Karl Duane Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Primary reporting specialist for Financial Assistance Program, maintaining and developing daily dashboard, application ETL pipeline, and assignment tracker. Obtain and merge data across systems using Python, Microsoft Excel, and SharePoint. Investigate, map, and develop new data sources for merging into primary data stream. - Oversee conversion of primary data source from internal to external systems - Develop stable iterations of primary reporting Dashboard in Python and Excel - Develop ETL Python scripts for Daily Dashboard - Create and maintain team dashboards in BI toolsChief data editor for Metro Housing Boston RAFT Impact Report- a year in review publication on the impact of financial assistance provided to families. Extracting and analyzing financial data on the impacts of assistance provided by nonprofit programs across funding sources for housing stability during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Full time immersive program including requirements gathering, exploratory data analysis, visualization, hypothesis testing, natural language processing using supervised and unsupervised machine learning.Machine learning techniques used range from linear and logistic regression to complex neural networks.Notable Projects:Ames Housing Data- Developed a housing price predictor able to predict real estate sales prices.r/bestof Classifier- Developed a natural language processing model to predict the difference between a subreddit's content and its related best of subreddit.Covid-19 Misinformation Classifier- Part of a team which built a classification web application that uses Natural Language Processing to identify news titles likely to contain misinformation.Speech Emotion Recognition- developed a multi-class classification neural network to identify the emotional tilt of speech or song from raw sound files.Major Topics:Obtaining data: APIs and web scrapingExploring data: Matplotlib, Seaborn, Tableau, Qlik SenseModeling data (supervised and unsupervised learning): Linear regression, classification, regularization, dimensionality reduction, natural language processing, vectorization, principal component analysis, time series analysis and neural networks.

Gathered and analyzed information to discuss and prepare compliance reports, communicating complex tax issues and findings with taxpayers, representatives and staff to ensure compliance with local requirements and legislation.Provided taxpayer assistance by responding to in person, written, and telephone inquiries in a detailed oriented manner to answer questions or verify information regarding tax returns and regulations.Develop and implement compliance strategies for Joint Economic Development Districts, preparing biweekly compliance reports for resident, occasional entrant and construction companies. Recognized for exceptional performance in audit accuracy and efficiency while maintaining the balance of taxpayer and municipal satisfaction.

Data Science Intensive

Certificate Of Paralegal Studies

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)