RESUME
During my career as an R and D Chemist and Technical Marketing Specialist with three well-known, multinational corporations, I gradually morphed into a zealot for Data Analysis, Visualization, and Prescriptive Analytics. I am interested in contract positions as a Data Scientist, Data Analyst or a similar quantitative role to help companies implement data-driven business decisions.
Summary
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Analysis and Visualization Software Expertise
Tableau 10, SAS, JMP, R, GitHub, Access, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, Visio, Word, VBA, Azure, gretl, SQL
Subject Matter Expertise
Professional
History
Sr. Data Analyst
Edumedics
​Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
​Analyzed Electronic Medical Records and prepared reports using R, Excel, Google Sheets, Google Docs, and Navigator MD. Introduced Exploratory Data Analysis using SAS JMP and Tableau.
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Principal Analyst
Crucial Connection LLC
July 2010 - Present
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Provide Experimental Design, Product Development, Technical Marketing and Data Analysis to small to mid-market enterprises.
Operations Analyst | Adjunct Instructor | Consultant
Technology Staffing Companies
2002 - 2014
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Project Manager, local coatings manufacturer
Provided Technology and Scientific Consulting to Industrial coatings manufacturer. Projects included network upgrades, Data Analysis, Statistical Experimental Design. -
IT Security Intern, Yum! Brands, Inc.
Performed enterprise-level network administrator duties for multiple U.S. and offshore domains in Windows and UNIX environments. Also conceived and implemented a change in Information Security group standard practice which doubled end-user compliance from 40% to 80% within a four week period. (Left with 600 others in a general RIF prior to sale of two of their five brands.) -
Travel Technician, Kindred Healthcare
Installed, upgraded and tested servers, routers, switches and other hardware at Kindred healthcare facilities throughout the continental U.S. -
Adjunct Instructor, Brown Mackie College
Taught Introduction to Finance and MOAC 70-294: Planning, Implementing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure. -
Operations Analyst, Humana, Inc.
Supported networked and remote users by diagnosing and resolving hardware and software issues and advising users on appropriate corrective actions.
Predictive Analytics, Prescriptive Analytics, Modeling, Technical marketing, Chemistry, Biology, Statistics, Experimental Design, Testing, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Training, Technical Writing
Soft Skills
Critical Thinking, Decision Support, Communication, Story Telling, Project Management and Planning, Technical Presentation (list available on request)
Languages
German (Goethe-Institut Mittlestufe Zeugnis)
Professional working proficiency
Technical Marketing Manager - Coatings Resins, North America
AkzoNobel
2000 - 2001
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​Planned and managed the marketing activities of the Coatings Resins Business Unit in North America. Activities included new product introductions, training sales staff and distributors, writing technical literature.
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Analyzed cost, margins and profitability for the entire $60 million product line which consisted of 175 products in 23 distinct product categories.
(Position was eliminated when business unit was sold to Nuodex shortly after relocation to Louisville.)
Systems Consultant
Weirton Steel
1998 - 1999
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Planned and led the evaluation, testing and upgrading of a large, distributed control, process automation system as part of a $12 million project for a $1 billion manufacturing operation.
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Performed risk assessment, test plan development, test implementation and results evaluation.
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Maintained an MS Access database and MS Project tracking for the largest part of the overall project.
Technical Marketing Specialist
Bayer Corp.
1980 - 1997
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Made heavy use of Analytics and Experimental Design to provide development and technical marketing support for a $40 million, basic urethane raw material used in a wide variety of biomedical, defense, aerospace, coating and elastomer applications. Some of this work resulted in three U.S. patents and related foreign patents.
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Saved $127,000 per year in QC costs by using Analytics and Experimental Design to replace several proprietary QC tests with a single reactivity test.
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After two other groups had failed, used Statistical Experiment Designs to developed a commercial product from waste residues, saving $750,000 in incineration costs alone.
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Entered a new market with a mature product line and grew sales to $1,000,000 annually.
(Left during a prolonged RIF from over 2000 employees to approximately 800 and was subsequently recruited by AkzoNobel.)
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Education
Sullivan University
Microsoft Network Engineer
(summa cum laude) 4.00 QPA
The Microsoft Network Engineer Program graduates individuals with the technical expertise needed to manage advanced, complex networking systems.​
Duquesne University
MBA - Finance and Management Information Systems
(cum laude) 3.85 QPA
Full concentration in both Finance and Management Information Systems. Elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, honor society of AACSB schools of business.
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Polymer Chemistry
Graduate coursework in Polymer Chemistry and Physical Chemistry of High Polymers
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Allegheny College
B.S. Chemistry
Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry from American Chemical Society accredited school. Included significant additional, senior-level coursework in Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics beyond degree requirements.