James “Augie” Hill
San Francisco, CA · 214-562-3593 · augie@augiehill.com · augiehill.com
Education
University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI September, 2010 - April, 2012
M.S.E., Computer Science (Intelligent Systems) GPA: 7.639 / 9.0 (A = 8)
Research: Strategic Reasoning (Computational Economics)
Southern Methodist University: Dallas, TX August, 2003 - December, 2006
B.S., Computer Engineering (Software); Minor, Mathematics GPA: 3.68 / 4.0 (A = 4)
Experience
Google: Mountain View, CA May, 2014 – Present
Business Analyst
• Google Express (A.K.A. Google Shopping Express)
◦ Define and track project objective metrics
◦ Design, implement, and maintain sales and revenue reporting pipelines and visualizations
◦ Design, implement, and maintain front-end usage reporting pipelines and visualizations
◦ Gather data warehouse requirements and prioritize additional data gathering and processing
◦ Feature design analysis and recommendation
Google, Google Technical Services (gTech): Mountain View, CA July, 2012 – May, 2014
Technical Solutions Consultant
• Google Express (A.K.A. Google Shopping Express)
◦ Design, implement, and maintain inventory reporting pipelines and visualizations.
◦ Design processes and implement tools to support product data quality improvements.
◦ Design requirements and prioritize projects towards improving product data.
◦ Identify opportunities and manage design of improvements to the inventory prediction system.
• Google Shopping: global per-merchant click and cost forecasting; ad hoc analysis for sales vertical
Google, Partner Solutions Organization, Business Intelligence: Mountain View, CA May, 2011 – August, 2011
Associate Technology Manager Intern
Developed front-end features for an internal tool aggregating and analyzing traffic and revenue data per Internet
domain. Developed a prototype of a novel classification of GDN partner sites for use in optimizing ad selection.
University of Michigan, Proteome Research Lab: Ann Arbor, MI February, 2007 - October, 2010
Applications Programmer, Intermediate
Work in a small group to design, develop, test, and document a distributed file repository and a scientific community.
Freelance Developer January, 2003 – Present
Developed software, web, and hardware applications for fun, money, and education. Portfolio at augiehill.com.
Skills
Data SQL; Pipeline Design, Implementation, and Maintenance; Data Visualization; Schema Modeling; Data
Warehouse Requirements; Database Optimization; Semantic Interoperability
Analysis Metric Design, Forecasting, Machine Learning, Game Theory, Mechanism Design, MatLab, Weka
Programming Languages: Java, Python, C++, C; Distributed Systems, Web Server Design
Web HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP, PHP, AJax, HTTP; Apache Tomcat, Django
Network DNS Management, TCP/IP Network Programming, SSL management
Software Excel; Docs; Preso; UNIX: Ubuntu, Mac; Windows; Netbeans IDE; Subversion; Git; Perforce; LaTeX
Other Interests
Hardware Maker
Competitive Ice Dancer 1997-2006, 2007-2008
9-time international, 10-time national competitor. Year-round training regimen of 15 to 40 hours per week.
