Amir Zeltzer

Howdy, my name is Amir Zeltzer, and my passion lies in data-driven decision making. This development began when I discovered the world of statistics within sports. When I was 4 or 5 years old, I would watch Dallas Mavericks games while writing on a huge whiteboard probably twice my size, closely noting down every play and its result. I was fascinated by the ability of statistics like points or assists to measure complicated real-world events and make them as clear as numbers on a whiteboard.

This passion of quantifying the world led me to the world of software engineering, which resonated with me due to its similarities to a sports playbook: creating precise instructions to accomplish a goal. I developed an idea that combined my hobbies and the skills I had learned to build an Apple Watch app to look at my fantasy football scores and stats. I later utilized my Python coding experience during my internship at Amdocs, where I wrote and tested programs to process various document file types and finetuned LLM API prompts as part of a generative AI project designed to help hundreds of employees’ access and interpret documents within the company.

However, if I’ve learned one thing from sports it’s that the numbers themselves aren’t relevant without understanding the context around them. This philosophy of looking at the bigger picture and understanding the world through a systems-driven view drove me to earn an Industrial Engineering degree, where technical skills like coding or statistics are used to understand and optimize the world around us. I demonstrated these principles during my capstone project, where I turned a process flow chart into specific code functions that I developed as part of our team’s VBA-based program to automate a timesheet entry process that ended up saving our sponsor 8 hours every week.

These experiences inspired me to go for my MBA, as coding skills or a systems-driven understanding of engineering are amplified when you can communicate these ideas effectively and understand their financial, marketing, and operational implications. This is the skillset and mentality that I can bring, and I know I can contribute significantly to help your team win.