Breaking Games Externship via Extern

Graduate student in Applied Mathematics, focused on data analytics

I build analytical models and extract insights from real data to solve people and operational problems while I develop technical skills.

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Portfolio items include data-driven projects and an Amazon externship where I scraped employee reviews, analyzed people data, and developed persona-driven retention strategies.

Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship
Amazon · Oct 2026 · ✅ Verified by Extern
Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship
Imagine shaping how AMAZON — yes, THE Amazon — welcomes and keeps its workforce. Every year, Amazon loses billions because new hires leave before Day 90.You’re going to fix that. In this externship, you’ll web scrape real-world employee reviews from across the web, extract actionable insights, and design persona-driven strategies to help Learning Ambassadors connect smarter, faster, and more humanely.It’s part research, part strategy—and all about learning how people data drives big decisions.
OperationsStrategyAI & MLData AnalysisPythonPresentation Skills
Breaking Games E-Commerce Data Analysis & Strategy Externship
Breaking Games · ✅ Verified by Extern · ⏱️ In progress
Breaking Games E-Commerce Data Analysis & Strategy Externship
An externship analyzing multiple marketing and sales datasets from an e-commerce tabletop games seller to measure shopper behavior and identify friction in the purchase funnel.
Data AnalysisDigital MarketingSalesPresentation Skills

About me

I build analytical models and extract insights from real data to solve people and operational problems while I develop technical skills.

I am a graduate student in Applied Mathematics at Western Michigan University focused on data analytics. I have limited formal work experience and am building technical and professional skills through coursework and project-based externships, including a people-analytics externship with Amazon.

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Breaking Games E-Commerce Data Analysis & Strategy Externship

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Skills

Web scrapingData cleaningExploratory data analysisStatistical modelingData visualizationPythonPandasDescriptive analytics

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Amazon · Oct 2026 ↗

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Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship

Imagine shaping how AMAZON — yes, THE Amazon — welcomes and keeps its workforce. Every year, Amazon loses billions because new hires leave before Day 90.You’re going to fix that. In this externship, you’ll web scrape real-world employee reviews from across the web, extract actionable insights, and design persona-driven strategies to help Learning Ambassadors connect smarter, faster, and more humanely.It’s part research, part strategy—and all about learning how people data drives big decisions.

OperationsStrategyAI & MLData AnalysisPythonPresentation Skills

Overview

The work examined how fulfillment center operations relate to new-hire experiences and early retention. It combined web-scraped employee reviews with qualitative analysis and produced persona-driven insight summaries. Deliverables included a structured, CSV-style workforce roster and recommended early-tenure touchpoints.

Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship

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What I've accomplished

I produced a structured, CSV-style workforce roster that listed each fulfillment-center role, primary responsibilities, close collaborators, common tools and systems, and annotating notes.

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Breaking Games E-Commerce Data Analysis & Strategy Externship

An externship analyzing multiple marketing and sales datasets from an e-commerce tabletop games seller to measure shopper behavior and identify friction in the purchase funnel.

Data AnalysisDigital MarketingSalesPresentation Skills

Overview

The project combined Google Analytics, Meta Ads, and Shopify data to examine user journeys across marketing touchpoints and the checkout funnel. The work cleaned and merged cross-platform datasets, traced conversion paths, and quantified where shoppers dropped off in the purchase process.

Breaking Games E-Commerce Data Analysis & Strategy Externship

What I've accomplished

I analyzed combined marketing and sales data to map customer journeys, identify drop-off points, and produce evidence-based recommendations for improving checkout conversion.

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Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship

Breaking Games E-Commerce Data Analysis & Strategy Externship

About me

Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship

Overview

What I've accomplished

Project breakdown

Understand the Operational ChallengeI mapped an Amazon fulfillment center workforce, listing roles, responsibilities, and tools used.

Collect & Clean Employee Voice DataI collected, cleaned, and structured employee feedback from Glassdoor and YouTube to produce analysis-ready datasets and examples of strong vs weak employee voice.

Find Sentiment & Keyword Patterns in Employee Voice DataI cleaned Glassdoor reviews, extracted keywords, scored sentiment, and compared patterns across Glassdoor and YouTube to summarize platform differences and top themes.

Uncover Themes & Root Causes in Employee Voice DataI identified three core themes from employee feedback and analyzed sentiment and root causes for the highest-priority issue.

Segment the Workforce & Identify PrioritiesI created labeled workforce segments and ranked them to identify priority cohorts for intervention.

Breaking Games E-Commerce Data Analysis & Strategy Externship

Overview

What I've accomplished

Project breakdown

Follow the customer journey to a saleI reconstructed the end-to-end customer journey by aligning sessions, ad clicks, and Shopify orders, then outlined common paths from first touch to purchase and where shoppers exited the funnel.

Understand how businesses catch attention onlineI analyzed marketing touchpoints from social ads, search, and email, identifying what was tracked in each channel and summarizing how those touchpoints correlated with clicks and subsequent sessions.