Felix Thorn
Head Of Analytics And Business Process Improvement at Oxfam Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolFelix Thorn is a data and analytics leader with eight years’ experience building analytics teams, data warehouses and decision-focused insights across government, non-profit and product organisations. Currently Head of Analytics and Business Process Improvement at Oxfam Australia, he drives the organisation’s data strategy, embeds project management discipline, and translates advanced analytics and ML into actionable fundraising and supporter segmentation recommendations. His background spans hands-on data engineering (Snowflake, dbt, AWS), experimentation and metric design from product roles at Canva, and automated reporting and dashboarding in both public sector and consultancy settings. Felix holds a PhD in applied statistics for behavioural research, which underpins his strength in turning complex statistical methods into clear advice for senior executives and boards. He’s notable for bridging rigorous academic research practices with pragmatic production analytics—automating workflows and refocusing analytics toward strategic, operational impact.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityThe University of Melbourne
Github Skills (16)
unconf10
r-package9
spellchecker7
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cran7
latent-dirichlet-allocation7
statistics6
census6
tuple6
r-programming5
nlp4
python4
hypothesis-testing4
data-analysis3
ropensci1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fsingletonthorn/effectSizeAdjustment
Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
An analysis of the difference between effect sizes in original and replication studies
Contributions:2 PRs, 126 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
difference-betweeneffect-sizesbioinformaticsreplicationsizes
fsingletonthorn/EffectSizeScraping
Sep 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:268 pushes, 2 branches, 57 comments in 1 year 11 months
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