Grant Culbertson

Greater Chicago Area

Work Experience

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL
Investment Operations Analyst9/2026 – Present

    Surefoot

    Remote
    Data Analyst10/2025 – 3/2026
    • Led end-to-end A/B test preparation, monitoring, and results analysis across multiple client accounts, delivering data-driven recommendations.
    • Solely responsible for implementation and maintenance of 25+ company-wide process automations through N8N, streamlining internal workflows.
    • Built a custom internal reporting system for test monitoring and automated client reporting, replacing paid tools.
    • Identified gaps and automated numerous data quality checks, improving reliability of A/B test data reporting pipelines.
    • Worked as the sole analyst at the company while performing this role.
    Data Specialist8/2024 – 10/2025
    • Brought on full-time following graduation from Kenyon College in May 2025.
    Data Analyst Intern5/2024 – 8/2024
    • Independently developed and presented a custom Looker dashboard with a Shopify data pipeline to a $30M+ annual revenue client.
    • Optimized preexisting BigQuery data pulls to reduce automated daily query sizes by 70%.

    Transamerica Agency Network

    Columbus, OH
    Life Insurance Agent5/2023 – 8/2023
    • Earned an Ohio resident insurance producer license (Major Lines: Life, Accident & Health), passing the exam on the first attempt.
    • Conducted prospecting outreach by phone and direct mail, and handled day-to-day client service requests, including difficult or escalated conversations.
    • Owned the bulk of client meeting prep: quotes across a range of coverage amounts and policy types, plus multi-year cost projections comparing plan options.
    • Co-facilitated client meetings in person and by phone alongside the advisor.

    United Parcel Service

    Columbus, OH
    Loader6/2022 – 8/2022
    • Handled 1,000+ packages per day with precise attention to detail.
    • Learned to communicate with and be a part of a fast-moving, high-performance team.
    • Followed company guidelines and performed with an extremely low error rate.

    Education

    Kenyon College

    Gambier, OH

    May 2025

    Bachelor of Arts, Economics with Distinction, Cum Laude

    Minors in Statistics & Scientific Computing · GPA: 3.61

    ResearchNBA Predictive Shot Modeling, “Hub Bucks” Earning Simulator, Incentivized Studying Research Proposal, Kenyon Car Connect.
    CourseworkIntermediate Micro/Macroeconomics, Behavioral Public Policy, Econometrics, Statistical Computing in R, Sports Statistics, Software Development & Design.
    Study AbroadCopenhagen, Denmark at DIS — Fall 2023. Courses: Globalization and European Economies, Urban Economics, Danish.

    Awards

    Wendell D. Lindstrom Memorial Prize

    Kenyon College

    Awarded to outstanding math and statistics students — 1 of 3 students selected campus-wide.

    Distinction on the Senior Economics Exercise

    Kenyon College, Department of Economics

    Awarded distinction on a two-sitting exam covering the full economics curriculum — 1 of 5 out of approximately 40 senior economics majors.

    Skills

    Languages

    PythonRSQLHTMLJavaScriptC++

    Tools

    Google Looker StudioBigQueryShopifyExcelGoogle AnalyticsClickUpN8NClaudeChatGPTClaude CodeClaude CoworkCursorGithubRstudio

    Methods

    Statistical ModelingEconometricsCROA/B TestingData AnalysisCritical Thinking