Pivoting to Careers in Technology and Data Analytics

Subtitle: 
Global Career Week: Technology & Data
Activity Type: 
Presentation
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Presenter: 
Various
Date: 
Wednesday, March 30, 2022 - 12:00 to 13:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Zoom
Contact Person: 
Elaine Linn
Contact Email: 
eel58@pitt.edu

Whether it be the development of a new app, advocating for new health care policies, creating accessible transportation, or building defense systems, all major projects require a form of data collection and interpretation. The collection and analyzation of data plays an ever-increasing critical role in our society. Speakers, including several alums from the social sciences, will share their career path to the fields of technology and data.

Learn from Social Science majors turned tech and data analytics professionals. Jeff Nelson BS, BPHIL ’13 works for Google in Los Angeles as an Enterprise Customer Engineer and in Data Analytics. Jordan Iserson '20 is a product analyst at Citymapper based in London. Jordan manages the tech stack that builds detailed, reliable mobility data for Citymapper's business and consumer products. Eric ’12, ’17 MPH, works as a data analyst in the people analytics space at Atlassian, an enterprise software-as-a-service (SAAS) company.

UCIS Unit: 
Asian Studies Center
Center for African Studies
Center for Latin American Studies
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Global Studies Center
Is Event Already in University Calendar?: 
No
Pitt Undergrads: 
3
Pitt Grad Students: 
3