Sam Sparks Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

My product is the OPTICS group for AWS. This group is responsible for Cost Optimization for AWS customers within the AWS Industries. We create tools, perform analysis, and teach customers about Cost Optimization. I am part of the the leadership team for OPTICS and I am responsible for 40 people. -Established a media strategy for the OPTICS team on Twitch, YouTube, Blogs, and Case Studies. The effectiveness of this strategy was based on subscribers and anecdotical evidence from viewers. Subscribers increased 40% YoY. QuickSights dashboards were used to monitor the metric.-Launched an internal LLM product to assist with Cloud Financial Optimization. This product will be used to assist customers with reoccurring questions.-Created an internal coaching program to assist employees along their growth journey to who they want to be.

Seattle, Wa, Us

I led all People Analytics work for Business Development and Strategic Industries for AWS. I managed operations reporting as well as built the entire People Analytics work from the ground up. My work is baselining reporting, automating headcount monitoring, and approving headcount. I am designing the People Analytics roadmap for the future.

Minneapolis, Mn

I led all People Analytics work for Allianz Life. I built a retention score model. I designed a quarterly story for executives to understand underling information around retention, promotion, and hiring. I built Data Science training material to help teach analysts and analytics professionals data visualization and storytelling with data. I was part of the COVID response team to help determine how and when people would return to work. I also built an executive report to monitor COVID.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Developed statistical models used to support manufacturing processes. Worked on research/ focus groups for Industry 4.0 to update manufacturing processes for predictive maintenance.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Clinical research dealing in bio-metric data for clinical trials. This work includes managing CROs, database design, statistical analysis of data, and working on report writing.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Tobacco pricings, weather monitoring, and tobacco warehouse analysis.

Richmond, Va, Us

Taught Info 320-Business Intelligence and Data Mining. Instructed students in the basics for Business Intelligence using Excel, JMP, and Tableau. Also showed students how to use Data Mining to help solve business related problems.

Responsible for supporting DLA (Defense Logistics Agency) as a member of the Strategic Acquisition and Market Research team, working as a data/research analyst to assist in decision making for placing parts/supplies on long term contracts(LTC) with OEMs(Original Equipment Manufacturers) or small businesses. Primary responsibilities include tracking items with a metric to determine the quantity of items that have been placed on long term contracts. Determining which items to solicit for an RFP (Request for Proposal), RFQ (Request for Quote), or RFI (Request for Information), based on need, demand, and business type. Secondary duties included instructing users and mentoring junior analysts in the use of software, data analysis, providing data support to secondary teams within the company working other contracts, and assisting in data splicing for live meetings/teleconferences

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Responsible for supporting corporate treasury operations in an administrative role and as an analyst for cash flows analysis. Work included daily analysis of cash inflows and outflows to determine borrowing and investment needs. Primary duties included being the liaison between banking entities, retail operations, and intra-departments. Work includes ad-hoc treasury analysis, Libor loan decisions, meetings between departments for process improvements, weekly cash forecasting reports, monthly vendor analysis, and yearly cash forecasting model.

Responsible for supporting DORRA (Defense Logistics Agency Office of Operations Research and Resource Analysis) within DLA (Defense Logistics Agency) as a member of the Theatre Distribution Team. Work included logistic performance, supply chain operations, container cost efficiency, and ad-hoc requests as needed to support current customer projects. Primary duties included authoring programs to data-mine various governmental webservers and intranet data warehouses; preparing daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly deliverables concerning performance of logistics supply-chains. Analyzed data for reports that are used in presentations by managers and directors, these presentations drive policy changes at both supplier and management levels.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics

Master'S Degree, Decision Analytics