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Work Experience

• Senior Data Analyst, 

  Apr, 2020 - Dec, 20211 year 8 months

  • Senior member on project to design and implement data evaluation methodology responsible for guiding $7M/year in data buying decisions

  • Responsible for maintaining and improving Ekata’s data quality process to ensure products were consistently backed by accurate data

  • Worked on data engineer tickets such as using Airflow to automate data loads

  • Led Scrum ceremonies (stand up, etc.) and managed Jira metrics for a team of seven

  • Mentored new team members on Ekata’s Graph schema and how to use Spark SQL

  • Created self-serve Databricks notebooks to teach Ekata’s schema and common Spark SQL idioms

• Data Analyst, 

  Jan, 2019 - Mar, 20201 year 3 months

  • Combined systems knowledge, SQL, and programming abilities to model the impact on downstream product performance based on changes to our data ingestion pipeline

  • Wrote a Jenkins integration to enable version control on Databricks notebooks

  • Took the initiative to create a take-home interview assignment to test candidates on their analytical skills, presentation abilities, and creativity

• Solutions Architect, 

  Nov, 2017 - Dec, 20181 year 2 months

  • Created tailored API recommendations for customers to demonstrate positive ROI by decreasing e-commerce fraud and increasing approval rates

  • Introduced Jupyter notebooks to the team as a replacement to Excel. This enabled rapid scaling of team output through code automation. It also paved the way for moving beyond rules-based recommendations to machine learning solutions and resulted in closing deals with increasingly sophisticated customers

  • Automated work by developing a Python module of analytical tools for the team

• Business Analyst, 

  May, 2015 - Oct, 20172 years 6 months

  • Project manager for a custom implementation of JD Edwards (Oracle), responsible for managing $300M/year in grant funding

  • Generated reports for budget analysts using SQL and UW’s Enterprise Data Warehouse

• Business Analyst / Project Manager, 

  Oct, 2012 - Apr, 20152 years 7 months

  • PM of Nuclear energy customers for professional services projects for a crisis management platform

  • Lead Business Analyst for a $5M, multi-year project with the state of California that involved frequent onsite discovery sessions with business process modeling

• Sales Specialist, 

  Aug, 2010 - Sep, 20122 years

  • Supported sales team with contract management and billing inquiries

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