Tara St. Clair Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States

View my articles on the SAS Users blog site here: https://blogs.sas.com/content/author/tarastclair/

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Consultative work focusing on emerging technologies, architectural trends, deployment patterns, and implementation considerations for our enterprise-class customers that are looking to include our software into their larger IT environments and ecosystems.Leveraging deep experience architecting in AWS and OpenStack to guide customers through the provision and design of hardware landscapes to implement our software in hybrid and full cloud environments, as well as on-premises. Using experience gained through deploying our multi-tiered software into multiple customer environments to develop and proactively share best practices in architectural design with other customers. Administering multiple environments internally for our presales team to use when developing demonstrative content. Utilizing Linux sys admin, integration, and continuous design and improvement strategies to facilitate creation of best practices for ongoing software administration, as we use the software internally just as our customers do externally.Continuously evaluating emerging technologies and new architectural patterns our customers are using for their larger IT environments. Designing and building out new ways to architect our software to fit seamlessly into the mix, increasing our customer’s end-user experience as well as relevance in large and dynamic IT shops. -AWS Solutions Architect - Associate certified

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Engaging with customers that are evaluating our analytics and/or data management software stacks to identify and outline their needs from both business and IT perspectives. Designing architectural strategies for them that will fit the balance of those needs with their constraints. Guiding them through planning for best practice implementations. Working with their end-user and software administration teams to produce customized educational content where they have gaps to improve their experience with the software and to ensure that they are receiving its full potential. Often deploying software into evaluation environments for our customers. (Experience with Ansible, YAML)

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Providing consultation, validation, project design, and modeling services for the Advanced Analytics Insights team operating within the Services Delivery Advanced Analytics and the Smart Web Technology groups of Cisco Services.Focus on delivering impactful results to Cisco Services organizations, enabling them to gain insights into customer behaviors and opportunities to enhance the customer service(s) experience as a whole.

• Applying analytical techniques to identify recommended methods for significantly reducing warranty claims across multiple facilities and products• Coordinating logistics for the team using an agile framework; delegation of tasks, bi-weekly projections of deliverables, managing the team schedule, recording and posting meeting minutes/agendas, maintaining the course of team meetings, and reporting metrics as needed• Managing the acquisition of resources including outside data sources, library research on specific topics, and professional opinions

Oswego, New York

Open tutor for approximately 500 students taking Principles of Micro- and Macro-economics.• Assessed the needs of individuals and groups and formulated learning objectives• Quickly evaluated the learning styles of tutees and tailored communication methods accordingly• Coordinated bi-weekly review sessions for 30 students• Identified key areas of potential improvement in the courses

Designed public relations materials for the wealth management business and not-for-profit program, which aims to improve the socioeconomic conditions of an impoverished village in Sri Lanka.• Selected and implemented website building techniques• Developed a voice and an image for the not-for profit program to clearly communicate its objectives• Researched and proposed new outlets for program growth• Recommended options to strengthen the results of the advertising program

Administered academic support to a microeconomics class at Duke University’s summer program for gifted high school students.• Planned lectures and integrated activities• Managed discipline of students and periodically reevaluated the success of the course• Directed structured evening study sessions for the students while facilitating a creative environment

Master Of Science (M.S.), Analytics

• Data Mining (decision trees, market basket analysis, discriminant analysis) • Design of Experiments (power and sample size analysis.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Applied Mathematical Economics

Activities and Societies: • Discriminant Analysis Research • Ordered Probit/Tobit Research • Omicron Delta Kappa National Honor Society.