Ruben Parra Email & Phone Number

In my current role as a Staff Data Engineer, I: • Liaise with data analysts and other stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient data solutions—the ability to work well with others as an essential team player and leader. • Continuously monitor and maintain data integrity and security across multiple data sources; deploy data governance frameworks and conduct regular audits to pinpoint and address data quality issues.• Create, maintain, and optimize data pipelines and ELT processes to streamline the full integration of unique partner datasets with ML models and present accurate predictions.• Work closely with data scientists to provide clean and structured data for analysis.• Mentor a team of data engineers and provide technical guidance to team members; monitor the team’s compliance with established engineering standards. Passionate about leading and developing others. • Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact and provide hands-on leadership, methodology, structure, and information necessary to coordinate decision-making and development. • Establish data quality standards and guidelines, define data validation rules, and implement automated processes to detect and correct data anomalies.

Tucson, Arizona, United States

In my current role as a Senior Data Analyst, I: • Successfully developed new methods to track and maintain Support Center KPIs by evaluating data systems and creating automated reporting processes.• Proficiently designed and created dashboards to illustrate trends and highlight emerging issues with products and/or services based on customer interactions.• Participated in organized information gathering, analyzed cross-functional requirements, and presented findings to all levels of management, as appropriate.• Directed all end-to-end analysis steps, such as requirements gathering, methodology development, data pulling/processing, and results delivery.• Supported the implementation of continuous improvement processes to enhance data management, visualization, and interpretation operations.• Assisted in designing, implementing, and enforcing data infrastructure, security protocols, and system policies to ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and availability.• Responded to and appropriately handled emergency situations that arose calmly and effectively with the ability to change the approach or method to fit the situation best. • Managed security mechanisms, information access governance, and project execution in collaboration with data scientists.

Tucson, Arizona

In my previous role as a Senior Data Analyst, I:• Championed developing and managing relational models for reporting student data; created complex data analysis, methodologies, and predictive data models for assessing education outcomes.• Supervised data collection and oversaw dashboard development on key products to assist the campus in accessing and interpreting student and financial data to monitor goals.• Provided relevant data-related reports to the university’s leadership and key stakeholders for decision-making, action planning, and continuous improvement.• Monitored the university’s data quality daily and ensured operational and program data was complete and accurate.• Facilitated regular meetings with stakeholders to gather requirements, organize use acceptance testing, and offer other support functions; Has a keen ability to translate and simplify complex topics for high-level executives and general business audiences.

Responsible for developing and maintaining communications with Pilot application users and campus leadership. Develop process to mine predictive analytics application to find students at risk. Identify students at risk and provide consumable report for campus leadership to inform retention efforts. Maintain and log communication with vendor and manage project needs.

Selling consumer electronics, my responsibilities included providing customer service finding best fit product for customers needs and wants. Served as Team Mentor to train and assist new and struggling associates with the selling process. Also I was responsible for researching and maintaining knowledge of industry and product.

Master'S Degree, Management Information Systems, General

Concentrations in Business Intelligence and Information Security

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration In Marketing