Laura Poff

Consultant Advisor at Bytecode IO, Inc
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(386) 825-5501
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Eugene, US

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Experience

    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Consultant Advisor
      • Jan 2021 - Present

      * Provide advising and mentorship to other consultants at Bytecode * Advocate for consultant happiness * Guide consultants on career path

    • Senior Business and Data Analyst
      • Aug 2019 - Present

      * Certified Looker Developer * Certified Looker Trainer * Onboarded 45 companies from start up to enterprise phase across multiple industries from e-commerce to healthcare onto Looker * Technical training for more than 300 new Looker users - Developers and Business Users * LookML and dashboard development to best meet each company's business requirements * Managed large scale Looker roll-out projects * Part of 1st and 2nd place team in Looker Hackathon in 2019 and 2020 *… Show more * Certified Looker Developer * Certified Looker Trainer * Onboarded 45 companies from start up to enterprise phase across multiple industries from e-commerce to healthcare onto Looker * Technical training for more than 300 new Looker users - Developers and Business Users * LookML and dashboard development to best meet each company's business requirements * Managed large scale Looker roll-out projects * Part of 1st and 2nd place team in Looker Hackathon in 2019 and 2020 * Worked on 100% remote team

    • United States
    • Information Technology & Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Data Scientist
      • Apr 2015 - Mar 2019

      Franklin, TN * Maintained and enhanced data pipeline for transforming raw claims to customer reports and insights * Helped identify on average 40% and up to 60% annual savings for customers based on anomaly testing and market pricing. * Designed and developed anomaly testing in Redshift etl process based on multiple factors on claim lines * Used Monte Carlo simulation written in Python and Elasticsearch to prove that matching claims to our curated data was possible (used in patent) * Designed… Show more * Maintained and enhanced data pipeline for transforming raw claims to customer reports and insights * Helped identify on average 40% and up to 60% annual savings for customers based on anomaly testing and market pricing. * Designed and developed anomaly testing in Redshift etl process based on multiple factors on claim lines * Used Monte Carlo simulation written in Python and Elasticsearch to prove that matching claims to our curated data was possible (used in patent) * Designed, developed, and tested claims processing Python module to match each claim to Genetic Testing categories using various fields (used in patent) * Designed machine learning pipeline in Python and Redshift to match claims to genetic testing domains * Designed and developed Kibana and Google Sheets dashboards and Business Intelligence (BI tools) to identify trends in Genetic Testing * Contributed to company wide repository for common data functions used in python * Supported internal customers for presentations, white papers, and published research regarding trends in the Genetic Testing market * Designed python script for creating confidence intervals on sparse or convenience samples * Designed and developed automated statistical tests in Python to identify the same providers in different datasets using claims fields where 1000s of providers needed to be compared Show less

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Data Scientist
      • Apr 2013 - Apr 2015

      Nashville, TN * Used Holt-Winters time series analysis in SAS tool JMP to create advanced alerts and monitors for server metrics. * Using historical data, able to alert on a blackout incident 8 hours before, while current alerts gave a 5 minute warning * Created a webservice using Jenkins and VMware for a test environment that produces the same distribution of response times as observed in production * Coordinated the effort to stand up a test environment to isolate service calls * Developed test… Show more * Used Holt-Winters time series analysis in SAS tool JMP to create advanced alerts and monitors for server metrics. * Using historical data, able to alert on a blackout incident 8 hours before, while current alerts gave a 5 minute warning * Created a webservice using Jenkins and VMware for a test environment that produces the same distribution of response times as observed in production * Coordinated the effort to stand up a test environment to isolate service calls * Developed test plans for the isolated test environment * BOLD Award: designed to acknowledge and recognize team members throughout Technology not only for outstanding efforts and accomplishments, but also for demonstrating and encompassing the Asurion Core Values

    • Data and Metric Analyst
      • Nov 2011 - Apr 2013

      Greater Nashville Area, TN * Developed Operations Review for IT department * Significantly improved Balanced Scorecard by implementing best practices in visual data display and through automation using JMP statistical tool * Worked in several cross-functional teams to improve data quality, define processes, and define Key Performance Indicators * Facilitated meetings… Show more * Developed Operations Review for IT department * Significantly improved Balanced Scorecard by implementing best practices in visual data display and through automation using JMP statistical tool * Worked in several cross-functional teams to improve data quality, define processes, and define Key Performance Indicators * Facilitated meetings of data analysts from across IT in knowledge sharing sessions * Began a JMP User Group for Asurion

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Research Assistant
      • Aug 2009 - Nov 2011

      Greater Nashville Area, TN * Used TraCI (Traffic Control Interface), which bridges transportation and wireless network simulators * Trained surrogate models to describe the physical system * Used optimization in order to guide decision-making * Presentation at Transportation Research Board annual meeting 2011

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Graduate Student Researcher
      • Sep 2007 - Jun 2009

      Davis, CA * Designed and Administered an internet survey of Sacramento area commuters * Collected and cleaned data for 12,000+ respondents using scripts * Led a team of 3 undergraduate researchers * Statistical analysis on survey responses, especially related to gender bias in transportation behavior such as mode choice * Research funded by CalTrans * Helped develop a framework for multitasking/polychronic behavior * “A Conceptual Typology of Multitasking Behavior and Polychronicity… Show more * Designed and Administered an internet survey of Sacramento area commuters * Collected and cleaned data for 12,000+ respondents using scripts * Led a team of 3 undergraduate researchers * Statistical analysis on survey responses, especially related to gender bias in transportation behavior such as mode choice * Research funded by CalTrans * Helped develop a framework for multitasking/polychronic behavior * “A Conceptual Typology of Multitasking Behavior and Polychronicity Preferences” published in Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research 2011 Show less

    • Secondary Mathematics Educator
      • Aug 2005 - May 2007

      Chattanooga, TN

Education

  • Vanderbilt University
    Master of Science - MS, Risk and Reliability Engineering and Management
    2009 - 2011
  • University of California, Davis
    Master of Science - MS, Transportation Technology and Policy
    2007 - 2009
  • The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics and Secondary Education
    2001 - 2005

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