I am an analytics platform engineer with diverse enterprise experiences in big data, municipal finance, natural language processing, and intuitive user interface design.
Manages cloud-based absence plan configurations, audits and updates data through SQL-based ETL, supports automation for multiple departments internationally with Visual Basic programs and SQL scripts, performs regression testing in upcoming environments, generates functional and technical specification documents, and services hotel absence and human resource inquiries for more than 30,000 worldwide employees.
My applications and SQL scripts have saved Hilton's Absence Management Team and other international departments a total of 7 (8.75% increase to team productivity) hours per week and 15 hours per month (9.4% increase to team productivity).
Worked with administration officials to document, analyze, define, and automate their tuition management process. In order to coordinate the inflows and outflows of government and private financial assistance, the admissions team was managing millions of records to balance their books. As a Visual Basic for Applications developer, I worked with senior management to create the requirements and fulfill a fully automated and 100% accurate analytics process.
The final VBA product reduced the time investment from 6 hours weekly to 5 minutes (15% increase to team productivity).
As Bass River Advisor's longest contract employee, I have helped build the administrative infrastructure of the business (including style guides, product branding, and operations), created thousands of reports (written hundreds of thousands of words), supported the analytics of hundreds of projects, and developed more than 50 products.
I have been the lead data engineer for multi-million dollar municipal infrastructure projects including: (1) budget recommendations for a multi-station waste services division, (2) a preventative maintenance budget analysis for a 3,500 unit municipal fleet, (3) the feasibility analysis and economic impact study of a $40 million award-winning multi-modal bridge renovation, (4) budget recommendations for a $55 million municipal sewer management system, (5) a transition management service for a county administration leadership change.
I also provide website design, hosting, and other internet-based IT support.
Worked with customer to match marketing budget parameters with objectives and design their first Google Ads campaign. After launch, I worked with the client to manage Key Performance Indicators like Cost-per-click, Click-through-rate, and return on investment.
Delivered rich reports to summarize performance and provide recommendations to optimize their campaign.
Leads from Google Ads increased customer contact by 15% monthly.
GPA: 3.99
Before being introduced to data technology, I earned a living as a professional musician/teacher and freelance writer. I have played hundreds of gigs in plenty of styles; but these days I am mostly interested in classical style. Egberto Gismonti.
I have been my own car mechanic since I was 16 and I've been told this disassemble <-> reassemble instinct was present at an early age. My favorite activity is sailing--I own a small and lovely Thistle. I have dabbled in electronics and am intent on revisiting chemistry which was my favorite subject in college.
I am applying much of what I have learned about finance to analyzing equities and real estate investments. I am studying for my Series 65.