Charlie Sandson

Industrial and Management Engineering
2021

Alumni Update: Charlie is now a Decision Analytics Associate as ZS (where he also completed an internship while at RPI) in Boston, MA.

Hometown: Baltimore, MD

Off- Campus Experience

Arch Internship at ZS Associates: Worked at a Boston consulting firm focusing on the medical and pharmaceutical sectors. As a Decision Analytics Intern, I worked on projects that had to do with sales force sizing, co-promote strategy, product development and go-to-launch, and market research.

On-Campus Experience

Athletics: Part of the Varsity Men's Soccer team. Highlights include: winning the Liberty League regular season title, and reaching the Elite 8 of the NCAA tournament. We finished that season ranked #7 in the national poll, having been as high as #4 in the nation.

Sole Survivors: Part of a club dedicated to raising funding and awareness for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.

Admissions Ambassador: Gave tours to prospective students and served as a panelist at events.

Favorite Class

My favorite class has been Intro to Management! The class is taught completely through case studies - you must analyze businesses, then present your opinion and defend it against questions from the professor and your classmates. It's by far the class which most closely resembles my industry experience so far, even more than Capstone. The final project required us to analyze Netflix's entire business model and, with a team, present an international expansion strategy to help them maintain the growth rate of their company.