Daniel Jarratt
Data scientist
I create personalized decision support systems for education
- Prediction of school enrollment outcomes for state departments of education
- Personalized college and career readiness and college search
Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA
Education
Master of science in computer science — University of Minnesota
- GroupLens research lab: advisors Joseph Konstan and Brent Hecht
- Recommender systems and social computing
Bachelor of arts — Valparaiso University
- Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude honors
- Television and radio production, humanities
Awards
White House and U.S. Department of Education
- Education Datapalooza (highlighted in keynote; presented to Undersecretary; 2013)
- Education Datapalooza (2012)
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, College Summit, King Center Charter School
- College Knowledge Challenge (competitive $100,000 grant; 2012)
Software and Information Industry Association
- Top 10 in 2012 Innovation Incubator (2012)
Boy Scouts of America
- Eagle Scout (2003)
Media coverage
The Weightlist. "From admissions counselor to data scientist" (2018).
Kentucky Teacher. "Crafting a better tool for dropout prevention" (2016).
Chronicle of Higher Education. "Netflix-like algorithm drives new college-finding tool" (2014).
New England Cable News. "Maine company helps high school seniors with college" (2014).
Experience
Data scientist — Infinite Campus student information system
- Designed, implemented, and tested machine-learned school dropout early warning system for millions of K-12 students nationwide. Wrote predictive system bias detection and mitigation. Wrote automated data preparation and modeling pipelines, prediction endpoint, and ETL and data warehousing scripts.
- Advised CEO and executive team, wrote policy proposals, and represented the company to external stakeholders.
- Mentoring and team development.
R, SQL, Python
Software engineer
2015-2016
- Software maintenance engineering for large SQL Server and Java web application.
- Promoted to data scientist.
Java, SQL, XSL/FO
Recommender systems consultant — employer confidential (among largest in college search industry)
2015
- Advised leadership team on personalized college search technology.
- Prototyped recommender systems.
Software engineering Ph.D. intern — Google Now (now Google Assistant)
Summer 2014
- Designed and implemented location-based recommendation software extending Google Maps and Google Now (now Google Assistant).
- Deployed application to data centers.
C++, Python, JavaScript
Recommender systems consultant — Get Schooled
2014
- Advised leadership team on personalized college and career readiness systems.
Technical product manager — PossibilityU
2011-2013
- Defined and prioritized the product roadmap and managed the implementation team. Full responsibility for the college recommender system.
- Managed stakeholder collaboration including school administrators, families, student services staff, other vendors, and internal people and processes.
Entrepreneur, software engineer, product manager — College Recommender
2011
- Envisioned and built college and career readiness software to infer college search preferences and create personalized recommendations.
- Sold the technology to PossibilityU in an aquisition-and-hire.
International office intern — Reutlingen University
2007—2008
Invited talks
Minnesota Department of Education
- Regional Centers of Excellence (2018)
- Early Indicator and Response System leadership (2018)
Kentucky Department of Education
- with Louisville Promise and United Community (2018)
- Directors of Pupil Personnel (2017)
- Persistence to Graduation statewide staff conference (2017)
- Chief officers (2016)
- Persistence to Graduation statewide staff conference (2016)
Infinite Campus
- Engineering all-hands (2018)
- for Senator Amy Klobuchar (2017)
- All-hands (2016)
Bureau of Indian Education
- Native American Student Information System leadership (2018)
Mississippi Department of Education
- Office of Research and Analytics leadership (2018)
MinneAnalytics
- Sports analytics conference (2017)
- Google Now, now Assistant: global team (2014)