Daniel Dicker Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Building the collaboration, communication, and change management platform for data teams operating at scale.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Global Burden of Disease project (GBD). Gathersrequirements from senior scientists and communicates model updates across the institute.Coordinates work plan and supervises team of five individuals.• Key engineer responsible for increasing efficiency: Reduced runtime of all-causemortality modeling pipeline by 85% while increasing the amount of data beingprocessed by over 120%• Led effort to update mixed-effects models allowing for greater flexibility in modelparameters• Systematized versioning of all mortality input data, model parameters, and estimates tofacilitate tracking and reproducibility of results

Seattle, Washington, Us

Designed high performance software capable of processing terabytes of data for the GBDproject as a member of the Scientific Computing group.• Reengineered software to generate risk factor estimates for morbidity and mortality• Built library to manage versioning of final GBD estimates• Designed internal custom workflow and job management library to streamline pipelinedevelopment and runtime reliability on the institute's HPC cluster

Seattle, Washington, Us

Developed core analytic engines for GBD as a member of the Central Computation team.Refined shared data processing and analysis libraries in Python, R, and STATA for use across theinstitute.• Rebuilt software that enforces consistency between all-cause mortality and causespecificdisease models to support an 800% increase of data being processed whilereducing runtime by 70%• Developed novel data pipeline and methods to generate mortality, morbidity, and riskfactor estimates for small area estimation based on socioeconomic and health indicatorsin England• Built and managed web-based tools used by researchers to specify tens of thousands ofmodel parameters for correction of death records• Formulated and facilitated Python and SQL training across the organization once perquarter to professionals at a novice and intermediate skill level (20-40 individuals ateach training)

Seattle, Washington, Us

Led data management, preparation, and presentation of all global hospital and cancer data forthe GBD project. Assisted with refactoring the causes of death data pipeline.• Reengineered death record correction program resulting in a 95% speed increase• Designed query tools and visualizations in Python and JavaScript to assist researchers invetting model results• Created table schemas and optimized queries for causes of death database• Formulated and facilitated STATA training across the organization once per quarter toprofessionals at a novice and intermediate skill level (20-40 individuals at each training)• Formatted figures and tables for external presentations and peer-reviewed manuscripts

Washington, D.C., Us

Restructured legacy Electionary platform, an online resource for state voting rights and electionadministration laws in 34 US states.• Developed functionality allowing staff members to bulk upload information directly intothe platform eliminating the long-term need for an in-house developer• Authored documentation to support ongoing maintenance of new and existing use

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Served as project manager and technical lead of Outcome’s clinical trial management system(CTMS). Maintained database of patient interactions and built reports for senior management.Gathered requirements and prototyped reports for the American College of Surgeons’ (ACS)surgical quality improvement programs as the team’s technical lead.• Coordinated report specifications between the ACS clinical staff and Outcome’sengineering team• Directed issue investigation and trained technical support representatives for ACS• Trained over 150 international Outcome staff in Switzerland on the CTMS

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Supported healthcare professionals in their use of online data collection and management toolsfor healthcare quality improvement programs. Provided user training and assistance withreport generation.• Team lead for American College of Surgeons’ programs and American Society of PlasticSurgeons’ Tracking Operations & Outcomes for Plastic Surgeons program• Awarded the “Extra Mile Award” by Outcome-Quintiles Senior Management inrecognition of work on the ACS programs

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us