DATA/BUSINESS ANALYST

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

A motivated business analyst with 2+ years of experience.

Determine operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats.

Analyze data using statistical techniques and providing reports.

Develop and implement databases and data collection systems.

Improve systems by studying current practices, designing modifications.

Monitor project progress by tracking activity; resolving problems; publishing progress reports; recommending actions.

Maintain user confidence and protect operations by keeping information confidential.

Perform daily, weekly, and monthly reviews and analyses of current processes using operational metrics and reports.

Understand and communicate the financial and operational impact of any changes

Suggest changes to senior management using analytics to support your recommendations. Actively participate in the implementation of approved changes.

Create informative, actionable, and repeatable reporting that highlights relevant business trends and opportunities for improvement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: Python, R, SQL, HTML, CSS, Stata, JavaScript, Angular.

Operating Systems: iOS, Windows, Linux.

Tools: MS Office, Tableau, Power BI, Sublime Text, SQLite Studio, SEO, GitHub, Jupyter Notebook, Adobe Creative Cloud, SPSS, Canva, PyCharm, OneNote.

Proficiencies:

Software Design, Analysis, Teamwork, Software Maintenance, Process Improvement

Big Picture Thinking, Work Well Under Pressure, Communication, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Relationship Building

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

Database Administrator Intern, Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Des Moines, Iowa May 2021 – May 2022

●Extracted data from various sources to perform data analysis and engineering a user-friendly forecasting machine learning model with the Performance and Content teams.

●Implemented machine and deep learning models, like networks (keras) models in Python.

●Completed maintenance on existing programs and supported engineering processes on MyWellmark & Jiva applications.

Marketing Intern, Switch and Grow, Hyattsville, Maryland June 2019 – August 2020

●Built strong relationships with each customer, inviting them in for meetings to go over their options, including additional add-on excursions that added value to the overall travel experience through providing clear and consistent marketing demonstrations.

●Attended meetings with account managers to conduct research in preparations for the events as well as to run quality assurance audits on the data collected during the event

●Leveraged social media platforms to strategize and market events which increased attendance by approximately 10%.

RESEARCH AND ANALYTICAL PROJECTS

Determining Life Expectancy from Health Factors December 2020 – January 2021

●Gathered, cleaned, and explored data to conduct statistical analysis and hypothesis testing.

●Conducted multiple linear and stepwise regressions to determine the effect of health factors on life expectancy.

●Wrote a final research paper with R Markdown to communicate the analysis process, statistical tests, and results with various regression and residual plots, using ggplot.

Predicting Income Level from Social Factors December 2020 – January 2021

●Cleaned data to deal with missing, duplicate, and biased values with Pandas, scikit-learn and NumPy packages.

●Performed Decision Tree and KNN classification to analyze the model’s predictive ability.

●Used Jupyter Notebook to conduct exploratory data analysis, cleaning, mining, and visualizing.

Causality of Trade on Income February 2020 – May 2020

●Gathered documented datasets on poverty and trade levels and conducted data wrangling in Stata.

● Ameliorated datasets to conduct multiple linear regression and wrote a final research process describing the regression results.

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

●Full ride scholarship for High school September 2015 - May 2017

●Full ride scholarship for Bachelor's Degree August 2018 – May 2022

●Member of Computer Science Society September 2019 - May 2021

●Member of the Black Student Union (BSU) September 2018 - May 2021

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, Luther College & Brandon University, USA & Canada August 2018 - May 2022

Major: Data Science, Minor: Business Management.

United World College Red Cross Nordic, Flekke, Norway September 2015 – May 2017

International Baccalaureate Diploma.

Languages: Amharic (Fluent), Arabic (Fluent), English (Fluent),Tigrinya (Fluent).

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