Work Experience
SYSTEMS ANALYST | DIRECTv, EL SEGUNDO, CA (2022-present)
Currently serving as Systems Analyst with the DIRECTV Media Advertising Technology Group.
Demonstrated ability to assess business objectives, and to provide guidance and solutions in alignment with target architecture.
Subject matter expert on audience-building business processes and technical solutions for addressable advertising.
Oversee data curation processes from both internal (first-party) and external (third-party) data sources.
Provide production support on all audience-creation systems through root cause analysis. Coordinate cross-team efforts to increase data efficiencies and improve data quality.
Develop data validation plans, QA procedures, and test cases.
Strong written and verbal communication skills. Authored new project proposals, user guides, knowledge base articles, architectural diagrams, interface agreements, and production support procedural guides.
Technology Stack: Snowflake, SQL, Looker, AWS, Pivot Tables, Jira/Confluence, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Teams, Slack
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE MANAGER | byzick & company, Redding, CA (2019-2021)
Assisted client corporate stakeholders in business decisions by providing interpretation of financial data.
Innovated processes for managing $12M in annual Accounts Payable, including orchestrating transition to paperless.
Secured over $60K in savings and recovered funds through expense analysis and account audits.
Developed bill management system that reduced late fees and bounced checks by 95% year-over-year.
Developed training methods and procedural guides that increased efficiency of onboarding new hires.
ministry consultant | the evangelical catholic, Madison, WI (2018-2019)
Provided leadership coaching to church staff liaisons, including strategic planning, recruitment, mentoring, scheduling, logistics, and administration.
PROGRAM DIRECTOR | St. Charles Church, Arlington VA (2017-2018); St. Bernadette Church, Springfield VA (2010-2017); St. John the Apostle Church, Leesburg VA (2008-2010)
Coordinated multiple educational, social, and service programs impacting 1000’s of youth and adult church members.
Education
DATA SCIENCE PROGRAm | Bethel School of Technology (2021)
ANALYTICAL SKILLS: Linear Regression | Decision Trees | Random Forests | K-Means/K-Nearest Neighbor | Chi-Square | ANOVA | t-Tests | Logistic Regression | Hypothesis Testing
TECHNICAL SKILLS: Tableau | SQL | NoSQL | AWS | Python (Packages: Pandas, NumPy, Sci-Kit Learn, MLxtend, Seaborn, Matplotlib, Stats, Difflib) | R (Packages: Ggplot2, Corrplot, Stats, Dplyr, Tidyr)
FINAL PROJECT: Restaurant Point of Sale Analysis
Conducted analysis on point of sale data from chain of 10 restaurants to examine pre- and post-COVID sales trends, menu item correlations, and delivery vs. dine-in ordering preferences.
Wrote a Python program to automatically synchronize menu dictionaries across all 10 datasets, utilizing Difflib package to recognize string similarities within a defined threshold.
Implemented Apriori algorithm (MLxtend Python package) to identify frequent menu item pairings via Market Basket Analysis.
Implemented Chi-Square test (Stats Python package) to identify menu preference differences between delivery and dine-in.
Created presentation graphics in Tableau to visualize results of the above analyses with emphasis on comparisons between restaurant branches.
View in-depth project details and code samples here.
MATHEMATICS, BACHELOR OF SCIENCE | UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN (2003)
Notable Coursework: Computer Science 125 (Programming), Mathematical & Symbolic Logic
SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, MASTER OF ARTS | MOUNT SAINT MARY’S UNIVERSITY (2008)
Includes substantial supporting coursework in Philosophy
ADDITIONAL COURSEWORK
Database Management Systems | Foothill College (2023)
Financial Accounting | West Los Angeles College (2020)
Managerial Accounting | Wes Los Angeles College (2020)
Additional Skills
Quickbooks | Google Workspace | Technical Writing | Team Leadership | Public Speaking