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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Analyst position supporting Enterprise Analytics & Data Science (EADS) team.
• Deliver analytics business intelligence solutions across diverse business teams.
• Partner with stakeholders on Tableau and Power BI dashboard development and enhancements.
• Perform peer review and testing of analytic solutions to adhere to company complianceprocesses.

Minneapolis, MN

• Analyst position supporting Supply Chain Field Operations.
• Supported analytics reporting using complex SQL queries and Target’s Greenfield visualizationsoftware to provide real-time insights into field operations processes and KPIs.
• Provided support and training to business customers, received recognition for working withcustomers to optimize bin item activity reporting view which resulted in quicker insights andreduction in theft of product.
• Improved efficiency and accuracy of manual Excel reports by utilizing APIs and R/Python withinTarget’s cloud-based tools to automate processes, reducing processing time from hours tominutes.
• Completed rotation with data science team to drive insights in distribution center inbound days ofbacklog (DOB). Utilized R and linear regression to highlight and quantify key process variables toreduce DOB.
• Mentored, trained and supported onboarding of new analysts.

• Projects:
• College degrees that payback, story and interactive dashboard created in Tableau. Utilized multiple datasets to visualize impact of college degree choice on salary and career satisfaction.
• Analyzed bank marketing dataset to gain insights and make predictions on customer purchases using classification algorithms. Used synthetic minority over-sampling (SMOTE) to deal with problem of highly unbalanced.
• Healthcare predictive analytics utilizing Medicare Claims Synthetic Public Use Files (SynPUFs). Transformed, cleansed and aggregated patient beneficiary dataset containing over 6M+ records. Balanced dataset using.
• Team project to predict outpatients at risk for hospital admission due to chronic heart failure (CHF). Merged outpatient, inpatient and beneficiary datasets containing over 15M+ records, transformed data to aggregate.

Eden Prairie, MN

• Preparing master data for compliance with California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
• Use querying and excel skills to build data dictionary of company’s database.
• Develop deeper understanding of financial regulations by categorizing data.
• Coordinate with other members of compliance team to find solutions to roadblocks that arise.

Bloomington, MN

• Held engineering positions in Research & Development (R&D) group, developing latest generation of hard drive technology.
• Played key role in reducing R&D product hold time from over 25% to less than 10%, by applying statistical analysis and lean principles.
• Performed SQL queries and data analysis to investigate process issues and identify trends, improving product quality and metrics.
• Efficiently wrote guidelines and specifications for technical and non-technical audience.
• Built strong working relationships and led daily production meetings with off-shift teams, facilitating communication and reporting between teams.

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Science, Gpa: 3.92/4.0

Materials Science Engineering, Chemistry Minor

Full Stack Software Engineering Certification, Computer Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: Toastmasters