Laura Poff Email & Phone Number

Eugene, Or, Us

* Provide advising and mentorship to other consultants at Bytecode* Advocate for consultant happiness* Guide consultants on career path

* Certified Looker Developer* Certified Looker Trainer* Onboarded 45 companies from start up to enterprise phase across multiple industries from e-commerce to healthcare onto Looker* Technical training for more than 300 new Looker users - Developers and Business Users* LookML and dashboard development to best meet each company's business requirements* Managed large scale Looker roll-out projects* Part of 1st and 2nd place team in Looker Hackathon in 2019 and 2020* Worked on 100% remote team

Franklin, Tn

* Maintained and enhanced data pipeline for transforming raw claims to customer reports and insights* Helped identify on average 40% and up to 60% annual savings for customers based on anomaly testing and market pricing. * Designed and developed anomaly testing in Redshift etl process based on multiple factors on claim lines* Used Monte Carlo simulation written in Python and Elasticsearch to prove that matching claims to our curated data was possible (used in patent)* Designed, developed, and tested claims processing Python module to match each claim to Genetic Testing categories using various fields (used in patent)* Designed machine learning pipeline in Python and Redshift to match claims to genetic testing domains * Designed and developed Kibana and Google Sheets dashboards and Business Intelligence (BI tools) to identify trends in Genetic Testing* Contributed to company wide repository for common data functions used in python * Supported internal customers for presentations, white papers, and published research regarding trends in the Genetic Testing market* Designed python script for creating confidence intervals on sparse or convenience samples* Designed and developed automated statistical tests in Python to identify the same providers in different datasets using claims fields where 1000s of providers needed to be compared

Nashville, Tn

* Used Holt-Winters time series analysis in SAS tool JMP to create advanced alerts and monitors for server metrics.* Using historical data, able to alert on a blackout incident 8 hours before, while current alerts gave a 5 minute warning* Created a webservice using Jenkins and VMware for a test environment that produces the same distribution of response times as observed in production* Coordinated the effort to stand up a test environment to isolate service calls* Developed test plans for the isolated test environment* BOLD Award: designed to acknowledge and recognize team members throughout Technology not only for outstanding efforts and accomplishments, but also for demonstrating and encompassing the Asurion Core Values

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

* Developed Operations Review for IT department * Significantly improved Balanced Scorecard by implementing best practices in visual data display and through automation using JMP statistical tool * Worked in several cross-functional teams to improve data quality, define processes, and define Key Performance Indicators* Facilitated meetings of data analysts from across IT in knowledge sharing sessions* Began a JMP User Group for Asurion

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

* Used TraCI (Traffic Control Interface), which bridges transportation and wireless network simulators* Trained surrogate models to describe the physical system* Used optimization in order to guide decision-making * Presentation at Transportation Research Board annual meeting 2011

Davis, Ca

* Designed and Administered an internet survey of Sacramento area commuters* Collected and cleaned data for 12,000+ respondents using scripts * Led a team of 3 undergraduate researchers* Statistical analysis on survey responses, especially related to gender bias in transportation behavior such as mode choice* Research funded by CalTrans* Helped develop a framework for multitasking/polychronic behavior* “A Conceptual Typology of Multitasking Behavior and Polychronicity Preferences” published in Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research 2011

Chattanooga, Tn

Master Of Science - Ms, Risk And Reliability Engineering And Management

Activities and Societies: Institute of Transportation Engineers, Transportation Research BoardSpecialized study in Probabilistic Design.

Master Of Science - Ms, Transportation Technology And Policy

Activities and Societies: Institute of Transportation Engineers, Transportation Research BoardSpecialized study in Qualitative.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Applied Mathematics And Secondary Education

Activities and Societies: University Honors Program