Experienced data analyst who is always eager to learn and try something new! Brings problem-solving, critical thinking, communication and collaboration, and time management skills developed while obtaining graduate degrees in statistics, physics, and medical physics to each new problem and endeavor.My graduate research primarily focused on causal analysis of functional neuroimaging data: how signal-processing techniques affect results and how these analytic techniques apply to clinical populations. This work required me to expand my knowledge base with a foray into neuroscience, neurology, and cancer biology. With this additional knowledge, I was the first author on a paper that was reviewed in a journal which discusses salient research in epilepsy.I have been a statistical consultant on numerous projects involving plant and animal biology, teaching methodology and interventions, and human biology and medicine. I strive to increase the ease of communication between my clients and myself through increasing my domain knowledge in the project area and increasing the client’s knowledge of analytic techniques. One of the most influential and heart-breaking lessons came during my training when the consultant training me told our client that their experiment was incorrectly designed to answer the question they wanted to answer. I was reminded to think deeply and often about the questions an experiment is trying to answer at all stages of the experiment but especially during design. On a lighter note, I have learned that pictures, even when hand-drawn, are a consultant’s best friend.In all modeling tasks, I remind myself of the famous George Box quote, "All models are wrong, some are useful.", and consider the pros and cons of each assumption to help determine which model might be most useful.
Listed skills include Problem Solving, Teamwork, and Data Analysis.