals. My writing and oral skills are excellent and I am comfortable both developing as well as conducting trainings, workshops, and presentations. I can also help with editing and writing technical or non-technical documents but I am highly selective about this kind of work. I will be happy to review sections in dissertations and theses, but I will not write these or other student papers because I believe this violates academic integrity. I also will not accept homework assignments for the same reason. Things I can help you do: 1) Translate data in Excel or ASCII format into a data set for analysis in just about any commonly used statistical program. 2) Run basic screening and descriptive statistics such as frequencies, measures of central tendency and dispersion, and distributional statistics to assess skew and kurtosis. 3) Run bivariate analyses such as t-tests, correlations, and chi-square tests as well as non-parametric procedures like Kruskal-Wallis. 4) Check missing values and conduct imputation-based analyses for missing data as needed. 5) Run more advanced analytical models including: factorial ANOVA, regression (OLS, binary, ordinal, and multinomial logistic as well as Poisson and negative binomial), GEE for repeated measures data, HLM, factor analysis, latent class analysis, SEM, and growth mixture models. 6) Review and advise on statistical analyses already run including interpretation of the findings. 7) Review, advise, and edit write-ups of statistical results and methods sections. 8) Prospective advice on study design, including sampling, measures, and data collection protocols. 9) Write and edit proposals. I am available to be a project evaluator and would be happy to help you write the evaluation section of your proposal as well as conduct the evaluation if funded. Or, if you just need a review and editing of your proposal, I can do that as well. 10) Develop surveys and survey questions. I have extensive experience developing surveys including online surveys using tools such as Survey Monkey, REDCap, and Qualtrics. If you are unsure whether I can help with your project, please do not hesitate to send me a message. I reply promptly and will give you an honest answer. I never take on work that I don't feel I can complete successfully and within your time frame or which might take me an inordinate amount of time.

I provide institutional-grade financial research, trading analytics, and statistical market insights for clients who need more than boilerplate summaries. What I deliver: • Equity research with real catalyst forecasting • Trading strategy evaluation (win-rate, drawdowns, Monte Carlo) • Options strategy review, risk analysis, and volatility assessment • Fundamental + technical hybrid reports • Python-based backtests, screeners, and automated reports • Google Sheets dashboards (pricing models, risk metrics, relative strength) I’m a Statistics PhD candidate with hands-on experience building quant models, analyzing catalysts/timelines, constructing risk frameworks, interpreting filings, and generating trading insights across all market caps (especially small-cap and biotech catalysts). My work is: • Clear — no fluff, no filler • Data-driven — real numbers, statistical logic • Actionable — what matters, when it matters • Decision-focused — not academic, but practical Typical Projects I Solve: ✔ Summaries of upcoming catalysts with dates, expected scenarios, risk factors ✔ Evaluation of swing-trading systems with backtests + probability distributions ✔ Audit of a client’s portfolio: sector risks, beta exposure, worst-case outcomes ✔ Python scripts to automate market scans or pull API data ✔ Creation of 1–5 page investment briefs for traders or small funds Who hires me: • Retail traders who want professional-grade analysis • Small funds + investment groups • Fintech teams needing outsourced research • Founders needing market modeling or valuation help If you want analysis that actually changes decisions, not regurgitated summaries — I’m the guy you hire. Send me a message and tell me what you need. I'll respond quickly, give a straightforward plan, and deliver clean, data-backed work.

Your team is still doing by hand what AI can now automate — rebuilding the same reports every month, re-keying data between systems, reconciling numbers that should reconcile themselves. I build the AI automations and systems that make that manual work disappear — for finance and healthcare teams whose data is messy, regulated, and high-stakes. I design and ship reliable, AI-powered workflows: automated reporting pipelines, "talk to your data" assistants, document and data-entry automation, and custom AI agents — built to run safely and unattended. I do it with real engineering discipline (governed, permission-scoped, tested — not a brittle no-code hack), so you get automation you can trust with sensitive financial or HIPAA-protected data. The proof: $30K+ earned and a 100% Job Success Score on Upwork (694 hours), an MS in Finance (DePaul), and years inside fund administration (Alter Domus, HFR) automating financial reporting. In healthcare, I re-engineered a practice's raw NextGen/EHR backend — mapping thousands of CPT and insurance billing codes into a clean reporting model — and the resulting KPI reporting helped support the due diligence behind a successful acquisition. I also build agentic AI systems hands-on (a full personal-operations AI app and a multi-agent automation toolkit, public on GitHub). Most "AI" freelancers can't actually build. I ship. Where I'm strongest: complex, regulated data operations — fund administrators, alternative asset managers, RIAs, and back-office finance teams (AUA, NAV cycles, investor reporting), plus healthcare practices wrestling NextGen/EHR data, insurance billing, and M&A data cleanup. I own the whole chain: data model → automation → AI layer → the dashboard or agent your team actually uses. Power BI, SQL, and DAX are still my backbone — now delivered AI-accelerated, and increasingly as automations that run themselves. Tell me the one task your team repeats every week that everybody hates — message me a quick description and I'll tell you exactly how I'd automate it.

I'm a consultant with extensive experience in brand strategy and data analytics. Whether you're trying to extrapolate insights from a data set or develop a gameplan for your business- I can help! • I'm an expert with Excel and Powerpoint, and proficient with analytics programs like R and Python. • I can help develop anything you may need from dashboards to full project reports. • I will continue to work with you until you have exactly what you need.