Rita Packard, Gisp Email & Phone Number

United States

Building the data foundations and cutting-edge data science capabilities to drive mission management decisions. Lead cloud system and data operations, modernizing processes and practices to deliver automated end-to-end data analytics and deploy AI/ML model pipelines.

Led AWS cloud management, data engineering, and data stewardship activities as sole data asset for Corporate Assessments and Program Evaluations. Maintained critical datasets for enabling downstream data analytics and long-term corporate assessments. Developed NLP algorithms to create novel text-based data sources, expanded data accesses, and integrated siloed business/operations data to support enterprise-wide perspectives through data analytics.

Developed and implemented standards and practices to build consistency across data sources for downstream data science applications and analytics. Launched and deployed data science capabilities and analyses to answer multi-domain corporate questions. Led long-term consolidation and migration of multiple data streams into data pipelines, integrating data governance and stewardship standards into processes to manage and maintain data quality.

Springfield, Virginia

Duties: Develop automated analytics and data acquisition processes, evaluate data models for optimized performance, and build visualizations to illustrate statistical characteristics.

Mclean, Virginia

Duties: Evaluate analysis workflows, develop and build GIS database schemas, manage SDE data layers, build and implement Python scripted toolsets to automate analytic processes.

State College, Pennsylvania

Duties: Continuity of operations planning (CoOP); created and updated campus GIS shapefiles and SDE datasets, coordinated with statewide GIS managers, georectified CAD drawings to ESRI formats, managed GIS data, developed cartographic maps.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Geography

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Meteorology