Daniel Stiefvater

MSc in Analytics & Data Scientist

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

About

Experience

  • Data Scientist at Burns & McDonnell
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    R&D on AI solutions

  • Alberta Health Services (16 yrs 2 mos)
    • Demand Planner
      Aug 2022 - Jul 2025 · 3 yrs

      •Mentored newer staff on best practices, guiding them through the nuances of unprecedented issues such as dealing with recalls or how to properly ship returns across international borders. •Daily meetings on shipping issues and constraints with executive leadership. •Reduced portfolio’s invoice holds from 3 million dollars to under 400,000 dollars in a span of 8 months. •Strong rapport with site services and end users, providing quick and detailed information on supplies issues that could be affecting surgeries or day to day activities. •Meetings with vendors to address current and future supply issues of certain product lines, which has reduced supply issues by 20 percent since the height of COVID.

    • Business Analyst
      Nov 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Connect Care Clinical Operations •Built end to end data pipelines taking raw data from SQL servers, transforming it in python and presenting analysis on Tableau. These processes were fully automated and updated daily. •Forecasted projections of approximately 9,000 Student for 2024 utilizing ARIMA machine learning in python. •Performed Ad-hoc analysis utilizing SQL, Python, Tableau and Excel to provide requested information to leadership/staff. •Helped maintain and build on to python scripts that automated upwards of 2,000 daily user requests for processing. This included troubleshooting, debugging and working with fellow analysts to improve and build on functionality of scripts. •Worked with team members to develop automation scripts that provided zoom links to all learners and updating scripts to assign learners to training environments.

    • Procurement Specialist
      Jun 2019 - Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

      • Utilized SQL (Power Query) and Excel pivot tables to generate daily overdue shipment reports, saving over a 100 hours of work a year getting the report manually. •Setup VBA macros to automate tasks such as entering fields or cleaning data tables for optimal usage, reducing work flow by 25 percent. •Curated outgoing shipments for repairs, keeping total process of shipping and receiving of repaired equipment to under a month. •Automated personal invoice hold lists, vendor disruptions to analyze issues quickly and see day to day changes in my portfolio.

  • Land reclamation at Combat Spraying Ltd.
    May 2014 - Aug 2014 · 4 mos

    ● Performed drilling waste/soil management, remediation and reclamation duties such as analysis of soils, water and waste. ● Identified weeds and mixed appropriate chemicals to eliminate in identified areas. ● Worked with oil field workers reviewing proper safety practices between various work sites, ensuring the proper practices were in place for optimal safety performance. ● Worked independently for extended periods assessing and spraying reclaimed oil sites in Northern Alberta. ● Operated various field equipment including side-by-sides with spray equipment, an Argo, and worked with helicopter pilots spraying remote sites by Slave Lake, AB. ● Recorded data such as amount and type of chemicals utilized, wind direction, temperatures, and provided maps of each individual work site.