Katrina Beeler Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Massachusetts

• Member of a small Data Science team embedded in an agile software development team building an internal search engine platform.
• Promoted for driving new projects, partnering with business on in-depth user analysis, developing several successful production models, and growing Data Science skills from Master’s degree.
• Collaborate with business to understand user pain points and propose analytics and data science solutions.
• Established self as the expert on the design, collection, maintenance, and analysis of the search platform’s clickstream data. Perform essential work to understand user behavior and relevance of search results, thereby.
• Built complex models including (but not limited to): - Document recommendation system utilizing MarketBasket, LDA, and Doc2Vec - Graph-based “similar queries” algorithm - Query clustering to understand user behavior.
• Regularly provide expertise to a variety of business units. For example, performed IT department’s first significant data science project to understand contributing factors to poor laptop performance through Big Data.

Boston, MA

• Work with Dr. Joe Peek in the Macro Finance section. Research focuses on the role and impact of banks.
• Find, procure, clean, and analyze complex datasets. Primarily work in Stata but have also used Python for web scraping and MATLAB for various analyses. Also, actively contribute ideas and aid with analysis, including.
• Have experience with a large range of datasets including the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the National Income Accounts, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Credit Consumer Panel, and Compustat.
• Perform quick turnaround work for FOMC policy memos.

Led two hour-long recitation sections as an addendum to the larger lecture. Each section had between 20 and 40 students. I also would hold weekly office hours, hold review sessions, create new problems, and answer student email.

Philadelphia, PA

Collect data for Dr. Adam Cobb and Dr. Mary McDonnell on the political affiliation of corporate board members to examine board turnover.

Performed coding and data projects, edited and fact checked journal articles, and created presentations. Created a large and complex dataset of Haver Analytics archival employment data in MATLAB and STATA for an academic research paper. Wrote a section of and helped edit the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book Summary.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Performed literature reviews, research, and data work on topics such as the housing market, the impact of environmental regulation on lifetime earnings, and Social Security Disability Insurance.Summarized Congressional hearings and think tank lectures on energy security and apprenticeships. Worked on a long-term SAS project converting variables in the SIPP.

Help coordinate the Democratic State Convention, organize a summer BBQ series, conduct opposition research, and other various tasks.

Research assistant to Political Science Professor Julia Gray. Compiled timelines of activities of various trade agreements to assist with professor's goal of examining trade organizations throughout the world and if they have succeeded in following their purported goals.

Taking minutes at Executive Board meetings, helping to oversee the Deputy Board, and general organizational work.

Tutoring other Penn students in Introductory Micro and Macro Economics. Currently 5 students for an hour each a week.

Cashiering, Sales, Customer Service

Worked on coordinating the 2012 Democratic State Convention in Lowell. Performed research and voter contact for the Ed Markey Campaign for Senate

Worked with the Field Director of the Metro-West Area for President Obama's 2012 grassroots campaign to create a volunteer team in my area. Served as a contact point for all volunteers and performed heavy volunteer recruitment.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) With Distinction In Economics, Summa Cum Laude, Economics And Political Science, Minor In Mathematics, Gpa 3.96/4.0

Activities and Societies: Penn Journal of Economics, Penn Democrats Executive Board, Kite and Key Society

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Science, 4.0/4.0

Completed Masters part-time while working full-time

Computer Science

Have taken two computer science/python classes

Gpa 3.97/4.0

Activities and Societies: Cum Laude Society, Co-Founder of LS Political Action, LS Dance Troupe