Alan Ward
Data Consultant at Behavioral Health Outcomes Data Services (BHODS)- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Behavioral Health Outcomes Data Services (BHODS)
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United States
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Health and Human Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Data Consultant
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Feb 2022 - Present
• Upgrading staff skills by designing and implanting agency-wide R tutorials • Saved dozens of hours of work hours by writing Python script to scrape and parse web data of potential clients • Automated exploratory data analysis and statistical testing of SAMHSA client data via R script • Upgrading staff skills by designing and implanting agency-wide R tutorials • Saved dozens of hours of work hours by writing Python script to scrape and parse web data of potential clients • Automated exploratory data analysis and statistical testing of SAMHSA client data via R script
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United States
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Mental Health Care
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100 - 200 Employee
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Program Analyst
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Jan 2018 - Dec 2022
• Analyzed client outcomes and reported actionable insights to all levels of leadership • Led project examining the viability of providing mental health services remotely on client outcomes. Coordinated team of Analysts and integrated varied analytical output into coherent report • Saved hundreds of hours of employee time and dramatically improved reporting efficiency by automating client data extraction from LA County database, parsing it, and loading it into R Shiny dashboard • Standardized disparate financial analyst reporting procedures by automating data extraction from multiple sources and organizing analytic output into user-friendly format • Reduced Program Analyst onboarding time by 75% by redesigning training methodology Show less
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University of Central Florida
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Assistant
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Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
• Developed comprehensive dataset of Middle East protests by leveraging multiple databases • Improve team research efficiency by refining and sharing improved data collection methods • Developed comprehensive dataset of Middle East protests by leveraging multiple databases • Improve team research efficiency by refining and sharing improved data collection methods
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LRW: Now Material
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United States
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Market Research
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1 - 100 Employee
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Analyst
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May 2017 - Jul 2017
• Helped develop and maintain SPSS code to load raw data, tidy it, and feed it into Dapresy dashboard • Improved reporting accuracy by writing R script to detect and remove dataset outliers • Helped develop and maintain SPSS code to load raw data, tidy it, and feed it into Dapresy dashboard • Improved reporting accuracy by writing R script to detect and remove dataset outliers
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UC San Diego
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Associate-In Instructor
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Aug 2013 - Jul 2016
Designed curricula, taught, and managed teaching assistants for a wide variety of political science courses. Improved students' professional and academic prospects by providing opportunities and guidance on performing public policy analyses using R.
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Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Sep 2009 - May 2016
Took the lead in independently designing and implementing grading methods for course instructors.Ensured that all students had firm grasp of principles of research design and the appropriate use of statistics in their original work.Assisted students in operationalizing their projects and synthesizing vast amounts of information into a coherent argument.
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Freshman Composition Instructor (Muir College)
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Sep 2014 - Mar 2016
Helped students develop crucial critical thinking skills through analysis and reconstruction of complicated texts' arguments.Strengthened students' ability to express themselves a clear, concise, persuasive writing style.
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University of Illinois Chicago
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Graduate Research Assistant
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Sep 2007 - May 2009
Helped design, prepare and clean massive international trade treaties dataset for academic publication. Revised, edited, and provided background research for numerous international relations papers. Helped design, prepare and clean massive international trade treaties dataset for academic publication. Revised, edited, and provided background research for numerous international relations papers.
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Education
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UC San Diego
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science -
University of Illinois at Chicago
Master’s Degree, Political Science -
McGill University
Bachelor’s Degree, Political Science and Philosophy