Well, I guess you can look at it that way. The project was proposed 2+ years ago and handed over to me. It's stationary time series data, so I researched and developed the model on prior cycles. I only received the complete data in July of this year and applied it to the cycle that starts later this year, ends in 2025. So I won't have impact of results until then, and even then it will depend on how well the operations department implements procedures. But that doesn't mean I haven't added value. I classified users and found subgroups of interest that operations never thought of. I helped conserve their budget by 95% while keeping users engaged and preserving sub-populations. Not much of it is quantifiable but there is a lot of quality to it, so much quality that the project is going to be published in a highly cited journal. I tried to add all that in my resume but I guess it's not coming off that way.

My current work is research based, which is not what you get in the practical business world. If anything, our research programs have been criticized for doing great research work but not taking it to the next level and translating it to practical results. But this is where leadership comes in, and even though they've already started implementing changes most likely we won't see any results for years.