Michael Melcher

Data Scientist

Denver, Colorado, United States

About

I am software developer who works in big data and business intelligence. PUBLICATIONS Coauthored with K. B. Reid “Monochromatic sinks in arc-colored tournaments with small feedback arc sets.” To Appear Bulletin of the ICA.  Coauthored with K.B. Reid “Monochromatic sinks in nearly transitive arc-colored tournaments.” Discrete Mathematics Volume 310, Issue 20, 28 October 2010, Pages 2697-2704

Experience

  • Sr. Data Engineer II at Life360
    Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

  • Data Scientist at Comcast
    Jun 2017 - Oct 2025 · 8 yrs 5 mos

  • Product Intelligence Developer at Charter Communications
    Aug 2016 - Jun 2017 · 11 mos

    Business intelligence developer reporting on video products for Charter Communications. Responsible for developing dashboards to report on DVR usage, Video On Demand purchases and guide feature usage. Performed data pulls on a Hadoop cluster using Hive, Bash, and Python. Utilized Tableau to report on various KPIs, as well as performed statistical analysis, concerning the deployment and usage of set top boxes. Created reports to assist groups in analyzing software errors to further understand the effects of the errors, as well as allowing teams to pinpoint the source of the errors. Developed internal dashboards to monitor ETL processes and partition sizes of tables to allow quick troubleshooting of various reports.

  • Client Engineer at 3M Health Information Systems
    Sep 2014 - Apr 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Writes and maintains perl scripts to perform ETL functions on medical notes. Develops shell scripts to automate tasks related to testing of perl modules designed to perform WTL tasks. Creates XML documents for mapping documents for processing.

  • Data Analyst at ClickFox
    Jun 2013 - Sep 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Maintains Perl scripts to assist in interfacing with databases, model creation, and data audits. Utilizes MapReduce to parallelize ETL functions Worked with the UI development team to create a more robust front end for the information architecture team to use to develop models. Worked with the system administrators to develop a better understanding of system architecture needs across both teams. Worked with fortune 50 clients in the banking, telecommunication, and IT support industries, to facilitate understanding of data models. Modeled customer journeys across multiple channels, such as web, ivr, email, and service requests, to decrease customer churn as well as decreasing customer service costs. Utilizes tools such as Awk, Sed, and Perl to perform data audits. Develops R scripts to run statistical analysis as well as for data audits. Builds large scale data models using PDI and an internal programming language.