Data Analyst

Walter Wilson

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Data Analyst with skills in Excel, VBA, and Python developed through 3 years of academic research experience in research groups at Yale and CERN. I have strong analytical problem solving abilities, team experience, and intellectual curiosity preparing me to dive deep into organizational challenges with analytics based solutions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Veeva Systems Fort Washington, PA

Data Steward (Temporary: Pathfinders, Inc.) August – December 2021

●Verified the current versions of various data elements through research on the phone or over the internet.

●Applied any corrections or new entries to the core database.

●Documented all actions taken with the required notation.

Argonne National Laboratory Lemont, IL

Summer Research Participant May – August 2019

●Modeled the velocity of galaxies in dark matter halos using Monte Carlo simulations in Python.

●Evaluated the results of these simulations against observed values to determine the accuracy of the models.

Wright Laboratory, Yale University New Haven, CT

Particle Physics Undergraduate Researcher January 2018 – May 2019

●Integrated Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) circuits into the prototype Monolithic Silicon CMOS (Chronopixel) detector in order to reduce the noise of the system.

●Developed the data pipeline between the FPGA and the on-site computer using Python.

●Observed how the prototype could be tested and implemented at the main CERN campus during a 3 month assignment in Switzerland.

Cosmology Undergraduate Researcher May – August 2017

●Helped start the data processing for the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Telescope.

●Established the groundwork for an algorithm that would detect and flag abnormalities in CHIME data.

●Succeeded in writing code that could identify abnormal changes of the Signal to Noise Ratio.

DATA PROJECTS

Single Page Web Scraping Application https://github.com/wawilson810/web-scraping-challenge

Role: Sole author Tools: HTML, Bootstrap, MongoDB, Flask, Pandas, Splinter

This project showcased developing a dynamic website application to scrape data about Mars and display it.

Python Data Visualization

https://github.com/ErinBuday/Project-1-COVID-19-Economic-Impacts

Role: Contributor (Global Index Analysis) Tools: Python, Jupyter Notebook, Pandas, Matplotlib

This project investigated data analysis of the economic impacts of the COVID-19 virus.

EDUCATION

YALE UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science, Physics (Intensive)

August 2015 - May 2019

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Certificate, Data Science

March 2022 – September 2022

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Python, JavaScript ES6+, HTML5, SQL, NoSQL

Applications: GitHub, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GIT, Flask, AWS, Tableau

Tools: Excel, Databasing, Pandas, Matplotlib, Jupyter Notebook, Splinter, Tensorflow, Scikit learn

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