Experience

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  GP Fund Solutions

  • United States
  • Financial Services
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Associate Data Manager

    • Jul 2023 - Present

    *Chair of the Data Strategy Committee, led meetings, assigned tasks, developed KPIs to trackprogress.*Led the GPFS reporting suite, overseeing enhancements, remapping via Snowflake and streamliningreport request workflows.*Assumed primary responsibility for report approvals , instituting a systematic checklist and tieredapproval matrix.*Established a robust reporting onboarding program, integrating

  • Senior Financial Analyst

    • May 2022 - Jul 2023

    *Designed and implemented a company wide data strategy, focusing on strategic decision-makingand promoted data literacy throughout the organization.*Implemented technology and automation to optimize employee impact, and ensured modern andresponsible data management practices.*Designed custom reports using SSRS Report Builder and developed Power BI dashboards tailored toclient specifications.*Developed data-driven KPIs for operations, enabling optimized pricing models, actionable insightsfor stakeholders, and fostering evidence-based-decision-making over intuition.

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  New York State Division of the Budget

  • Albany, New York, United States

  • Senior Budget Examiner

    • May 2016 - May 2022
    • Albany, New York, United States

    *Developed a method to quickly query objectionable legislation and open issues identified by examiners during budget season, allowing the Director of the Budget to make prudent decisions on actionable information. *Created visually appealing dashboards in Excel and Tableau for various projects using advanced functions, macros, and VBA.*Formatted and structured data using SQL allowing additional data analysis.*Developed method to track the status of the Executive and Enacted Budget allowing the Director of the Budget to make informative decisions quickly.*Created and implemented data standardization to clean up bad data for a project involving 29 state agencies all with different methods of tracking to inventory over 30 thousand state-owned motor vehicles. *Created tableau dashboards for the Governor to track rolling assets throughout the State and track location in real time. *Project manager and leader, ability to meet tight deadlines, worked with many agencies making sure the end product met all their needs while still prioritizing the Governor's initiatives.*Oversight and financial management of the New York State Health Insurance Program, which provides comprehensive health insurance coverage to State and local government employees, retirees and their dependents.*Identified trends and identified savings areas, created visuals to present to upper-level management.*Worked with large-scale datasets to develop an understanding of the use of various healthcare services identifying trends that increased spending.Created easy to update excel templates for tracking various fringe benefit programs, reducing the errors and saving time for my team.*Used advanced functions in Excel including index and match.*Costed out the fiscal and programmatic impact of various proposals impacting the $8 billion NYS spends on employee fringe benefit annually. This involved negotiate billion dollar union contracts in the collective bargaining process.

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  CommerceHub

  • Albany, New York Area

  • Vendor Support Representative

    • Feb 2016 - May 2016
    • Albany, New York Area

    *Provided accurate and timely customer service and technical support to our clients via multiple communication channels (phone, email, live chat).*Wrote SQL queries daily to retrieve vendor support data.

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  Optometrist's Network

  • High Falls, NY

  • Contract - Database Administrator

    • Jul 2014 - Dec 2014
    • High Falls, NY

    *Built mail templates to automate batch mailings.Queried data to streamline business processes.*Analyzed customer market areas using GIS analysis to determine market areas for SEO.

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  University of Georgia

  • Athens, Georgia Area

  • Research Assistant, Graduate Assistant, Instructor

    • Jul 2009 - May 2014
    • Athens, Georgia Area

    As a Research Assistant,*Used quantitative methods, regressions, spatial (GIS) analysis to determine whether announcement of steep slope ordinances lead to the preemptive building.*Created statistical models using regression and ANOVA methods.Stochastic modeling.As a Graduate Assistant,*Performed a variety of tasks including statistical analysis using R, SAS and STATA.*Developed methods to clean, query and structure large data sets from different municipalities and sources.As an Instructor,*Taught and created all course elements including, syllabus, examinations, assignments, grading schema and PowerPoint slides.

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  Advantage Sales & Marketing

  • Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

  • Category Manager

    • Jun 2008 - Jul 2009
    • Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

    *Utilized Nielsen and IRI data to analyze our customer's (e.g. Unilever) products and categories.*Promoted from intern to analyst to manager in seven-month period.*Manipulated data and created visualizations to perform analysis of successful and unsuccessful products regarding market space.*Used analytical and quantitative methods to successfully provide market insights.*Quickly became the go to excel expert in the office.