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Data Scientist/Project Manager

Location:
Evanston, IL
Posted:
November 15, 2015

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Resume:

Jon Carlisle MSPA

***********@*****.***

847-***-****

www.linkedin.com/in/joncarlisle

Summary

Result-oriented, hands-on professional, with a balance of technical skills, business knowledge, people skills, and most importantly, a love for data. Successful record of driving change, evangelism, and collaboration. Creative, out of the box thinker, with strong leadership skills and capacity to work as a team player as well as independently. Excellent communication skills and a keen sense of attention to detail.

System/Data Modeling and Analysis Skills

A wide range of system and data modeling and analysis capabilities, acquired during my Master’s experiences: Competitive Intelligence, Predictive Analytics, Regression techniques, Linear regression, Discrete choice, Time series, Survival analysis, Decision Tree Learning, Machine Learning techniques, and networks.

Technical Skills & Technologies

●In-depth experience designing and developing RDBMS within the cloud and distributed environments.

●Experience with NoSQL and graph databases: MongoDB, Couchbase, and Neo4J.

●Experience with Data Warehousing concepts, data wrangling, and data visualization.

●Languages include SQL, C#, Python, R, JavaScript, PHP, and Java.

●Can conduct statistical analysis as well as interpret and evaluate statistical information using SPSS.

●Develop statistically sound and robust models used in predictive analytics (R & SAS).

●Tableau, Shiny, ArcGIS, Canopy, GitHub, Gephi, Inkscape, Amazon RDS, Oracle, DB2, SAS Studio, SOA, Web Services, SOAP, AJAX, jQuery, JavaScript, NetLogo, Django, BizTalk, Microsoft Stack, MS Project, JIRA

Professional Experience

Senior Project Manager

Rotary International

June 2012 - Present

●Fostered organizational innovation program including R & D for new social enterprises incubator.

●Improved data quality by migrating legacy systems to current technologies thus allowing the firm to gain more insightful information regarding membership leads.

●Saved organization over half million in annual savings with redesign of invoice for over 1M members across 37K Clubs. By automating the collection of semi-annual financial data, membership data are 60% cleaner.

●Automated paper based grants system representing an annual staff savings of almost one million. Grant data now joins other data sources to help create a unified customer profile and drive strategic decision-making.

●Raised awareness of brand through the delivery of Brand Asset Management System. Over 600 unique visits/day. Brand data offer another view into the unified customer profile.

Senior Technical Project Manager

InContext Solutions

February 2011 - April 2012

●Improved collaboration and communication between business and technical teams by introducing agile practices (daily stand-ups, iterative development cycles, retrospectives, poker planning, KanBan, etc.) and tools like JIRA and Confluence, and quarterly Innovation days.

●Managed cross-functional teams in the planning and delivery of multiple simultaneous data projects over the Internet for Fortune 100 companies.

●Analyzed team performance data and reduced time to deliver projects by over 50%.

●Moved from scale up approach to scale out approach by migrating databases and servers into the cloud.

Senior Data Architect

Facility Management SAAS

May 2008 - February 2011

●Increased ROI by 20% by implementing a data strategy that opened the doors for Fortune 500 Companies like Microsoft, to integrate with our firm’s facility management services.

●Improved data quality through the modernization of multiple offerings from ASP and VB6 to .NET. Conducted evaluation of C#, WCF, MVC, and BizTalk and communicated benefits to CFO and CIO.

Senior Developer

Freight Brokerage Firm

May 2006 - May 2008

●Prototyped logistics software for the cloud in an effort to scale out and move away from scaling up.

●Supported and heightened data quality in Electronic Data Interchange system and existing logistics software.

Senior Consultant

Consulting Firm

August 2005 - May 2006

●Converted Oracle RDBMS to SQL Server with various interfaces coded in C# for newly forged communication company. Data was 70% cleaner because of the migration.

Manager Information Systems

Global Immigration SAAS

March 2004 - June 2005

●Recruited, hired, and guided six employees in migrating online litigation SAAS from VB and Access to .NET and SQL Server. Evaluated and supervised vendors, overseas QA projects, and networking consultation, data strategy, and participated in senior management meetings.

●Reduced defect rate by 40% by establishing paired programming, documenting software processes, and implementing coding standards.

Earlier Experience (1997-2004)

Senior Consultant /Data Analyst/DBA/Programmer

Education

MS Predictive Analytics, Northwestern University, IL (2014-2015)

BA, Communications, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (1990-1994)

Certifications Training

Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse, UC Irvine extension (2015)

R Programming, Coursera (2014)

Digital Analytics Fundamentals, Google, (2013)

Web Developer Certification, DePaul University Chicago, IL (1999)



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