Bennett Morris

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Head of Data at Alder Health · SQL, inventory optimisation

Alder Health
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
12+ years experience
Johns Hopkins University
English
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Overview

I lead demand forecasting at Alder Health in New York. Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week. Before that: Etsy and Starbucks. Most at home with Python and SQL. Amateur photographer; mostly street and food.

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Skills
Pythoninventory optimisationSparkProphetSQLrules enginestime series
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2 data analyst roles open on the forecasting team in New York

Role
Data analyst
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$177k-$223k
Team
Forecasting, 11 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Ownership of something end to end
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $174k-$248k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

New York, NY · remote OKtime seriesrules enginespython
Open

Experience

  1. Head of Data
    Dec 2025 - Present
    Alder Health · 10 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Cut forecast error from 26% to 6% across 2733 SKUs.
    • Replaced 90 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Taught SQL to 84 non-analysts.
  2. Director of Data Science
    Jun 2023 - Dec 2025
    Etsy · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Replaced 102 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  3. Staff Data Scientist
    Jun 2020 - Feb 2023
    Starbucks · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Reduced stock-outs by 17% in the first season.
  4. Senior Data Scientist
    Dec 2016 - Jun 2020
    Microsoft · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Cut forecast error from 20% to 6% across 3373 SKUs.
  5. Data Scientist
    Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
    HP · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Taught SQL to 162 non-analysts.
    • Reduced stock-outs by 15% in the first season.

Projects

Side project: a commute planner
2025

Built with Prophet and Python. 2655 people used it last year.

Open-source Prophet toolkit
2024

A small library for demand forecasting that 139 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Johns Hopkins University
    MS, Physics
    2008 - 2010
  2. University of Wisconsin–Madison
    BS, Physics
    2001 - 2005

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