Daniel Galper

Experience

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  Sportzed

  Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

  Co-founder, Chief Financial Officer, and Coach

  • Founded a socially distanced, in-person sports camp and training service available to children of all ages.• Connected local high-school varsity athletes with younger athletes to facilitate personal mentorship and skill development in their specific sport. • Conducted 10 successful weeks of camp and training for 75 different children with over 25 different counselors and trainers across five different sports.• Managed and oversaw the flow of all client and employee payments.• Donated 10% of all income to Camp Ramah in New England, my childhood sleep-away camp which was struggling financially due to COVID-19. Show less

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  Camp Ramah in New England (Palmer)

  Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  Senior Counselor

  • Shouldered increased programming and leadership role within my bunk of 18 rising 10th-grade campers, in addition to a larger age group of 80 campers.• Planned fun, engaging, and inclusive programming that every camper was able to participate in and enjoy, regardless of their interests.• Guided campers through increased stress levels due to the presence of COVID-19 and improvised exciting activities within COVID-19 guidelines

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  Reach Consulting Group

  Oct 2022 - now

  Project Manager, Data Analyst

  • Managed a team of five data analysts and ensured that clients were satisfied with our service.• Worked with a client who had created a board game that simulates the NCAA March Madness Tournament and validated that their simulations matched the results of the actual event• Developed betting odds based on the probabilities provided by the client’s simulation

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  ShotQuality

  Dec 2022 - now

  Data Science Intern

  • Developed a Regularized Adjusted Plus-Minus model for college basketball capable of isolating player impact on team performance used to predict future player performance and game outcomes.• Revolutionized social media content by developing Shiny Apps capable of easily creating graphics and grabbing data from our database which could be efficiently made into content.• Created data visualizations that harnessed ShotQuality’s unique data to communicate analysis to clients and fans on social media. Show less

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  PFF

  Aug 2023 - now

  NFL Analyst

  • Appeared on a weekly NFL podcast analyzing game results and forecasting future performance. • Currently contributing to PFF’s content team in the form of weekly articles where I share my data-driven betting predictions for the NFL.

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  University of Michigan Men's Soccer

  Sept 2023 - now

  Data Analytics Intern

  • Supplied the coaching staff with detailed postgame reports breaking down the team’s overall performance using advanced analytics such as expected goals through the use of data visualization.• Summarized the season with a comprehensive final project analyzing team strengths and weaknesses.