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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Santa Monica, California, United States

As a Sr. Product Analyst, I supported in the development of all the company's direct-to-consumer streaming apps. I oversaw how my team used data to drive decision-making, providing nuanced, actionable insight on any "fork in the road", big or small. I also advised on A/B tests, and developed scalable statistical models for result interpretation and impact forecasting of different UI design and choice architecture of our platforms.

Santa Monica, California, United States

In this role, I supported operationalized A/B testing with ad-hoc data analysis & QA with our product development team, and acted as the main point-of-contact for traffic projections and nuanced, in-depth interpretation of experiment results. As part of this role, I developed automated data pipelines to deliver real time insights to stakeholders through intuitive dashboards, using SQL, Python & Matillion on the backend and Tableau on the user side.

Rosemead, California, United States

Worked within a dedicated analytics team within the Enterprise Risk Management division revamping methods to detect erroneous payments to outside vendorsPiloted automated process in Python for near-duplicate detection in invoice documentation, allowing for higher throughput in auditing and alleviating need for custom data parsingPresented results to direct supervisor and VP of Risk Management, concisely summarizing image and text processing methods, emphasizing effectiveness and efficiency

Santa Monica, California, United States

Facilitated the Institute’s 2021 Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton with the Research Team. Kept information up to date with last-minute changes in programming, documented talking points and supporting data, and created an information archive at the end of the conference.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Ensured that data sent to the City of Los Angeles and the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, accurately represents the demographics and outcomes of people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles.Acted as the point man for data requirements, best practices, and technical know-how for the Homelessness Management Information System (HMIS)Leveraged my skills in R, Python, and SQL to automate data entry and reporting processes, and perform advanced analysis on trends in spending and outcomes.

Moore Hall, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, Ca 90095

Implemented a system to automate the distribution of weekly survey emails, reducing time spent compiling these emails by over 80% per research assistantWrote code to automate the extraction of state government data using R, boosting productivity from 1-2 workdays per dataset to 1-2 hours per datasetAudited and organized records for 5,000+ participants in MS Access for ongoing longitudinal study, currently in its 8th year, efforts ensured validity of future findings

Master'S Degree, Econometrics And Quantitative Economics, 3.7

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics