Scott Slawin **** Deer Run Road Gurnee IL ***** 847-***-****
Cell: 708-***-**** Email: adxsvo@r.postjobfree.com
OBJECTIVE
To leverage information as to deliver measurable business value, providing competitive advantage. To optimize performance and maximize assets. To answer questions that require multidisciplinary approach, drawing on tools from machine learning and data mining.
EDUCATION
MBA, Executive Program
Lake Forest School of Management, Lake Forest, IL 60045 Coursework in Finance, Applied Bayesian Forecasting and Time Series Analysis Stuart School of Business, Chicago, IL 60606
Bachelor of Science, Double Major: Chemistry and Physics Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL 60625 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Allstate Insurance Company 5/2001 { Current
Allstate Property and Casualty - Customer Experience, Northbrook, IL (Data and Analytics) 2018-2019
• Developed fully automated data management system using Python using enterprise servers and scheduler.
{ Processing ACES, Renewal, New customer, Closed Loop survey to name a few.
{ Processing open ended text elds using an NLP vended solution.
{ Data QC and automated corrections.
{ Email noti cation and logs
{ Hourly, weekly, and monthly jobs all controlled using Python and an enterprise schedulder (ESP) running on an enterprise virtual machine (runs 24/7)
• Developed forecast models for for Allstate PNC and Allstate Financial, setting APS Goals using R, implement- ing Arima methods.
• Ran analysis for random sampling of survey invitations.
• Developed dashboards using R Shiny on enterprise Linux servers. Developed to run scenarios tapping into the volumes of data from the various survey instruments showing meta data and graphical representations on the y.
Allstate Financial Technology, Northbrook, IL (Information Analyst) 2009-2018
• Collaborated with business stakeholders in de ning and delivering requirements for Business Information.
{ Standard Reports, OLAP, Scorecards, Dashboards, KPIs, Metrics, Alerts, etc.
• Made use of Analytical Tools and Applications to help de ne a clear linkage between business strategies and core business processes.
{ Trend Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Optimization, Forecasting, Simulation, Predictive Modeling, etc.
• Collaborated with Architecture and Data, on large scale projects for reporting. This would include consulting on system analysis, and bringing together business and technical system processes and procedures. Allstate Marketing and Consumer Insights (Manager) 2001-2009
• Developed marketing mix optimization models that are designed to determine the optimal allocation of budget across marketing programs
{ Constructed statistical and econometric models that describe market dynamics.
{ Developed simulation models for uncovering competitive dynamics.
• Management of the Corporate Do Not Call and Do Not Mail initiative.
{ Corporate initiative to comply with the FTC / FCC DNC regulations. Provided a DNC Solution for internal and external client / prospect-speci c list management and scrubbing capabilities, sta training on correct compliance procedures, and creation of corporate DNC policy.
{ Acted as point of contact for Federal and State agencies on behalf of Allstate.
{ Focal point for Allstate's internal information security.
{ Insure compliance with Federal and State regulations governing the transfer of costumer data.
• Data Warehouse
{ Black belt for Six Sigma initiative to consolidate all of sales reporting for Allstate Financial.
{ Participated as a data administration representative to provide coordination of data models and data quality.
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Motorola 11/1993 { 5/2001
Commercial, Government and Industrial Solutions Sector (CGISS), Schaumberg, IL (Senior Environmental Engineer)
• Project manager for large on-going groundwater clean-up project.
{ Responsible for project planning; scheduling, risk assessment, budgeting, contractor coordination, strat- egy and interaction with various government agencies.
{ Designed and implemented successful strategies to mitigate the spread of groundwater contamination.
Conducted groundwater Fate and Transport study using commercially available software.
Remediated a 300 acre site using IEPA's Tier Approach to Cleanup Objective (TACO) methodolo- gies.
{ Cross-functional teaming with Legal, Public Relations and Finance.
• Successfully completed many remedial activities - national and international.
• Other responsibilities included:
{ Managed activities for the Schaumburg campus relating to water resources and hazardous waste man- agement. Have maintained full compliance with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDG) and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA).
{ Developed domestic and international Environmental Due Diligence programs for CGISS worldwide.
{ Conducted compliance audits at other facilities worldwide.
{ Excellent working knowledge of environmental regulations on the Federal, State and Local levels. Mostardi-Platt and Associates 3/1991 { 11/1993
Air Permitting and Hazardous Waste Manifesting (Sta Engineer)
• Project Manager - Responsible for securing air permits from the IEPA for clientele.
• Project Engineer - Generated air sampling reports for submittable to the IEPA.
{ Developed programs to expedite complex data reduction, equipment calibrations, and report generation.
Permits were usually for manufacturing, power generators and co-generators.
{ Redesigned all schematic support material used in most report formulations for various test methodolo- gies. Designed process ow diagrams and oor plans using CADD, that were later used in air permitting documents.
{ Conducted air-modeling studies using commercially available software.
{ Provide technical and analytical support for in the eld mobile units, used for on-site multi-gas stack testing. Usually for large commercial power stations. COMPUTING SKILLS
Pro cient with the following:
• Windows
{ Batch processing
• Unix
{ Debian, Red Hat, Solaris, and other varations.
{ Sed, Awk, Grep, FTP, Regular Expressions, Vi, Putty
{ K-Shell programming
• Database
{ Oracle (SQLPLUS, SQL Loader, PLSQL, UI tools like SQLDeveloper, Toad, Excel/ODBC)
{ MS SQL (SQL Server Management Studio, Command Line)
{ MySql (Workbench, Command Line)
{ MS OLAP (Proclarity and Excel as front ends)
• Scripting
{ R and R Shiny
{ Python
{ SQL
{ Unix utilities and shell scripting
{ Java (Eclipse, DrJava, Command Line)
{ Perl
{ Fortran (Undergrad work only)
{ VBA for Applications (Pro cient with VB Macros in Excel, Access and MS Word)
{ LATEX
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• Statistics
{ Strong statistical knowledge in Econometric, OLS, GLM, MVA, Bayesian and others.
{ R (Statistical programming language) Experience with:
For reporting and dashboards I've relied upon Markdown, Knitter and Shiny using R.
R has been used with Predictive Analytics, Data Analysis, Data Exploration
Also with Forecasting, Simulations, Econometrics, Bayesian, Data Quality.
Very good working knowledge of many packages too numerous to list. (Most used are PLYR, CARET, Lattice, GGPlot2 and VCD.)
In day to day data analysis, I connect to Oracle, SQL Server, CSV and XLSX with R.
{ SAS
Very good knowledge of the various Predictive Analytic and Forecasting PROCs.
Enterprise Miner and Command line. (Unix and Windows environments).
Data exploration and manipulation.
• Document Generation
{ MS O ce Products (Excel, Word, Power Point, Visio)
{ LATEX
{ Lyx
• Reporting and Data Visualization
{ R Statistical Software
{ Tableau
{ Business Objects (Full suite of tools: Crystal Reports, Xcelsius, Universe Designer, Webi etc.)
• Others
{ OpenLayers
An opensource javascript library to load, display and render maps from multiple sources on web pages.
{ MatLab, Octave, AutoCadd, MathCadd
{ Gimp, Adobe Dreamweaver and Fireworks
OS Database Scripting Statistics Document Generation Visualization Windows Oracle Perl R MS O ce Products R
Unix (Vi, Sed, Awksearch, Grep) MS SQL Python SAS LATEX Tableau MySql Java Lyx Business Objects
MSOLAP Fortran
VBA
Keywords/Phrases:
Analytics, Big Data, Data Visualization, High Performance Analytics, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, Predictive, Forecasting