Resume

Overview

I am a curious, creative, and independent thinker, I am a helpful and thoughtful teammate, I take ownership and accountability for deliverables, and I take pride in finding and communicating meaningful insights from data.

Projects

Parks and Recreation Sentiment Analysis R Shiny App (2021)

  • Used dialogue data from the sitcom Parks and Recreation to explore character/show sentiment development over the series run

  • Incorporated web scraping of the IMDB webpage to provide additional context

  • Organized components into an interactive and visually appealing R Shiny application

Practicum: Wounded Warrior Project’s “Warriors to Work” Employment Program (2020-21)

  • Identify insights on successful Veteran employment associated with Veteran engagement in programs, physical/mental health, and additional metrics

  • Measure the employment readiness of Veterans by building a model based on individual profiles

  • Utilize R, Python, SAS, and GitLab throughout the project lifecycle for data preprocessing, project management, modeling and displaying results

Mathematics Association of America’s Preparation for Industrial Careers in Math

  • Partnered with a nonprofit residential substance abuse treatment program to enhance transportation logistics while alleviating administrative burden

  • Developed a routing and scheduling tool based on Google’s OR Tools Python package to determine optimal routes for a fleet of vans to transport residents to and from appointments

Skills

  • R: tidyverse, dplyr, ggplot, forecast, mlr, ranger, h2o, summarytools, tidymodels, survival, tidytext, shiny, shinydashboards, rmarkdown, blogdown

  • Python: pandas, numpy, scipy, matplotlib, plotly, sklearn, statsmodels

  • SQL, SAS (Certified Specialist), Tableau (Certified Desktop Specialist), Git/GitHub

Education

Institute for Advanced Analytics - Raleigh, NC - Master of Science in Analytics (2021)

  • Extensive coursework in statistical techniques, including regression, time series analysis, data mining, text analytics, machine learning, optimization, and others

  • Eight-month Practicum project in team of five with an industry sponsor using real-world data

University of North Carolina-Asheville - Asheville, NC - Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics (2020)

  • Graduated summa cum laude, with distinction in Mathematics

  • Coursework in real analysis, linear and abstract algebra, numerical analysis, differential equations, algorithms, data structures, software engineering, and others

Work Experience

Server, Olive Garden (Oct. 2019 - Mar. 2020)

  • Developed teamwork, communication, time management and multitasking skills

Research Assistant, University of North Carolina-Asheville (May 2019 - Aug. 2019)

  • Implemented numerical methods for solving differential equations in a research project modeling ATP Synthase