While our Data Science team makes a big deal out of big data, they aren’t the only ones digging their hands in the data here at Mendeley. Aside of setting and monitoring company KPIs and writing some critical reports, the Mendeley Analytics team primarily focuses on user behaviour. That means, they study how and why you use Mendeley to better inform how and why we grow different Mendeley products and features. The Analytics team works closely with nearly every team here at Mendeley, from technical teams, to Product teams, to our Community team. Without further ado, meet the Analytics team:
Gabriel Hughes PhD, VP Analytics
Until last year, Gabriel worked Head of Attribution at Google for 6 years, and has worked with data and analytics throughout his career. Follow him @gabehughes
1. How do you describe your role on the Analytics Team?
I’m responsible for user analytics across Mendeley and also Elsevier. My role is help guide the team and ensure they have the resources and support they need from the rest of the company, and manage relationships with the rest of Elsevier. We also work closely on defining company objectives for measuring how we better engage and grow our core users.
2. What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?
The commitment and focus of the Mendeley teams to improving the platform makes this a great place to work. The Analytics team are dedicated to supporting their colleagues, working hard to guide the rest of company with insights into how people use Mendeley. We use these insights to help product managers and engineers decide how best improve the user experience.
3. What do you enjoy doing in your free time?
I have two children and recently we have been exploring some of great new board and card games out there, like Forbidden Island, Loot and Braggart which are great fun to play and really stimulate the mind. One of great things about having kids is you can revisit all this cool stuff all over again.
Sebastian Pöhlmann, Insights & Analytics Manager
Seb is originally from Germany where he obtained a degree in Economics. An interest in development economics got him to spend a year in Norway studying System Dynamics modelling and on to work in Rome for an international agriculture research organisation. A year working on business development projects in Malawi brought back new enthusiasm about the (global!) potential of science and technology.
Returning to Europe, London provided a unique blend of opportunities and Mendeley the perfect place to work.
1. How do you describe your role on the Analytics Team?
Seb leads, grows and learns from the Analytics team. Often my day is “like a box of chocolate” : )
2. What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?
My colleagues. And the amazing learning opportunities.
3. What do you enjoy doing in your free time?
Family time out and about, traveling, reading.
Andi Rutherford, Data Engineer and Architect
Andi is one of the last of the original developers and architects of Mendeley –
designed & implemented API v.1, worked on the Desktop and iOS mobile
clients and Website, and did Operations and Systems Administration –
in a start-up environment you do everything! Most recently he’s been
building systems and weaving datasets via Hadoop technologies and
enabling Analytical technical function to produce strategically
significant reports. Andi also helps organise our monthly Hackdays.
Follow him @cogpie
1. How do you describe your role on the Analytics Team?
I currently provide the technical knowledge and data history to
support analysis, as well as look at future tools to help us further.
I help organise and process large datastores and act as resource for
for best practices to access and query the data for speed and quality.
My mathematics and data background helps as sounding board for the
results of analytical products.
2. What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?
I like the challenge, the people, the datasets and working with
them – but actually, the vision of what Mendeley will be sold the
project to me – its scope is breathtaking; now we just have to get
there!
3. What do you enjoy doing in your free time?
These days: home improvement! But usually: reading, reading,
reading; building things, ‘perfecting’ recipes, planning romantic
dates, dreaming about having a pet pig one day, as I just fulfilled my
other dream of a herb garden.
Dr Lili Tcheang, Research Data Analyst
Lili trained as a neuroscientist after completing an undergraduate degree in Physics. She hen had a spell in academia, looking at visuospatial processing in virtual reality environments, doing brain scanning and brain stimulation experiments. Basically messing with people’s heads. She finally came to the conclusion that she was am never going to collect as much data as she wanted in order to understand human behaviour and jumped into industry to try and make science better for my fellow scientists.
1. How do you describe your role on the Analytics Team?
I support product in assessing how well their products/projects are working. I also work on user behaviour, segmenting this and attempting to predict it, with the long term goal of understanding our users better.
2. What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?
Having the opportunity to be directly involved in a product that has the potential to change the way that we do science.
3. What do you enjoy doing in your free time?
In my spare time, I like to eat really good food, talk about really good food and travel to places with really good food. I daydream about which realistic scientific advances I would most like to see happen. I have passed the stage where I now marvel at technological advances in the way our parents did about phoning England from Australia. I also like to buy toys for myself on the pretext that they are educational for my daughter.
Jonathan Warner, Senior Data Engineer
This is Jonathan’s first week at Mendeley! Welcome Jonathan! Prior to starting here, he developed software at various companies doing display advertising, QR code tracking, affiliate marketing and securities lending.
1. How do you describe your role on the Analytics Team?
My role in the team is to take the clever ideas that the team members have, and make sure they are built in a clear, scalable and maintainable fashion.
2. What is your favourite part about working for Mendeley?
The atmosphere, the people and the problems we get to work on.
3. What do you enjoy doing in your free time?
I enjoy yoga, photography and watching American TV of decidedly variable quality.
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