Alex Ackroyd has been living and working in the Bay Area for 15 years. She graduated from UCSB with a Bachelors of Science in Statistics in 2012. Since then, she spent year and a half dabbling in the startup scene designing mobile apps and founding a non-profit in San Francisco and Palo Alto. She developed a passionate interest in LEAN process improvement, so she found a role that had aspects of business excellence and advanced analytics as a Materials Analyst at Flex. Growing at Flex she joined the Analytics Enablement group in Flex IT, where she provided strategic and technical insight, design, development, training, and infrastructure to support analytics needs across all corporate functional groups and structural levels. Getting antsy in the IT ivory tower, she left Flex to join Lam Research in August 2017 as an Industrial Engineer/Data Scientist in the volume manufacturing division.

Alex is currently a student in the UC Berkeley Master of Engineering evening program at the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, studying Industrial Engineering and Operations Research.

Outside of work, Alex has a passionate love for the outdoors, travel, and dance. Her favorite places are high alpine meadows and art museums, and she spends her free time dancing the night away in salsa clubs.

Travel Badges:

• Everglades, Florda, USA – 1999
• Key West, Florida, USA – 2000 – First Time Snorkeling
• Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California, USA – 2005 – First Camping Trip
• Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA – 2008
• University of Delhi, Faculty of Mathematics, Statistics and Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, India – 2011 – Studied Abroad for 6 months
• Gosaikunda Lakes, Nepal (4380 meters) – 2012 – Trekking
• Kerala Backwaters, India – 2012
• Hạ Long Bay, Vietnam – 2012 – Deep Water Solo Climbing
• Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (5895 meters) – 2013 – Summited in 9 hours
• Zanzibar, Tanzania – 2013 – Snorkeling
• South Fork American River, California, USA – 2013 – Whitewater Rafting
• Great Wall of China, near Beijing, China – 2014
• Santa Cruz Island, California, USA – 2014 – Ocean Kayaking & Camping
• The Cuillin, Isle of Skye, Scotland – 2014
• Ben Nevis, Scotland (1344 meters) – 2014 – Highest Point in UK
• New Zealand beat South Africa by 4 wickets, Semi-Final 2015 Cricket World Cup in Eden Park, Auckland
• Tongariro Alpine Crossing, summiting Mount Ngauruhoe (2287 meters), New Zealand – 2015 – stand-in for Mount Doom in LOTR movies
• Presidential Traverse, summiting Mount Washington (1917 meters), New Hampshire, USA – 2015 – Highest Northeastern US Peak

Countries Visited:

India (2011, 2012, 2015, 2016), Nepal (2011, 2012), Thailand (2011, 2012), Laos (2012), Vietnam (2012), Cambodia (2012), Taiwan (2012), Tanzania (2013), China (2014), Scotland (2014, 2015, 2016), England (2015, 2016), Australia (2015), New Zealand (2015), Germany (2015), Hungary (2015), Ireland (2015), Hong Kong (2016)

 

Alex shares two beautiful dogs with her family, and is in love with an experimentalist.