About Tony Goebel

Hello, my name is Tony Goebel. I’m currently a full-time student in the MS Business Analytics program here at University of Cincinnati. I was born and raised in Northern Kentucky right across the river from Cincinnati.

Academic Background

• B.S. Industrial Management from Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati
• M.S. Business Analytics from Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati

Professional Background

1. Product Analyst Intern, American Modern Insurance Amelia, OH

   • Worked 8 months in insurance product analytics while pursuing my bachelors.
   • Worked on team of analysts that worked cross-functionally to ensure product profitability for specialty homeowner insurance products in the central region of United States.
   • This included setting strategic rates based on combined sale and risk data.

2. Industrial Engineering Co-op,Wayfair Hebron, KY

   • Shifted to the distribution operation industry for a year before graduating
   • Was responsible for process analytics and process/productivity improvement
   • Developed labor cost models that guided pricing teams in pricing for variable costs
   • Managed fulfillment center productivity and helped improve efficiency to save cost

3. Industrial Engineer,Wayfair Hebron, KY

   • After completing undergrad I took a full time IE position becoming lead engineer for a fulfillment center in Hebron, KY
   • Responsible engineer for projecting and reporting building capacity using workforce/labor production data
   • modeled processes to quantify improvement priorities
   • Built operations tools using live SQL-fed data to balance the FC’s using current and forecasted department volumes to efficiently balance labor and processes across the FC

R Experience

My experience in R is still pretty rudimentary. I took Data Mining as an elective in undergrad and loved it, and picked up several of the concepts very quickly. I’ve since used it to do some more basic modeling in ‘Stat Methods’ and ‘Probability Models’ for the grad program in BANA.

My work experience, being one of the heavier users for SQL querying and VBA to model data at Wayfair, has helped me pick it up quick. I’ve also taken a year of ‘Engineering Models’ which I learned MATLAB coding logic.

Other Analytical Software

• SQL
  • Used this to join and query expansive transactional, product, employee data to help model our specific operational needs in distribution at Wayfair
• Excel (stretched it to its limit)
  • Built many analyses in here using SQL-embedding and OLE processes to create pivot table data cubes that would store labor data
  • Developed simple VBA processes into many sheets to help run models for supervisors on the floor to help them manage their work
• Some small experience in: MATLAB, RADAR, SAS

Family, Facts and Hobbies

• Currently live in Fairfield, OH

• I lived in Toronto, Canada for 2 yrs. in middle school

• Girlfriend and I own two retired-racing Greyhounds who were litter-mates from the track

• I am a recreational curler for the Cincinnati Curling Club!