Eva Ward Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Serve as product manager for data products to support operations, data science, statistics, and visualization tasks for federal, commercial, and non-profit clients. Build relationships with stakeholders and users to understand their needs and pain points. Develop and manage product roadmaps, including timelines and budget estimates. Prioritize backlog features in collaboration with technical and design leads. • Lead and manage project-based cross-functional teams of up to seven staff, including scoping workload, setting priorities, facilitating Agile-inspired sprint planning and stand up meetings, developing documentation, and providing technical support.• Develop extract, transform, load (ETL) pipelines using python, SQL, and R to obtain, combine, and standardize data from open source and proprietary sources. • Initiate and direct process improvement initiatives on client-based projects and internal management teams, including retrospective workshops with up to 12 interdisciplinary staff to define problems and ideate solutions.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Supervised functional data science team of up to six early career staff. Ensured workload was right-sized and relevant to career development goals. Provided coaching related to interpersonal and technical skills. Led recruiting, hiring, and performance reviews.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Led frontend development of Develop a web-based data visualization dashboard to identify outliers across quality and cost measures using Medicare claims data, D3, Vue, and Python. Created and delivered training on the use of the outlier dashboard to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services program administrators. • Supported design and implementation of a social network analysis to understand how organizations within community networks shared and used cross-sector data. Developed data visualizations in R and Python, including network graphs and Sankey diagrams, to communicate network analysis findings in client reports and presentations. • Created and maintained Python extract, transform, load (ETL) data pipeline to combine data from several multiple sources and create standardized analytic files for downstream analysis and visualization. Designed data visualizations for client reports and presentations to external stakeholders. Implemented fuzzy matching to merge several publicly available datasets on city names. Translated open text survey responses to English using Google Translate API. Contributed to development of client reports using R Markdown.

• Completed full-time, immersive, project-based data science program focused on programming, machine learning, data wrangling, project design, and communication• Used natural language processing with nltk on AirBnB listings data to compare topic modeling of short texts using non-negative matrix factorization and Latent Dirichlet Allocation• Built classification models using pandas, scikit-learn, and public data to determine the importance of physical infrastructure, management, and socio-economic factors on public water quality in Massachusetts

Boston, Ma

• Completed extraction, transformation, and loading process for largest Biennial Hazardous Waste Report data set in Massachusetts history and submitted to EPA several months before national deadline• Analyzed program data using Python and Jupyter Notebook to identify trends and inform program policy• Collaboratively redesigned permit fee documentation process to reduce staff time and burden while accurately reconciling over 95% of incoming permits• Created and updated data dictionary and documentation of external applications for $1.5M program• Identified and implemented enhancements and bug solutions in both external and internal applications using a user-centered design approach

Andover, Ma

• Created recommendation system to identify new business leads using both publicly available and proprietary data• Managed environmental remediation projects, including analyzing sampling data, developing recommendations, and writing regulatory reports, for clients in real estate and higher education• Worked with field contractors to achieve project objectives by translating results of data analysis into actionable tasks• Supervised intern program, including managing workload, scheduling fieldwork, and facilitating professional development

Andover, Ma

• Collected field samples, analyzed data, and wrote reports for environmental engineering projects regulated under the Massachusetts Contingency Plan• Led two redesigns of company website, including designing company logo, creating and editing content, and working with design firm to resolve bugs and browser issues• Identified and recommended improvements to practices, processes, and procedures related to environmental and hazardous materials management at public, higher education, and medical facilities• Created figures using AutoCAD and Microsoft Excel for client and regulatory reports, presentations, and other deliverables

Leominster, Ma

• Developed and maintained spatial data from multiple sources to support staff managing over 100 properties (25,000+ acres) and monitoring over 350 conservation restrictions (18,000+ acres)• Produced maps using ArcGIS and Adobe Creative Suite for marketing materials, wayfinding initiatives, grant applications, partner meetings, and reports to state agencies• Created and provided custom GPS/GIS workshops and tutorials for user-specific needs, such as database management, use of GPS equipment, field data collection, and data transfer

Wellfleet, Ma

• Volunteered for an intensive, residential year of service focused on environmental projects on Cape Cod• Planned, organized, and managed service projects for local volunteers such as installing energy saving devices in low-income housing and building garden beds for a non-profit after-school gardening program• Completed direct service projects in areas of natural resource management, such as trail maintenance, invasive species removal, shellfish propagation, and herring run restoration

Wellfleet, Ma

• Tracked and calculated greenhouse gas emissions of park operations, including electricity usage, fuel consumptions, and waste generation, as part of Climate Friendly Parks program to reduce park emissions• Produced maps using ArcGIS of park owned and maintained properties for current and future projects, such as maps of soil type, topography, and on-site structures to determine siting of replacement septic system• Wrote and edited reports, newsletters, press releases, and other materials for marketing publications

Ann Arbor, Mi

Bsce, Magna Cum Laude, Civil And Environmental Engineering

Activities and Societies: BLUElab, NASST, ASCE, Chi Epsilon

Post Baccalaureate Studies In Urban Planning And Design