Jessica Gorzo
Data Scientist
Villas, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolJessica Gorzo is a data scientist with nine years of experience applying computational methods to ecological and wildlife questions, currently integrating advanced analytics with ornithology at Cellular Tracking Technologies. She holds a Ph.D. in Wildlife Biology and has a strong research background modeling climatic and anthropogenic drivers of wetlands and species distributions from roles at NRRI, SILVIS Lab, and cooperative research units. Jessica combines field experience and telemetry knowledge with statistical and computational skills to turn movement and environmental data into actionable conservation insights. Based in Villas, New Jersey, she brings a rare blend of rigorous academic training and product-focused data work in the private sector. A self-described bird nerd and active practitioner, she leverages domain expertise to ask biologically meaningful questions that improve animal-tracking products. Colleagues rely on her ability to bridge field ecology, reproducible analysis, and practical deployment of data-driven solutions.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Wildlife Biology, Master’s Degree, Wildlife Biology at Clemson UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Wildlife Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Wildlife Biology at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor’s Degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor’s Degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Virginia Tech
English
Stackoverflow
405reputation
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2answers
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Github Skills (45)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cellular-tracking-technologies/celltracktech
Oct 2022 - Sep 2024
R package for working with Cellular Tracking Technologies data
Contributions:2 releases, 153 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
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cellular-tracking-technologies/data_tools
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Tools for managing, formatting, coalescing and exporting data from our products, including creating subsets!
Contributions:177 commits, 2 PRs, 163 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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