Business Intelligence Analyst
Zaq facilitates data collection, management, analysis, and reporting processes as part of the Center for Entrepreneurship team and the NSF Great Lakes Regional I-Corps Hub. He works collaboratively with the CFE team to gather data, maintain the CRM systems, perform data analyses, and provide support to meet the team’s data analytics and reporting needs. Zaq is passionate about providing stakeholders with intelligence to assist data-informed decision-making.
Zaq’s educational background is in institutional research, data analytics, and history. Zaq holds a Graduate Certificate in Institutional Research from Penn State University, Master of Science in Data Analytics from Davenport University, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Spring Arbor University.
Zaq joined the CFE team in 2022. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, Zaq was the Retention Data Analyst at Washtenaw Community College. He has worked in various roles in higher education from private liberal arts colleges to public universities for over ten years.
To contact Zaq, email zaqm@umich.edu