A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but to think what no one else has ever said ~ Amos Tversky

Bio

Chris is the Manager of Data Analysis and Data Privacy at TechSmith, the makers of great software like Snagit and Camtasia. At TechSmith he works with stakeholders across the company on analytics and data science projects like building summary reports in Power BI, creating ETL processes to collect data via a vendor API, developing an R Shiny app that forecasts license activations, and survey analysis.

Chris is the author of several R packages hosted on CRAN:

Chris lives in East Lansing, MI with his wife and four young children.

Education

Central Michigan University | MA, Economics | Aug 2010 - May 2012

Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | BS, Business Administration & Minor, Anthropology | Aug 2002 - May 2006

Career

TechSmith | Manager of Data Analysis and Data Privacy | Dec 2019 - Present

Consumers Energy | Data Scientist | Oct 2018 - Dec 2019

Jackson National Life | Sr Operations Data Analyst | Mar 2012 - Sept 2018

Kellogg’s | Intern, Sales Analytics | May 2011 - Mar 2012

Chris Umphlett


A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but to think what no one else has ever said ~ Amos Tversky

Bio

Chris is the Manager of Data Analysis and Data Privacy at TechSmith, the makers of great software like Snagit and Camtasia. At TechSmith he works with stakeholders across the company on analytics and data science projects like building summary reports in Power BI, creating ETL processes to collect data via a vendor API, developing an R Shiny app that forecasts license activations, and survey analysis.

Chris is the author of several R packages hosted on CRAN:

Chris lives in East Lansing, MI with his wife and four young children.

Education

Central Michigan University | MA, Economics | Aug 2010 - May 2012

Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | BS, Business Administration & Minor, Anthropology | Aug 2002 - May 2006

Career

TechSmith | Manager of Data Analysis and Data Privacy | Dec 2019 - Present

Consumers Energy | Data Scientist | Oct 2018 - Dec 2019

Jackson National Life | Sr Operations Data Analyst | Mar 2012 - Sept 2018

Kellogg’s | Intern, Sales Analytics | May 2011 - Mar 2012