Sammamish, Washington, United States
Data Scientist with experience in the education, technology, and finance sectors. Data-driven communication expert focused on quality decision making. Strong history of leadership both with and without inherent authority. An enthusiastic learner dedicated to continual advancement of self and company.
• Provided reports on district success metrics to the school board for evaluation of district health and strategy planning for the year going forward. • Created dashboards in Power BI for central office leadership, principals, and teachers, including ETL, data modeling, and dashboard design, to allow for both long-term goal setting and short-term interventions with students. • Became the data team lead on qualitative data analysis and provided best practice consultation all projects using qualitative analysis or mixed methods. • Worked with stakeholders to continually iterate on products to best meet their needs. • Maintained and leveraged an Ed-Fi Azure database through a student information system API and transformed that data into key insights for cross functional teams. • Created and automated district Covid tracking system and consulted with public health on analytic thresholds for the East King County area • Developed a data warehousing and reporting process to overhaul the Highly Capable student tracking system with a focus on data governance and decreasing false data being sent to families
• Participated in a two-year fellowship as part of this Center for Education Policy Research initiative at Harvard University. • Partnered with Education Data leaders to bring change to districts, education-focused private companies, and non-profit organizations across the nation. • Built skills in R, Stata, Python, statistics, and qualitative research methods. • Developed presentations based on analytics for quality decision making, the humanization of data, and the use of data to tell a story.
• Prepared reporting and analysis to tell data stories and recommend actionable strategies to senior leaders including the Wells Fargo CFO and CEO, and government regulators. • Utilized SAS Enterprise Guide and Toad for Oracle (SQL) to discover, validate, and derive insights from the Wells Fargo enterprise data warehouse and identify all customers whom had been harmed by errors in practice or policy. • Managed projects that brought together the Finance Department, Line of Business, Project Leads, Legal Team, and Technical Data team; developing functional and technical requirements that were responsive to the feedback of all stakeholders. • Developed portions of the Confluence Knowledge Base and trained new hires. • Consulted on, piloted, and evaluated business process changes for efficiency. • Consistently created documentation that was understandable by all parties and passed all quality checks on the first attempt. • Collaborated with remote, cross-functional teams to build project strategy and develop appropriate timelines • Quickly became a subject matter expert and resource on multiple new projects and processes
•Demonstrated and taught strategic thinking and adaptation of communication to diverse audiences: students placed in the state tournament and qualified to nationals every year. •Applied an Agile framework with varsity competitors and a Waterfall approach with novice competitors to maximize student achievement. •Tracked and reported on areas of needed improvement, progress, and student goals through Excel, TFS agile tools, and video broadcast software. •Performed heavy research tasks to ensure in-depth knowledge of subject matter. •Motivated students to work beyond requirements by negotiating win-win propositions between student interest and needed outcomes.
• Consistently provided equitable instruction throughout the district in three buildings with differing managers and resources • Increased in-building and cross-building communication through collaboration with team members and coordination of on going projects
Contract through Insight Global • Researched, contacted, and managed relationships with unrepresented artists to secure rights for Amazon Music • Provided quality assurance for machine learning outputs which resulted in goals being exceeded for both precision and recall • Verified, modified, and cataloged songwriter data for use by machine learning models • Modified SQL queries to ensure inclusion of atypical results and provide thorough answers to business problems • Coached new team members on best practices and acted as a consultant for difficult tasks