Ryan Combs Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

• Responsible for all data and reporting aspects of Meta’s Meeting and Events Enablement Team (MEET).
• Collaborate with MEET team and cross-functional groups (Security, Finance, Tax, Facilities, Culinary, Environmental Health & Safety, Technical Production) to formulate program data strategy
• Design data models for implementation of Strategic Meetings Management Program
• Successfully onboarded Global Event Registry data onto internal data lake enabling automated reporting and insights for the first time
• Use SQL to create custom data views utilizing 20+ data sources to power processes and internal reporting tools
• Develop Tableau and Unidash dashboards to provide central source of truth reporting for leadership and cross-functional partners

Indianapolis, Indiana

• Responsible for the vendor side of Meta’s travel data and reporting program. Use a consultative approach to deliver data insights to solve business problems.
• Consulted with Meta TEC team and internal teams and provide recommendations to solve business problems
• Designed and developed reporting to monitor KPIs, SLAs and other relevant metrics for Travel, Expense and Card teams as well as Finance and Operations
• Enabled recovery of additional $2M in airline refunds during Covid by supplementing standard unused ticket data with additional data sources to uncover additional eligible tickets
• Utilized 12+ data sources to provide insights on all aspects of the global corporate travel program
• Developed automated solutions for recurring reporting

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Responsible for supporting Fortune 500 travel data and reporting programs through ad hoc analysis, recurring reporting, dashboard development and data quality support.
• Generated ad hoc, weekly, monthly and quarterly reports for internal and client use
• Developed an automated data quality monitoring process resulting in improved data quality and increased client confidence in travel data
• Utilized travel, survey, customer service, operations, profile, expense, card and HR data to deliver insights encompassing the entire global corporate travel program.
• Provided recommendations and consult with the account teams and clients to solve business problems
• Performed deep dive analyses to support program optimization

Indianapolis, Indiana

• Responsible for leading a dedicated team to ensure quality, timeliness and completeness of a pharma client's global transparency data with a focus on service excellence, compliance and efficiency.
• Generate ad hoc, weekly, monthly and quarterly reports for internal and client use
• Created and developed a MS Access based solution for travel transparency reporting that allowed for a reduction in resources at a time when overall volume was increasing
• Work across organizations, geographical regions and functional groups to identify and correct data quality issues
• Assess the impact and provide feedback of how process, SMM technology tool and reporting tool changes could impact data quality
• Prepare compliance team resource models as well as team summary and analysis for recurring business reviews

• Audited Health Care Provider attended meetings for transfer of value amounts to ensure accurate and timely reporting of spend data
• Implemented Excel and Access based solutions to enhance accuracy, precision and efficiency of audit and reporting processes
• Developed and effectively communicated new processes to team members to solve complicated and time-consuming problems in an efficient manner

Research/Thesis Work(Synthesis and adsorption properties of molybdenum(IV) sulfide, MoS2, and tungsten(IV) sulfide, WS2 nanostructures with curved atomic layers)Highlights/accomplishments-For the first time, elongated MoO3 particles were converted to MoS2 nanorods while preserving morphology in a solid state synthesis. -Elongated MoO3 particles were.

-Served as teaching assistant for general chemistry 1 & 2 laboratories. -Duties involved preparation of labs, tutoring and directing students during lab, and grading of lab reports. -Tutored several students outside of the lab to help them in the classroom portion of the course

- Tutored nursing and chemistry majors in general chemistry, inorganic chemistry, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, statistical thermodynamics, calculus, and biochemistry. -Successfully helped 40 students improve test scores in these classes over a six year period.

Master Of Science (Ms), Chemistry

3.9 GPA

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemistry

3.6 major GPA