Samuel Garen Email & Phone Number

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Founder and leader of the Data Solutions team, providing automated reporting and predictive analysis engines, investigation and deep-dive tools, dashboards, and frameworks, and data architecture to support operations teams and executives. Role includes management of four analysts, cross-functional leadership of large-scale projects spanning global markets, and management of vendor projects budgeted at $1.5 million annually.• Ground-up design and development for the eCommerce division’s core financial and operational forecasting engine, providing detailed automated projections of daily sales and other metrics used to set targets and monitor business performance, execute promotions, staff distribution and call centers, and identify financial risks. Actions taken based on recommendations derived from this engine generated an additional $10 million in sales during Cyber Monday 2020 and $12 million in additional sales over Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2021.• End-to-end construction and maintenance of a suite of dashboards blending and manipulating AWS, Exasol, MS SQL Server, and Adobe Analytics datasets into Tableau and Excel, providing users hourly visibility into key performance metrics, geolocated financial and web data, forecasts, and automated predictive analyses.• Research and development of datasets and construction of standardized queries during three major architecture transitions. Successfully delivered to front-of-house analytics teams methods for accurately reporting and analyzing consumer demand, net sales, site and app traffic, inventory and supply chain data, product metadata, payments and credit card processing information, geolocated sales and traffic, and other key operational data.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Portland, Oregon, United States

Portland, Oregon, United States

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Developed software packages in VBa, Python, and SQL for statistical analysis of systems performance and reliability data.• Designed and implemented process improvements decreasing labor on reporting tasks by 95% and reducing errors by 75%.• Performed rapid-turnaround development and updates of software and analytics tools to meet immediate needs that could not be accommodated by internal development and data teams.• Collaborated with analysts and developers to design reporting and dashboards to continue efficient operation during major database and software system transition.• Ensured reporting and processes were in full compliance with corporate policy and Public Utility Commission guidelines. • Advised client on methodologies and best practices for performing meaningful analyses of available data, providing timely, actionable results and reporting for project teams and operational groups.• Trained internal network data analysts on SQL language / Oracle SQL dialect, core concepts, and best practices for efficient use of Oracle SQL Developer.• Facilitated development of a library of technical documentation of above analytics tools and methodologies

Beaverton, Or

• Served as key liaison to Fortune 25 clients and Big Four banks in banking and regulatory matters each exceeding $1 million in monthly revenue and together earning more than one quarter of division revenue.• Collaborated with Agile development team on bi-weekly sprints, attended daily scrums, provided business, technical, and functional requirements, approved wireframes and demos, and performed UAT for software updates to SaaS database management web application.• Lead a team of fourteen attorneys, project coordinators, and others to simultaneously manage four of the company’s five largest projects, providing leadership, training, direction, and feedback.• Developed system of graphic and style guidelines for largest banking fraud settlement in US history, to produce consistent tone that acknowledges severity of settlement while producing positive messages of rebuilding trust. • Reviewed and approved monthly invoices and provided regular updates on project deliverables to executive management.• Successfully collaborated with operational divisions to design custom processes and software and build teams of dedicated resources to serve high-value clients effectively and efficiently.• Spearheaded training and process documentation programs to efficiently onboard project coordinators and attorneys.• Personally developed software tools used by project team to administrate four high-value projects, providing a level of visibility, flexibility, and reportability unique within the division.• Implemented process improvements on a group of sensitive processes, decreasing labor costs by 88% and errors by 90%.• Developed monthly revenue forecasting software tools integrating statistical analyses of live project data to provide estimates more than four times as accurate as previously achievable.

Beaverton, Or

Beaverton, Or

Portland, Oregon

• Presented weekly lectures for undergraduate classes of 60 to 80 students in world history, classical history, and the history of the Middle East. Polished skills in public speaking, instruction, and clear presentation of complex information.• Held regular discussion and mentoring sessions among students, including constructive critique of writing and analysis skills and techniques.• Graded assignments, papers, and essays and provided constructive feedback to students.• Developed reporting methodologies to analyze grade trends across racial, gender, and socio-economic lines to identify potential biases in grading and evaluation, as well as core demographics that could be better reached.• Named Portland State University’s Rockstar Graduate Teaching Assistant for Winter 2012 and Spring 2013.

Master Of Arts - Ma (Unfinished), History

• Completed 80 credits toward master’s of arts in history. Outbreak of Syrian civil war and destruction of building at the center of my.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, History

• Essays and presentations preserved in Portland State University’s permanent archive as teaching materials.

Minor, Architecture

• Design work preserved by School of Fine and Performing Arts and presented to National Architectural Accrediting Board as part.

Additional Study, Civil Engineering

Foundational Study, Classics