Summary
Charlie Cao is a Senior Data Analyst with six years of experience helping technology and entertainment companies turn data into faster, better decisions. Based in Greater Vancouver, he progressed from data analyst roles to senior analytics at Electronic Arts after building cross-functional BI capabilities at Best Buy Canada that drove improvements in assortment, pricing, and fulfillment. Trained at UBC Sauder with hands-on experience creating open-source analytics learning materials, he blends statistical methods and practical engineering—prototyping clustering, conjoint analysis, forecasting, Monte Carlo and discrete-event simulations. Charlie pairs product-minded analysis (customer journey, survey text mining) with stakeholder-facing storytelling, enabling teams to act on insights rather than just report them. He’s comfortable across the analytics stack—Python, Jupyter, GitHub collaboration and visualization—and brings a retail-to-games perspective that helps uncover non-obvious levers for growth and engagement.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Master, Business Analytics, Master, Business Analytics at UBC Sauder School of Business
Bachelor, Apparel and Textile Manufacture, Bachelor, Apparel and Textile Manufacture at University of Minnesota College of Design
The University of British Columbia
English, Chinese