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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Helping design, document, and deliver data and analytics solutions to clinical and operational leaders.- Leading discussions with care teams and leadership to build business questions and define what an answer looks like to improve patient outcomes.- Mentoring other analysts and engineers in analytical principles and supporting team member growth.- Creating concise written summaries to present purpose, findings, and opportunities for all levels of leadership, communicating in a practical and respectful manner.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Minneapolis, MN based start-up focused on delivering novel AI solutions.Acquired by Relational AI.• Corporate responsibilities: Managed legal, accounting, and human resources needs, including payroll, client billing, contract review, and pre-sales consulting to ensure smooth operation and execution of analytic projects.• Corporate responsibilities: Collaborated with prospective and active clients to identify and prioritize business needs. Led analytic team to define answerable questions, collect requirements, and produce deliverables to support senior leaders with decision-making.• Private equity client: Formed product hierarchy and decomposition for use in reporting and data analysis. This decomposition led to client finding appropriate areas for price changes.• Recreational vehicles client: Assisted with design and development of demand forecasting model, then created and automated a report for use by upper-level management. Project was completed by writing documentation for training purposes and successfully transitioning monthly update process to client.• Recreational vehicles client: Produced interactive report to help motorsports client plan and visualize optimized sales routes. Revamped routes save up to 10 hours drive time each week for salespeople.• Healthcare client: Supported analytic development with data processing and cleansing. Tracked and diagnosed data issues, gaining buy-in from client on needed changes to future data capture.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Contributed to developing client strategy and analytic engagement with internal and external clients.• New business: Collaborated with new business team to develop innovative analytics based on complex data from several independent and disparate sources. Prospective clients ranged from retail to foreign tourism boards.• Health insurance client: Created comprehensive data and analytics plan for internal and external partners, from providing technical and data requirements, to a summarized presentation with observations, considerations, and limitations for internal clients and external senior management.• Hospitality client: Stepped quickly into new role to translate outdated code into new languages and proactively add analytic enhancements designed to anticipate and answer new business questions.• Financial services client: Designed innovative deliverable for external senior management, leading internal stakeholders to carefully define business needs and make recommendations for final product. Process and deliverable significantly reduced manual data entry needs, leading to greater report reliability and broader usability.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Supported the Ameriprise Trust Company team by creating new analytic tools and improving current procedures.• Designed new golden-source tool using Access to house ATC plan information for internal and external clients, with functionality to replace old tool and several Excel tracking spreadsheets. Improved data visualization meaningfully increased ease of information access and successfully limited user errors. Time Savings: Five hours per month.• Created and implemented database to bring together all details of investment contracts, showing complex holder and fund relationships within ATC. This first easily accessible documentation for contracts shows gaps in information clearly and provides significantly greater understanding of process details. New database substantially reduced user error and increased department reputation. Time Savings: At least five hours per month.• Partnered with business and IT to improve and automate monthly financial reporting process, reducing errors from manual touch-points and significantly cutting down procedure time. Time Savings: At least 40 hours per month.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Contributed to Financial Planning & Analysis team by delivering and enhancing established processes and analytics.• Consolidated and streamlined several projection models to increase accuracy and efficiency using Excel and VBA, including month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting for both Life and Long Term Care lines of business. Time Savings: 30 hours per month.• Designed and coded a new benefit reserve dashboard using SAS, which showed how several areas of concern affect the current month-over-month change. The dashboard was used during monthly reporting meeting with diverse customers. Time Savings: Up to six hours per month.• Coordinated annual Asset Adequacy Testing, working cross-functionally with representatives from all lines of business, upper level management and several external partners. Risk Savings: Overhaul of NY report meaningfully increased internal understanding of state requirements and helped all lines produce and document individual inputs for future statements.• Worked with members of several departments to implement system improvements, converting business needs into IT deliverables. Enhanced interpersonal skills while defining business problems, primary project objectives, gathering requirements, gaining buy-in from management, and completing user acceptance testing. Risk Savings: Increased company reputation with improved internal and external customer experiences.• Enhanced all procedural documentation for Long Term Care financial reporting, significantly reducing time to productivity for new hires. Time Savings: Up to 20 hours per new hire.

Applied Statistics

Certificate, Business Management and Communication Skills

Bachelor'S Degree, Statistics

Education record

Educational Path: Associate of the Society of Actuaries Passed exams for Probability Models, Financial Mathematics and Financial Economics.