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Boise, Idaho, United States

• Worked cross-functionally to assess and log data and reporting pain points• Partnered with Engineering and Product to onboard a third party data cleaning services and a secondary snowflake instance for reporting• Partnered with operations to onboard Ganit, a third-party data science company, to start to deliver out bound inventory forecasting for 2024• Managed a team of four data strategists that partnered cross-functionally to deliver customer and business analytics that regularly presented their findings to Balsam Leadership

• Successfully implemented a SCRUM project management system to the Data Labs team that was later adopted by the rest of the Data department which resulted in an estimated 40% increase in efficiency as well as an increase in visibility for cross-functional partners• Lead a team of four to handle B2B, Finance, Inventory and customer reporting and analysis• Regularly coached and lead direct reports in presentations to the executive leadership• Lead a cross department team to navigate over 100 SSRS and PowerBI reports over to a new system within 6 weeks• Successfully lead the way to identifying and fixing major inventory reporting issues that occurred due to a large scale change in architecture, improving measured accuracy from only 40% to over 95%

Boise, Idaho, United States

• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.• Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques and business strategies• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, ad targeting and other business outcomes.• Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes.• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy.• Develop methodologies and processes for Data Governance and Compliance.• Training additional users on Analytic tools.• Set up report level Data Governance.

Boise, Idaho, United States

• Manage a cross geo team to help move our company up the Data Maturity Model • Work cross functionally with the Technology team to bring in new Data Sources to be consumed by our Reporting teams• Developed processes and documentation to ensure data reliability and accuracy • Manage a team to assist cross functional data requests with a wide variety of ETL and visualization tools

• Led a team to deploy and manage over 100 reports in Server Reporting Services (SSRS)• Work cross-functionally to develop standards for reporting and dashboard uses• Automated monthly data transfers to various third party marketing vendors• Built a pipeline in R and Python to grab data 500 mb of data from Google Analytics 360 and consume it in Power BI daily• Built out over 100 new database structures to store customer data

Boise, Idaho Area

• Led an initiative to adopt Microsoft companywide Power BI as a companywide which led to over 150 deployed dashboards across every team• Used the Slack’s API to build out Bots in Python to deliver real time revenue and inventory positions • Perform data analysis using Python, SQL Server, Tableau, and Power BI• Created a bot named Gandalf, to choose a happy hour location by statistically weighing a variety of parameters and posting the results to Slack every Friday

Boise, Idaho Area

• Partner with the Data Team to define the data structure for new data sources• Build data integrity and hygiene processes for customer data• Help develop and analyze customer segments to identify actionable marketing insights that optimize engagements and retention within segments• Perform ad hoc analysis and create reports using SQL Server, Python and R

Boise, Idaho Area

•Preform Hypothesis testing for an on going study on sprout inhibitors including both standard parametric testing and non-parametric testing, for small data sets using R•Providing Data Analysis for various KPIs on potatoes treated with 1,4-DMN using R•Report and present the statistical findings for the study

Boise, Idaho Area

• Prepare and teach lectures in Intermediate Algebra and Analytic Trigonometry• Evaluate and Grade student’s performance• Provide tutoring for Business Calculus, Calculus 1 and Calculus 2 in a tutoring lab

• Created and implemented tests to assess the accuracy of predictive models for telecommunications clients• Analyzed and reported on the accuracy of current data clustering methods• Prepared and presented findings to Data Science Team• Provided ad hoc analysis on mobile users' trends and behaviors

• Evaluated claims for reimbursement for inventory lost in warehouses• Reconciled seller’s inventory by tracking down virtual inventory that may have been sourced to other sellers incorrectly• Hit 100% productivity in half the time expected• One of the primary auditors for reimbursement requests of $2000 and less• Train and coach incoming Warehouse Lost associates

• Identification of discrepancies between physical and virtual inventory using problem solving steps of classifying root cause, organizing proper procedure, and advisement of protocol• Assist in inventory resolution for US teams• Coach, advisement, and grade solutions of International team resolution fulfillment• Train and Mentor incoming junior resolvers• Author of standard operating procedures for ASIN Merge procedure for our team

•Tutored students to attain 4.0 GPAs in in Pre-Calculus, AP Calculus, Algebra 2, and General Chemistry•Assisted five students in achieving a 3.5 GPA in Geometry, Physics, AP Physics, and Algebra 1•Successfully raised the GPA of two students from failing (.25) to a 2.5 GPA in less than one month•Created and taught a lesson plan for a group of 15 students, to review for their final exams in Chemistry, Pre-Calculus and Algebra 2

•Graded tests and homework for various Mathematics courses taught at Northwest University•Taught basic, introductory lessons for Matlab•Provided tutoring to students in College Physics, Discrete Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, and College Geometry•Created a brochure for advertising the Mathematics department at Northwest University

•Created and implemented a system for creating digital copies of all customer well information from hard copies•Created a system for calculating company vehicle usage for tax related purposes to take advantage of tax deductions and reduce audit risk•Maintained customer records and book keeping•Trained personnel in Microsoft Excel for budgeting and expense tracking•Helped create bids for several large well drilling contracts•Provided excellent customer service to walk-in customers and call-in customers

Masters Of Science, Mathematics, 3.59

Activities and Societies: Mathematics Instructor SIAM•Emphasizing in both Applied Mathematics and Statistics •Cumulative GPA 3.59

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Mathematics, 3.93

•3.93 GPA cumulative and a 4.0 in mathematics •Dean’s List from 2012 to present •Transfer Student Award 2012

Associate Of Science (As), Physics

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Chemistry