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Built initial data team for Rula working with other engineering and operational leaders for cohesive data input and outputs to scale rapidly. Implemented the modern data stack and consolidated budgetary spend into long-term cost savings. Improved performance of data pipelines with team focus decreasing error rate from ~2 incidents weekly to 1 monthly over a year.Built team into 2 data engineers and 3 analytics engineers to implement ELT and ETL pipeline specific practices. Built adherence to HIPAA guidelines in regards to analytical data. Created quarterly roadmap for high priority focus with clear outcomes across the business.

San Francisco, California, Us

Improved data model and dbt structure for analysts. Worked with team to create third party data pipelines with high resiliency and quality. Implemented oppinionated data model and dbt best practices. Comapny restructured shortly after joining.

Took a short break to spend time with family, learning, and figuring out what the next focal point of my career was going to be. I left with quite a few more ski days than the average year, a book a week read, and a focus on analytics engineering to build out my technical side more deeply after being primarily business oriented for the last few years.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Implemented dbt reporting layer structure from the ground-up using dbt cloud. Revamped data dictionary and created additional reporting schemas. Created long-term strategy towards AB test implementation, consolidated high budget tooling into maintained and scalable contracts, brought in outside consultants to revamp infrastructure to best in class telemetry reporting.

Austin, Texas, Us

Managed multiple projects including acquisition data consolidation, BI consolidation (through acquisition) and hired a management layer to support long-term business needs. Provided insights and analysis supporting the acquisition of A Cloud Guru by Pluralsight. Worked to prioritize ongoing analytics roadmap while keeping day-to-day operations in excellent condition. Key projects include: Customer reporting revamp, Data consolidation between multiple companies, Redshift --> Snowflake migration, Tableau deprecation (from previous competitor acquisition). Grew the total team to 8 members before my departure.

Austin, Texas, Us

Built out a layered department structure creating 4 distinct customer groups (Go-to-market, Product, Foundations - Analytics Engineering, and Content) to create a data alliance with key departments at the company. Supported and implemented key projects including customer health score churning & content ROI analysis.

Austin, Texas, Us

Supported reporting layer model building in dbt through a docker container build. Worked in an AWS data environment (DynamoDB, Redshift, S3) to support data warehouse building and ownership and data modeling build. Implemented Looker from the ground-up moving us from a historical Periscope Data build. Hired 2 team members to support key departments (Product & Marketing) as well as maintaining quality IC work to cover other departments data needs. Provided data and insights supporting a competitor acquisition and inherited two team members growing the total team to 4.

Austin, Texas, Us

First data analytics hire for the company. Supported all insights & analytical needs including re-tooling and scaling. Supported Series B funding data needs and worked closely with all members of the organization to build an initial analytics roadmap.

Austin, Texas, Us

My responsibilities included standard reporting, strategic (investment) reporting, mentorship, process analysis and insight delivery and guidance on next steps. I began an intern program at BC for analytics interns and helped lead optimization in Sales and Marketing through data and insights.I led weekly Business Reviews for the executive team, generating a deck and guiding conversation on positive and negative highlights in the business' input metrics leading to an efficient OKR management process. My most highest impact project was efficiency analysis in distributing leads that could have the highest return from sales and optimizing self service lead flows. Tools used: Periscope Data, Redshift, Segment.io, Tableau Reporting highlights: revenue, lead life-cycle, sales optimization, customer segmentation, win/loss, conversion, KPI and financial target reporting. General areas of business that I reported on were Sales, Marketing, & Product.

Austin, Tx, Us

Responsibilities:- Reported on Community Products to show value of network to customers- ROI reporting to support GTM retention efforts- Semantic analysis and data insights created as data products for industry insights- Internal stakeholder and external customer reporting to show value of product- Conducted repeatable retention analyses to tell customer story through internal dataTools: Postgres, Tableau, Excel, PowerPoint

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Business Analyst for the Business Solutions Group - Marketing team.Responsibilities include: Business and technical requirement gathering (ALM, TFS), data profiling (Information Analyzer, R), mock-up and report creation, business requirement document (BRD) creation, and working with many IT functions within the Enterprise Database Warehouse to follow through on project solutions for the business. Business facing roles include user acceptance testing, requirement gathering and project implementation. I partner with the business from the planning phase to deployment of projects to implement their goals through our solutions.Relevant project work: Ignition Recall Dashboards, Customer Aftersales, Lead Sales Pipe, Marketing Spend & Analysis.Work internally with IT teams including: data modelers, data integration, tool integration, quality assurance, infrastructure, and data governance to realize project requirements in project timelines. Work with GM Vendors and customer teams in the Customer, Digital Marketing and Sales areas.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Business Intelligence Developer for the Business Solutions Groups - Customer InsightsJob role includes report creation through enterprise software: Tableau and Cognos, Teradata Studio, SPSS. I Worked on six projects and gained experience through vendor learning and applied learning through delivering reports to customers. Projects revolved around supporting teams in Marketing, Customer Service, Executive dashboards, Call Center and Vehicle data.Directed and aided in the creation of Tableau Software training videos for the GM EDW/IT organization.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

Assisted Teaching a group of over 600 Sophomore level students. Held officer hours as well as tutored and graded for Introductory Management at Leeds School of Business.Joined the teaching assistant team again in the Fall of 2012 and helped to teach 400 students through the Management program. Duties included grading, teaching, communicating, and appointment driven meetings for clarification of project requirements.Spring 2013 semester - Teaching Assistant for Operations and Information Management. I led 60 students between two recitations and supplemented teaching with application of concepts and content from lecture.

B.S.B.A., Operations And Information Management

Graduated