Experience

Balance Innovations, a Brink's Division

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer-Data Science

  • Aug 2022 - Present



Acxiom

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Analytics Manager

  • Sep 2021 - Aug 2022

  • Lead and direct a team of business analysts, statisticians, and strategy experts responsible for driving $20MM in indirect revenue.• Interview, evaluate, and hire new members ensuring overall fit.• Facilitate a culture of learning and candid conversation as the team explores new technologies, skills, and implementation.• Active participation in Corporate Sponsorship program and Business Resource Group Committee.• Cross-coordinated with internal partners to crystalize the engagement process thereby doubling the demand for team services and resulting deliverables. Show less

• Team Lead

  • Nov 2020 - Sep 2021

  • Coach junior analysts to support daily job functions and quantitative concepts.• Drive technical projects and provide leadership including task planning, code reviews, as well as individual code contribution.• Use predictive modeling and machine learning to improve and optimize client usage, adoption, and benefit of data.• Utilize statistical techniques to perform predictions, analyze patterns, and uncover hidden stories told through data.

• Senior Statistical Analyst

  • Mar 2016 - Nov 2020

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and support development of analytic solutions based on company data products.• Prepare analysis datasets by appending data, deduping, loading data to analysis application, and merging with other datasets. • Research and implement new analytic techniques or methodologies as needed for specific projects or analyses. • Ensure quality and timeliness of deliverables that meet expectations while balancing business needs with the appropriate level of analytical rigor. • Communicate findings to internal and external business partners and clients.• Develop with fellow statisticians a streamlined standard process to predictive modeling that diligently incorporates industry best practice yet is dynamic enough to support client specific customization. Show less



Keypath Education

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Data Scientist

  • Nov 2014 - Mar 2016

  • Worked with business partners to understand their needs and developed forecast tool for spend and inquires in excel for their use. • Created a category model in SAS to predict the propensity of an individual to enroll or start which enabled the business to allocate resources more efficiently. • Partnered with individuals in IT department to implement model scoring while maintaining speed requirements. • Developed excel reports and Tableau workbooks that could be refreshed in a matter of minutes to track model performance for various clients. Show less



Hallmark Cards

• Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Statistician

  • Jun 2010 - Oct 2014

  • Worked with business partners to understand their needs and design experiments to answer key questions when no insight can be gained from historical data. • Performed segmentation analysis to understand differences within the network of retail sites and follow up analysis on whether these are actionable differences given business constraints. • Provided pricing models for products that had direct influence to planning product prices at the retail display. • Data Analysis and statistical modeling on designed & natural experiments with communication to stakeholders in the form of summary presentations containing relevant information tailored to the various corporate levels. • Delivered data driven recommendations for DMA level marketing campaigns and follow up analysis post campaign to determine impact and ROI. • Forecast demand for card products incorporating economic and calendar impacts. • Collaborated with fellow analysts within the company to distribute knowledge of best practice approaches and ensure consistent methodologies to recurring business questions. • Assimilated data from multiple sources making it consumable for analysis. Show less



University of Missouri- Columbia

• Graduate Instructor and Adjunct Professor

  • Aug 2007 - May 2010

  • Served as a graduate student instructor for math and statistics related courses while pursuing a master’s degree in statistics. • Prepared and delivered lectures over introductory statistical concepts and methods such as descriptive statistics, probability, random variables, sampling distributions, estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, regression, model building, ANOVA, and nonparametric methods. • Maintained an approachable yet professional relationship with students to encourage discussion and questions during lectures. • Proctored and graded student quizzes and exams then reported scores for over 180 students in a timely manner before aspiring to adjunct professor. Show less



Columbia College Math Center

• Columbia, Missouri Area

• Mathematics & Statistics Tutor

  • Jan 2004 - Dec 2007

  • Explained mathematical and statistical concepts to students whose coursework varied from beginning Algebra through Calculus II. • Effectively communicated with people of varying ages and backgrounds by tailoring the terminology to match the subject matter relevant to each individual student. • Helped students organize and retain information given in lectures while performing calculations and demonstrating processes for student learning and understanding. • Explained mathematical and statistical concepts to students whose coursework varied from beginning Algebra through Calculus II. • Effectively communicated with people of varying ages and backgrounds by tailoring the terminology to match the subject matter relevant to each individual student. • Helped students organize and retain information given in lectures while performing calculations and demonstrating processes for student learning and understanding.