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Akron, Ohio, United States

• Directed a team of six Analysts and Specialists in delivering data driven insights through dashboards, ad-hoc reporting to inform decision making and identifying areas of risk or improvement for business performance.
• Interfaced as a technical leader with Operations, Finance, and Leadership Executives to create data strategy plan to satisfy multi-client and multi-departmental data reporting requirements and to highlight critical.
• Established and tracked Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across multiple business areas of Productivity, Profitability, Quality, Accounts Receivable, and held regular reviews with internal and external stakeholders
• Modernized the organization’s data warehouse to a Snowflake backend, while simultaneously ensuring internal and external data requirements were met and reporting did not lapse during the transition
• Created analysis to identify trips with a high risk for write-offs leading to a 10% reduction in write-offs YoY
• Developed self-service analytics website leveraging an OLAP Cube, Tableau, and standardized reports to allow end users to dive into data to identify issues without having to wait for analysts to create reports

Akron, Ohio, United States

• Reduced repetitive work through Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solutions to automate 27 report workflows resulting in ~1,300 hours saved annually using Power Automate
• Instituted Kaizen methodologies improve the automation framework for reports which reduced data refresh and processing time by 25% through more efficient SQL queries and ETL developments
• Ensured data integrity and accuracy through the use of automated alerting with SSMS, Tableau, and Power Automate to identify any load failures or issues
• Managed the Tableau Server as Site Administrator to ensure consistent security patching and uptime while remaining compliant with Data Governance and HIPAA requirements
• Built, updated, and maintained 200 separate Tableau dashboards and visualizations with over 1,500 users
• Implemented a data governance strategy to create uniform catalogued data sets, queries, and dashboards

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Led a Continuous Quality Initiative (CQI) in order to track and identify worker performance issues for improved training, which helped to drive an increase in productivity by 15% across the workforce while maintaining.
• Established a uniform reporting infrastructure for dashboard visualizations to standardize dashboard views on over 100 dashboards to create consistent data views organization wide
• Conducted internal and external training with business users to improve data literacy and Tableau adoption and created training documents and videos to easily answer key questions and reduce training time

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Serving as both an Engineer and a Business Development Consultant for companies in the Cleveland area. Below are some results of recent projects:
• Boosted inspection accuracy and efficiency by 15% in large scale manufacturing environments
• Developed databases used by healthcare industry professionals to identify and track their network of providers
• Provided engineering consulting services for product development, modeling, and testing
• Wrote and edited technical articles focused on mechanical design and advanced materials

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

QCPM: April '17 - PresentThe Mayor's Office of Quality Control & Performance Management (QCPM) was formed from the former CitiStat office by Mayor Frank Jackson in April of 2017. The primary mission of QCPM is to monitor and assess program and service delivery to the citizens of Cleveland by tracking and improving the performance of Departments through the.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Teaching multiple Microsoft curriculums; including Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) and Microsoft Registered Refurbisher Program (MRR) curriculums to middle and high school students. To help them earn industry-recognized certifications and skills prior to graduating school.

Highland Heights, Ohio

Swagelok is a private manufacturing company that specializes in high purity fittings, valves, and hose components.During my time at Swagelok as a contracted Quality Engineer in the High Purity Group (HPG) I was in charge of the Find it, Fix it, Raise Your Hand program as a site wide improvement process for Swagelok's Highland Heights facility. My primary.

Akron, OH

Austen Bioinnovation Institute of Akron (ABIA) is a collaboration of Akron area hospitals, FirstEnergy, the Knight Foundation, and University of Akron. The partnership’s goal is to shorten time from idea to commercialization of new technologies and products by bringing together world-class scientists, physicians, engineers, researchers and entrepreneurs in.

Strongsville, OH

Led a team of people researching new markets and business opportunities for Momentive's Quartz division. The goal in the position was to identify untapped market segments by analyzing competitive technologies. In order to achieve this goal, I had to design and implement plans to gain an understanding of different markets, as well as managing my team's time.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Hole Patch, LLC was small start-up that developed and began to commercialize a temporary pothole patch. This product served as an alternative to the current cold patch method of pothole repair. The product makes novel use of a Non-Newtonian Fluid, which behaves like a liquid to fill the hole and becomes rigid when a force is applied (e.g. a car driving on.

Master'S Of Management (M.E.M), Engineering Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Polymer/Plastics Engineering

Activities and Societies: Emerging Leaders Program, Case Future Leaders Organization, Sigma Nu