Data Professional Experience

DATA SCIENTIST/ANALYST

Using data analysis to create actionable insights for business decisions

PERFORMANCE PROFILE/PERFORMANCE SUMMARY

Data scientist with proficient software development skills: Python, Jupyter Notebooks, R, Git, and SQL.

Big data mining background with ETL techniques to create predictive models.

Demonstrated experience in weather forecasting and analysis; data management, data mining, reporting, queries.

Extensive communications and presentation skills; experience with board members and key management.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Programming: Python, Perl, R, VBA, and web development including JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, and HTML

Data Intelligence/Analytics/Reporting: Data mining, ETL techniques, and predictive analytics using Python, Perl, R, SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and additional experience with SPSS and SAS

Visual Display: Tableau, Matplotlib, D3, and Microsoft Xcel

Network Administration: Linux server administration

Software: MS Office Suite: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook; ArcGIS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Logical Fusion LLC – Greater Denver Area October 2016 – Present

Owner/Data Scientist

Founder of Logical Fusion Data Analytics Provider: https://github.com/rbpdqdat

Created predictive modes utilizing R and Python programming languages.

Worked with AWS to create web based data analytics services for clients: EC2, S3, SES, ELB, Lambda

Xcel Energy - Denver, CO September 2007- August 2016

Senior Energy Analyst / Meteorologist

Provided application support and development for energy supply requirements. Lead programmer for the development of applications to processes analytical data for energy market analysts.

Lead program developer in corporate initiative to reduce wind forecast error during high impact weather events. Statistical analysis provided forecast improvements that resulted more than $4 million in corporate savings within the first year of implementation.

Provided forecasts for short, medium, and long-term weather, energy demand, and wind generation for Xcel Energy service territory, which includes the PSCO, SPP, and MISO balancing authorities.

Developed web API utilizing PostgreSQL and full stack development: https://pdqdat.com/query/

Developed strategies for process improvements using crontab, python, SQL, JAVA, Perl, Excel, VBA, JavaScript, php, and jQuery.

Regularly communicated operations risks to CFO, VP, and directors, and trading group.

Decision support utilizing historical data analysis and forecasts for multi-million dollar over the counter weather derivatives contracts and supplying forecasts for FTR auctions.

Programmatically developed tools to monitor and evaluate hourly load forecasts/market bids for more than 19,000 MW of load.

Programmed web API to analyze hourly data points for more than 7,000 MW of wind data to improve wind forecast accuracy in real-time.

American Electric Power (AEP) - Columbus, OH October 2004-August 2007

Meteorologist

Forecasted weather for energy demand forecasts for AEP territory’s operating companies.

Provided weather information to trading group to assist in trading in PJM, MISO, SPP, ERCOT, and other energy markets; weather information includes the forecast of winds, temperatures, dew-points, tropical features, and severe weather.

Created Perl program to extract weather data from NOAA first order weather stations and used GRADS to plot GFS weather model data.

Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC - NOAA) - Boulder, Colorado August 2003-September 2004

Professional Research Assistant

Wrote FORTRAN programs a UNIX environment to manipulate datasets of daily and monthly data for over 15,000 weather station observation sites for varying periods of record. Used Interactive Math and Statistical Library (IMSL) routines to perform statistical calculations and clustering analysis on precipitation data: Rotated Principal Component Analysis. Created graphical output by utilizing IDL, GRADS, and ArcGIS.

Strategic Weather Services /Planalytics - Greater Philadelphia Area February 1999- August 2001

Weather Forecaster & Research Scientist Provided short-term & long-range weather forecast products to a variety of customers and create brief bulletins for daily weather conditions.

Supplied current weather conditions in severe or threatening conditions to clients and created graphical output for current and forecasted weather conditions.

Created graphical verification statistics with ArcGIS for dozens of locations over multiple years.

Citigroup - Chicago, IL June 2003-August 2003

Meteorology Intern

Provided analyst/broker support for weather products and updated internal materials. Worked with Jon Davis and Mark Russo in the Citigroup weather department. Updated client list serves and provided guidance for tropical impacts on Florida Citrus during the summer tropical season.

EDUCATION

University of Northern Illinois - M.S., Geography, Applied Meteorology/Climatology-2003

University of Nebraska-Lincoln - B.S, Meteorology-1999

CERTIFICATIONS

Coursera Data Science Certification (Johns Hopkins University): 12-2016

Udacity - Data Analyst Nanodegree: 9-2017

CONFERENCES COMMITTEES

AWSome Day Denver – Amazon Web Services Training: 2017

First Annual Rocky Mountain Datacon: 2016

Speaker: International Conference for Energy and Meteorology: 2015,

‘Identifying and Quantifying the Risk of Weather on Wind Generation’

Team-Lead - Xcel Day-of-Service: 2014; Volunteer: 2013, 2015

American Meteorological Society Energy Committee Member: 2009-2012

American Meteorological Society National Conference: 1998, 2001, 2009-2014, 2016

Chair & Town Hall Panelist: American Meteorological Society Energy Meteorology Short Course: 2011

Free and Open Source Software 4 Geospatial: 2011

Speaker: Pattern Recognition Technologies: 2009, Attendee: 2011

Speaker: WeatherBug Energy Conference: 2009

MDA EarthSat Energy Conference-Las Vegas: 2006

NOAA Annual Climate and Predictions Workshop: 2005-2006

American Meteorological Society Applied Climatology Conference: 2002

Speaker: Midwestern Regional Crop Processing Conference: 2002

Intergraph GeoSpatial World Poster Presenter: 2002

AWARD HONORS

Placed second in the Intergraph GeoSpatial World: 2002 International Student Poster Competition-‘How Weather Affects the

Migration Patterns of the Soybean Aphid: Using GeoMedia to incorporate spatial migration with weather patterns’

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