Summary
Hayes Cozart is a data-driven analytics leader with a decade of experience helping media, marketing, and advertising clients optimize spend through predictive modeling, scenario planning, and actionable visualizations. As Director of Advanced Analytics at Mindshare, he leads the Data Engineering Synapse team, building tools like "Metrics that Matter," a DataRobot-powered Synapse redesign, and a scenario planner that tightens MMM forecasting risk to within 5%. He blends hands-on technical skills (Python, SQL, R, cloud platforms) with product-focused R&D to scale solutions for CPG, pharma, insurance, automotive, and retail clients. Known for translating complex multichannel attribution and saturation-curve models into clear dashboards and client-ready recommendations, he often surfaces non-obvious metric-KPI correlations that shift campaign priorities in real time.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology at The College of William and Mary