Work Experience

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Senior Manager Advanced Analytics

Duke Energy

[April 2020 to June 2021]

  • Shaped a data-driven digital channel strategy (aimed at improving customer engagement with digital channels)
  • Communicated analyses to influence company direction in all aspects of customer experience and customer journey
  • Grew analytics team from small supplemental group to thought leaders in the digital channel operations space
  • Portfolio manager of several Agile product teams delivering customer data products: data collection and quality management, data engineering, data modelling (in AWS framework), & data analysis and business intelligence visualizations
  • Supported deployment of several production data science models at scale (NLP categorization, propensity of content engagement, customer churn, operational forecast models)
  • Work with lines of business to determine modelling requirements, resource allocations, and iterative approach to delivery of analytics solution to support business needs
  • Coaching data professionals and managers across multiple team

Data Science Lead

Duke Energy

[June 2018 to April 2020]

  • Managed multiple data science projects against aggressive timelines
  • Hired, supervised, trained, and provided growth feedback for all members of my team
  • Led deployment of production-ready data science solutions: a product recommendation engine (Logistic Regression, GBDT) and customer intent prediction application(Random Forest, NN)

SENIOR DATA Scientist

Premier Inc.

[September 2017 to June 2018]

  • Using click stream analytics, devised and implemented predictive models to minimize customer churn and convert into product enhancements for SAAS offerings (Python, R)
  • Built scalable technical solutions and automated interactive BI dashboards for supply chain group (PySpark, SQL, Bash, Tableau)

Lead Data Management Specialist

Premier Inc.

[June 2015 to September 2017]

  • Led data stewardship responsibilities and custom query requests across lines of business
  • Collaborated with software and data engineers to implement and deploy strategic solutions and data remediation strategies
  • Performed model-tuning of predictive analytics models within patient care sector (i.e., predictive mortality, length of hospital stay, likelihood of complications during hospital stay)

TECHNICAL DATA ANALYST

Cox Media Group

[September 2014 to June 2015]

  • Conducted time series analyses to automate resource distribution based on past sales (Python, R)
  • Created dashboards to present sales analysis trends to leadership and stakeholders (VBA)
  • Mediated data integrity issues between the vendors and internal departments (Python, SQL)

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

University of Texas

[January 2012 to August 2014 ]

  • Led research efforts to study the neural-biological underpinnings of cognition and decision-making
  • Programmed multiple iterations of our computerized experiments (in Python, R, MATLAB, Bash), & integrated innovative new technologies into our tasks (e.g., eyetracker, dynamometer)
  • Completed ad hoc hypothesis testing of experimental data (Logistic Regression, Pearson correlation) using distributed computing solutions over extensive datasets
  • Hired, trained, and supervised all research assistants which were executing the experiments

DATA ANALYST

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

[October 2010 to August 2011]


STATISTICS TUTOR

Georgia State University

[October 2010 to August 2011]


RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Georgia State University

[August 2009 to August 2011]

Skills Summary

♦ Analytics thought leadership ♦  Staff growth and development ♦ Cross-functional strategies ♦ Agile product management ♦Persuasive speaker ♦ Adaptive problem solver ♦ Executive-level presentations ♦ Clickstream analytics ♦ A/B Testing ♦ Web scraping ♦


♦ SQL (HANA, Oracle, Netezza, SqlServer, Redshift) ♦ Python (scipy, pandas, PySpark, matplotlib, pyodbc) ♦ R Statistical Package ♦ SAS (Macros, Graph) ♦ AWS SageMaker, Lambda ♦ MATLAB ♦ MapReduce ♦ Hadoop ♦ Machine Learning ♦ Distributed computing ♦ Data Mining ♦