Chen has over five years of experience in combining his data analysis and communications skills to influence day-to-day business decision making. He has deep experience in leading strategic cross-functional collaboration by helping diverse sets of stakeholders understand the connections between data insights and underlying business problems. Previously, he successfully led a six-month project to implement real-time reporting of KPI metrics by integrating a MySQL database with Tableau, which supported the firm’s objective to become more data-driven. At NYC Data Science Academy, he combined machine learning algorithms and business domain knowledge to forecast GDP growth in the European Union using over 460 annual macroeconomic indicators.