Richard Irwin Email and Phone Number

E-Mail: richard.b.irwin@gmail.comI am a strategic business data analyst who brings consummate levels of technology and organizational skills to be able to solve the most challenging of business situations.A highly knowledgeable and experienced physicist who seeks creative and imaginative ways to turn problems into advantages by utilizing an objective and analytical mindset. Turns data into actionable business recommendations. Quickly learns and incorporates new analytics techniques, software applications, and computer languages. Effectively communicates and defends results and procedures to colleagues, customers, managers, and executives.•Developed model to predict long term head count and salary cost which saves over 3 person-years of work annually.•Created labor strategy model, based on financial and business metrics, to forecast 3 years of head count, labor savings, and severance costs. Used results to recommend altering restructuring expenditures saving over $10,000,000. •Found a statistical calculation error. Correcting it enabled more than $1,000,000 in annual cost savings each year.•Uncovered an issue causing a long standing major yield loss. Led team to resolve it generating $1,500,000 annually.•Each quarter, delivered $500,000 to $2,000,000 in annual cost savings.•Mentor interns and junior staff members on analytics, programming, and business principles.Strengths: Prescriptive Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Excel (nested and array formulas, pivot tables, vlookup), PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, SQL, SQL Server Queries and Stored Procedures, VBA, R, Materials Characterization, Electron Microscopy, Failure Analysis, Semiconductor Processing, Mentoring, TeachingCharacteristics: Servant Leader, Love to Learn, Responsible, Innovative, Intelligent, Strong Core Values, Hard Working, CuriousTitles: Strategic Data Analytics Manager, Workforce & Business Intelligence Analyst, Failure Analysis, Semiconductor Process Integration, Physicist