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Sam Affolter

Sam Affolter

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Building strategic advantage from complex data.

My Work

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DataLab

Testing N-HiTS on Sector ETFs

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Testing Croston (Optimized) on Sector ETFs

DataLab

Testing AutoARIMA on Sector ETFs

DataLab

Testing CatBoost on Sector ETFs

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Testing Kalman Forecaster on Sector ETFs

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Testing Block RNNs on Sector ETFs

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Testing Fast Fourier Transfrom on Sector ETFs

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Gold Service Virtual Tour

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Amazon's One-Hour Delivery Service Goes Live Across Manhattan | TechCrunch

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Small Business Month

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What IAs Need to Know About Smart Home Technology | Agent for the Future

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PrimeNow London

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Pet Insurance | Safeco Insurance

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5G Advanced Network Solutions for Business

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T-Mobile pitches to businesses with new Enterprise Unlimited, Home Office Internet offers - CNET

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Amazon Restricts Sale of DVDs

My Certifications

These are the industry credentials that I’ve earned.

Other Certificates

Ohio State University Research Methods in Political Psychology

DataCamp Course Completion

Take a look at all the courses I’ve completed on DataCamp.

My Work Experience

Where I've interned and worked during my career.

Root Inc | Feb 2025 - Present

Director, Growth Strategy & Analytics

Lead company-wide growth strategy and analysis (marketing & distribution across D2C, Strategic Partners, & B2B2C)
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T-Mobile | Jan 2021 - Dec 2023

Pricing Strategy & Portfolio Optimization - T-Mobile for Business

Lead efforts for go-to-market, rack-rate, and promotional pricing across all segments of T-Mobile for Business wireless service.

Liberty Mutual Insurance | Apr 2016 - Jan 2021

Channel Innovation & Digital Transformation

Led Research & Development org for our $18B retail agent distribution channel.

University of Washington: Professional & Continuing Education | Sep 2013 - Jul 2017

Instructor, Business Intelligence: Techniques for Decision Making

The BI Tech certificate provides professionals with an understanding of data analysis, visualization, and mining. I taught the first two courses, mostly through in-class courses, but also as an online course in 2017. The data analysis course focused on: - SQL (aggregations, joins & unions, embedded queries & with statements, and more) - introductory statistical analysis (z-scores, p-values, confidence intervals, and regression analysis) - forecasting (moving averages, exponential smoothing, X-11, trend projections, regression models) The data visualization course included: - fundamentals visualization (pattern familiarity, change blindness, pre- attentive visual attributes, Tufte's data-to-ink ratio, and the Schneiderman Mantra) - non-quantitative visualizations (system maps, relationship diagrams, hierarchies, multiple cause & fishbone diagrams) - quantitative visualizations (dot-plot, box-and-whisker, cycle plots, Pareto charts, table lens) - dashboarding (Tableau, PowerBI, and Excel)

Amazon | Jan 2015 - Feb 2016

Product Management (Pricing and Analytics), Prime Now

I built a team that was responsible for scrappy, yet scalable analytics tools that could be iterated as we expanded rapidly through 2015. We also served as the pricing owners for launch and pricing SME post-launch.

Amazon | Oct 2012 - Dec 2014

Product Management (Pricing & Analytics, 3P, Innovation), Movies and Music

I led a team responsible for the third party platforms, product innovation projects, pricing strategy, and business analysis for the physical movies and music categories. We worked with 3rd party vendors, our platform merchants, and internal teams to identify trends in the market and develop changes that would meet identified needs while aligning with Amazon's longer term strategic goals.

Safeco Insurance: A Liberty Mutual Company | Mar 2011 - Oct 2012

Marketing Analytics and Insights

I led a team of marketing analysts to provide data driven recommendations for targeting spend in both online and offline domains.

Safeco Insurance: A Liberty Mutual Company | May 2008 - Feb 2011

Product Analytics

Worked with the Director of State operations, systems engineers, actuarials, and legal to develop new solutions for our auto insurance customers.

Safeco Insurance: A Liberty Mutual Company | Apr 2007 - May 2008

Risk Analytics

Responsible for review of agents' books of insurance policies to find poor performers. Once found, I worked out how those agents could turn around their business.

Credit International: CCV | Dec 2005 - Mar 2007

Project Management

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My Education

Take a look at my formal education

MBA in Technology Management & EntrepreneurshipUniversity of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business
Master's of Arts in Political ScienceWestern Washington University
Bachelors of Arts in PhilosophyWestern Washington University
Graduate-level Certification in Quant & Qual Research Methods in Political PsychologyThe Ohio State University

About Me

Sam Affolter

Love learning more than most. Looking to keep sharp and explore more. Would love to network with likeminded folks.

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