Jerry Yurchisin holds a BS in Education and an MS in Mathematics from Ohio University, and an MS in Operations Research and Statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has more than ten years of experience applying operations research, machine learning, statistics, and data visualization to improve decision-making. Before joining Gurobi, he was a Senior Consultant at OnLocation, customizing linear programming models within the National Energy Modeling System. Previously, he spent over seven years at Booz Allen Hamilton as an Operations Research Analyst and Data Scientist, building scheduling and staffing integer programming models for the US Coast Guard and serving as technical lead on several Coast Guard studies.