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Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

My accomplishments as a Senior Analyst include the following:- Spearheaded the development of new reporting capabilities for the Cost Finance team, leveraging Google BigQuery and Tableau to maximize cost-out potential.- Collaborated with the Supply Chain team to deploy local delivery expense prediction models using BQML random forest algorithms, allowing for timely Sales Rep compensation with 85% accuracy.- Automated the parsing of public company transcripts using an NLP model and sentiment analysis, saving over 50 hours of manual work each quarter. - Re-engineered a key data pipeline to automate preprocessing and develop new guardrails for data integrity, eliminating 30K outdated BOMs.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

As a Data Reporting Analyst, I was responsible for the following:- Partnered with Sales leadership to understand business needs and promote data-driven decision making.- Created a net-new suite of reporting for Merchandising teams to address need for campaign tracking.- Rebuilt key Tableau dashboards to track combined HDS and HDPro KPIs, enabling real-time analysis.- Enhanced legacy Snowflake queries, reducing Tableau loading times for end users by 90%.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

As a Business Analyst, I was responsible for the following:- Presented analytical findings and lead discussions with upper managers and executives.- Optimized Fountain and Coffee retail structures to increase margin by $10 million annually.- Designed RaceTrac’s first large-scale Power BI report that tracks the loyalty program’s KPIs.- Modeled five-year margin outlook to create stretch goals for Merchandising teams.

As a project manager, I was responsible for the following:- Coordinating with clients to gather requirements and establish the scope of each project- Tracking each project's performance and analyze the completion of short- and long-term goals- Ensuring that projects meet budgetary objectives and making adjustments to project constraints based on financial analysis- Developing comprehensive project reviews to be shared with clients and other team members

Atlanta, Ga, Us

As an intern at Allure: A Christie Company, I was involved in operations, implementation and data analytics. I was able to utilize my skills involving computers and apply them in my field. While working at Allure, I accomplished tasks that included the following:- Assisted with the mass rollout of a new menu board design for Little Caesars Enterprises.- Redesigned the company warehouse in cooperation with coworkers.- Restructured the process of collecting data for analysis.

Master'S Degree, Analytics

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Information Systems

High School