Dr. Frank Block

generate data and information by means of analysis and statistics to drive fact based decisions; onsite Search engine

- big data analytics to enhance sales and marketing performance - e-commerce: behavioral predictive targeting software to increase conversion rates - business analysis: (re)design customer relationship systems (e.g. Lufthansa Miles&More) - Data Governance: quantify the business impact of data quality, define actions and roadmaps to enhance data quality - lead software development teams to design and launch new systems for BI, Customer Intelligence, data mining, web analytics, etc.

- After acquisition of my previous company (Predict AG) assure knowledge transfer about customer intelligence and data mining processes for launch of new data analysis tools - Responsible, product director for the financial services market including S-PLUS (today most known is its open source clone as R), FinMetrics for econometric statistics and modeling, NuOPT for advanced optimization of financial portfolios - Participation at sales&marketing events

- Co-Founder of the company - lead solution architect for Customer Intelligence - design of data and information quality management methodologies - project manager and senior consultant at various clients including Yapi Kredi Bank (Istanbul), UBS, Publigroupe

- Design of a new customer intelligence platform to support customer management, targeting and nex best product recommendation on a personalized customer level - Development of a new CI platform including ETL, datawarehouse, Reporting/OLAP, Data Mining, Automated Modeling Engine, Campaign Management System - Software integrated and used were SAS (Base, Macro, Enterprise Miner, OLAP, etc.), Cognos, Chordiant campaign management, Oracle, etc. - solution won the SAS European Industry Award

- applying data mining and advanced analytics for predictive modeling and targeting campaigns; enhancing response rates in direct marketing, reducing churn - introduction of text mining for information retrieval solutions within the private banking sector of the bank; development of a knowledge pool enabling client advisors to more effectively prepare for customer meeting by efficient search of relevant publications, reports, analyses, etc.

research work for my PhD thesis on new particle identification using deep learning (artificial neural networks) and advanced particle detectors and track reconstruction algorithms research work for my Master tesis on artificial intelligence (expert systems) applied to large data acquisition systems in particle physics experiments.

High energy physics, artificial neural networks, particle tracking, artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms

High energy physics, artificial intelligence, expert systems