charles_hildbold
analytics_engineer · moon_township, pa · available

I build the decision systems
behind the numbers.

15 years running professional sports organizations as President, GM, and VP. M.S. Data Analytics, 4.0 GPA. I turn raw data into the answer to the question someone is actually trying to ask.

CH · 2026 Charles Hildbold v1.0

I drove 158,940 miles and found a story in the data.

[01] Sample size 711,897 Statcast pitches analyzed
30 teams · full season
[02] Hitter validity +0.769 Correlation with wOBA
[03] Pitcher validity −0.807 Correlation with FIP
(starting pitchers)

An unusual path to analytics.

"I've sat in the seat of the person who has to use the dashboard. I know what gets opened twice a week and what gets forgotten. I build accordingly."

I spent 15 years running professional sports organizations — as President of the Texas Revolution, VP of Sales for the Lancaster Barnstormers, General Manager of the Richmond Revolution, and Director of Team Services for the Indoor Football League. I made staffing decisions, set pricing, ran P&Ls, negotiated contracts, and answered to ownership groups across six seasons of professional football, baseball, and league-level consulting.

The whole time, I was building spreadsheets and dashboards to figure out what was actually working. In 2023 I went back to school to formalize what I'd been doing instinctively for over a decade. I earned my M.S. in Data Analytics from Robert Morris University in December 2024 with a 4.0 GPA.

The result is a rare combination: domain experience from inside the businesses I now build tools for, paired with the statistical and engineering training to do it rigorously.

15 Years in pro sports
4.0 M.S. GPA
Franchise of the Year
League awards

Two careers, one throughline.

Analytics 2023 — Present
2023 — Present
Independent Analytics Developer
Self-employed · Remote
Built UVI, a live MLB analytics platform processing 711,897 pitches across all 30 teams (r = +0.769 vs wOBA, −0.807 vs FIP). Built an MLB Season Win Total Predictor (Random Forest, MAE 3.41) deployed as R Shiny. Built a forensic rideshare earnings analysis reconciling 415,000+ records across four platforms.
2020 — Present
Strategic Operations & Logistics
Uber · Coraopolis, PA
Self-directed data tracking of earnings, trip volume, and performance metrics to optimize daily productivity. Generated the multi-year dataset that became the rideshare case study.
Sports Operations 2009 — 2020
Jan — Mar 2020
Vice President of Sales
Lancaster Barnstormers · Lancaster, PA
Led professional baseball ticket sales team; doubled outbound sales volume within two months. Spearheaded implementation of a new data collection and reporting system providing executive-level visibility into sales trends and revenue forecasting.
Aug 2012 — May 2018
President
Texas Revolution · Frisco, TX
Directed all day-to-day business operations for a professional indoor football organization across six seasons. Achieved 90% season-ticket holder retention and consistent year-over-year revenue and attendance growth. Sourced and secured major corporate partnerships across all revenue-generating departments.
Executive of the Year (2016) · Franchise of the Year (2016) · Game Operations of the Year (2016, 2017, 2018)
Aug 2011 — Mar 2012
Director of Team Services
Indoor Football League · Richmond, VA
Directed operations consulting for a 22-team league. Advised member teams on hiring, ticket sales, and operational efficiency. Conducted a league-wide data analysis benchmarking each team's business structure, productivity, and financial performance.
Aug 2009 — Aug 2011
General Manager
Richmond Revolution · Richmond, VA
Orchestrated the full-scale launch of a new professional football organization. Achieved profitability in the inaugural season. Filled 60% of arena capacity via pre-season sales and reached 103% total capacity with eight consecutive home sell-outs.
Franchise of the Year (2010) · Media Relations of the Year (2010)
Earlier roles
VP of Operations · Director of Marketing · Box Office Manager · Account Executive
Allen Wranglers · Odessa Roughnecks · Columbus Catfish · Pensacola Ice Pilots · Pittsburgh Pirates
Progressive operational and sales leadership across professional football, baseball, and hockey organizations.

Formal training meets field experience.

Education
M.S. Data Analytics
Robert Morris University · 2024GPA 4.0
M.S. Sports Management
Liberty UniversityGPA 3.89
B.S. Marketing Management
Grove City College
Certifications
Google Data Analytics · Google Ads · Google Generative AI Intensive
Toolbelt
languages
Python, R, SQL
visualization
Tableau, Power BI, Streamlit, Plotly, Shiny
data
Pandas, Statcast API, randomForest
infra
GitHub, Streamlit Cloud, Tableau Public
domain
Sports operations, sabermetrics, P&L, sales analytics

Three ways to work together.

Have data and need someone who can turn it into something useful?

Book a 15-minute call. We'll figure out together whether this is a fit, and if it isn't, I'll tell you.