Data Specialist
CurrentPipeline Development > Managed, designed, developed, deployed, and maintained a PostgreSQL database to replace a set of csvs holding critical geospatial information for the LBD data pipeline > Designed and developed an integration testing framework for the LBD modelling process to track changes to model outputs from changes to codebase > Refactored a set of functions used in the post-modelling process to calibrate our outputs and introduced a new and more accurate methodology that was accepted and used exclusivelyTeam-specific work > Ownership of the data pipeline for the under-5 mortality LBD team, including the running of the pipeline to generate data for model runs used in research and in publication models, exhaustive data searches and data extraction, development of data quality checks, and the rewriting and expansion of the post-modelling code. > Creating of the data pipeline for the HIV LBD team, including data search, extraction of surveys, and development of data quality checksOther > Involvement in over 20 publications in 3 1/2 years > Involvement in hiring committee for new data analyst/extraction analyst positions > Gave regular trainings on several parts of the LBD data pipeline, and personally trained several employees on complete pipeline before regular trainings were established > Supervised and mentored a data analyst for a year, who has since moved into a more advanced position
