Student Profile

Aidan Calderhead

2024-09-05

Welcome to an HTML R Markdown document outlining me, Aidan Calderhead! You will find details on my career background and trajectory, background in analytic software, and general fun facts about me. This project was created for the completion of BANA 7025 Lab Module 2: Part 1. For additional details, check out my LinkedIn profile.

Career Path

Hello! I am in the business of learning how to cultivate data-driven decision-making through mathematics and data analytics, and I’m excited to be pursuing this calling at the M.S. Business Analytics program at the University of Cincinnati. My current career interests involve cross-functional roles that heavily utilize mathematical modeling, optimization, and statistics through computational data analysis, which is why I’m pursuing roles in operations research analytics to utilize these interests in the business world. I have a loose dream that one day I could be involved in disaster response analytics, but that feels like a lifetime away!

Academic Background

  1. B.A. in Mathematics and Data Analytics (Malone University | Aug. 2020 – May 2024 | Canton, OH)
    • Honors Student Graduate
    • Honors Thesis: A Three-Stage Binary Integer Linear Programming Approach to the University Course Timetabling Problem at Malone University
      • Developed a decision-support system to automate and improve course timetabling for Dept. of Natural Sciences.
      • Created a three-stage binary integer linear programming model implemented in Excel with OpenSolver.
      • Generated a near-optimal timetable for Fall 2024 using university data and faculty preferences.
  2. M.S. in Business Analytics (University of Cincinnati | Expected May 2025 | Cincinnati, OH)

Professional Background

Most of my professional experience stems from student roles at Malone University. I held the roles of:

  • Academic Peer Tutor (Fall 2021 – Spring 2024)
  • Resident Assistant (Fall 2021 – Spring 2024)
  • IT and Media Services Student Worker (Summers of 2021–2023)
  • Student Data Analyst for Admissions (Fall 2022 – Spring 2023)

These roles provided me with entry-level technical skills in data cleaning and data visualization with Tableau in addition to the following soft skills:

  • Explaining technical information to a wide array of audiences,
  • Consulting different departments,
  • and building community involvement.

Currently I’m a master’s student in business analytics at the University of Cincinnati with an elective focus in analytics techniques with mathematics and operations analytics. During this fall semester, I’m currently working as a TA for Business Analytics I/II (in two different sections), and I’m open to additional part-time work to be able to pay for my living expenses!

Technical Skills with Analytic Software

I would like to note that my programming experience start at the age of 13 with Scratch, a visual block-building approach to programming designed by MIT to make coding more accessible for all ages. I’ve come a long way since then!

Experience with R

I first used R in my Probability and Statistics II course at Malone back in the spring semester of 2020. We used R in that class for three projects and some homework assignments to conduct statistical tests and create a predictive model for classifying the Iris Flower data set. However, I haven’t touched R since that course. It’s certainly been awhile!

Experience with Other Analytic Software

Most of my analytics experience has revolved around Python and Excel, which I’ve used for course projects such as my honors thesis, which I implemented in Excel, and independent projects such as when I attempted to determine the best secondary character to counter the weaknesses of a player’s primary character in Super Smash Bros Ultimate, which I primary completed with Python with data storage in Excel.

Fun Facts About Myself

  • I lived in Canton, Ohio, since the age of five. This year in Cincinnati, Ohio, is the first time I’ve moved away from my home city!
  • I’m engaged to my college sweetheart, and we plan to get married in June or July of 2025. My fiancée is applying to medical schools starting in the fall of 2025, which is one of the major reasons I picked this nine-month program to attend UC! Job hunting will certainly be difficult because we’re not sure where we’ll be living next year until she finds out if she’s been accepted anywhere.
  • In my free time, I love to:
    • Play chess,
    • Play pickle ball,
    • Play soccer,
    • and engage creatively with photography!

I hope you enjoyed getting to know me a little more :)