About Ernest Tavares

I am an aspiring data scientist with a passion for technology startups—I hope to one day found an AI/Machine Learning venture in Silicon Valley.

Currently I work at SocialCode as an Advertising Manager but prior to that I was a student at UPenn where I became the first person in my family to earn a college degree (B.S. in Economics) with a triple concentration in Analytics, Marketing and Entrepreneurship from The Wharton School.

I never considered myself a "quant" but during my time at Penn I challenged myself by taking as many statistics classes as my major would allow and fell in love with the subject. I also interned at 3 Philadelphia startups and DreamIt Ventures before co-founding a startup incubator,WeissLabs during my final year.

My first exposure to coding was R but currently I'm learning Python.

Email: hi@ernesttavares.co
Twitter: @etav

Resumé

Education

B.S., Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. 2016
- Triple concentration in analytics, marketing and entrepreneurship, philosophy (minor)

Experience

Associate Advertising Manager, SocialCode, 2015 - Present
- Managing daily optimization and execution across all aspects of social advertising campaigns, ensuring client goals are met in a timely and efficient manner.
Co-Founder, WeissLabs, 2015 - 2016
- Responsible for all aspects of forming an student-run organization including:
  - Initial team formation
  - Sourcing student-run startups
  - Developing a 7-week entrepreneurship curriculum
  - Connecting startups with investors
Business Analyst Intern, Leadnomics, 2014 - 2016
- Leveraged operational data to create reports to inform business strategy.
- Inventoried machine learning software (such as: Google Tensorflow, vowpal wabbit, sci-kit learn) to evaluate accuracy and usability.
Strategic Investment Intern, DreamIt Ventures, 2015 - 2015
- Identified and contacted venture capitalist and angel investors who had a history of investing in early-stage healthcare startups.