Data Science and Academic Mentor

Last updated on April **rd, ****

Randy Wong

Address:**** ******* ***** *******, ** 53713

Email: **********@*****.***/

Phone: 608-***-****

Languages:

English (reading/writing/spoken)

Cantonese (spoken)

Japanese (4 years highschool, 3 years college)

Employment History

SEP 2023 - Present Academic Mentor (UW-Madison CAE) Title: Peer Mentor cae.ls.wisc.edu/

Responsibilities in this Role Included:

● Lead review sessions pertaining to math, biology, physics, and data science.

● Create workshops to aid students in learning about mindset, healthy habits, and dealing with stressors.

● Create separate curriculum to aid students in mastering required material. Achievements in this Role Included:

● Greatly improved the test score of students from Ds to As

● Received Outstanding Academic Mentor Award

● Created a self-authoring workshop for students

SEP 2023 - May 2024 Peer Mentor CS220 (UW-Madison)www.cs.wisc.edu/

Title: Peer Mentor

Responsibilities in this Role Included:

● Lead labs of 25+ students to engage students in material.

● Assist students with understanding data analytics and python programming.

● Assist students in a walk-in office environment to complete projects. Achievements in this Role Included:

● Received 1 to 2 thank you letters from students every week.

● Assisted in editing perfect midterm exams.

● Succesfully lead classrooms without TA or professor assistance.

MAY 2022 - SEP 2022 Thermo Fisher Scientific (Middleton)

Title: Sample Coordinator (Summer Temp) www.thermofisher.com

Responsibilities in this Role Included:

● Work with team members to ensure quality and timely delivery of services.

● Process, track, and maintain the integrity of samples in the system and warehouse.

● Follow cGMP guidelines and protocols to ensure quality of work in a lab environment.

Achievements in this Role Included:

● Created a mini-database to cut processing time by over 50%.

● Moved a 2 year project to the next stage in just 3 months.

● Trained 8+ new employees to speed up delivery of services.

SEP 2017 - SEP 2021 Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD-Middleton)

Title: Sr. Sample Coordinator www.ppd.com

Responsibilities in this Role Included:

● Coordinate with various clients and multiple teams to set up stability studies.

● Process, track, and maintain the integrity of samples in the system and warehouse.

● Follow cGMP guidelines and protocols to ensure quality of work in a lab environment.

● Additional: Analyze internal data to predict workload and cycle times. Achievements in this Role Included:

● Created an organization system that increased my workload by 100%.

● Achieved “Senior” title after one promotion cycle.

● Automated data analysis using Python, machine learning algorithms, and Excel to help management predict workload and schedule the work accordingly. Cutting data analysis from 40 hours down to 2 minutes.

Professional Development

● PyCon 2018 – Learned basic programming language of python and networked with AI researchers to learn about machine learning and data analysis.

● Big Data Wisconsin 2018 – Attended various talks and seminars on big data concerning Wisconsin businesses and communities to learn about data integrity, ethicality, and processing.

● PyCon 2019 – Further developed Python Programming Skills with Pandas. Interviewed with Microsoft to help improve their Microsoft Azure Notebook platform.

● SciPy 2019 – Attended various talks and seminars to learn more about how Python and other programming languages are utilized in the scientific and healthcare field. Certification(s)

● Google Data Analytics (OCT2021) - Completed 8 courses developed by Google. Acquired competency in tools and platforms including Excel, SQL, Tableau, and R. Acquired skills in data preparation, processing, analysis, and sharing data for thoughtful action.

Education

SEP2022 - MAY2025 Major in Data Science at UW-Madison GPA: 3.826

FEB2024 Big Data Systems (SQL, Cassandra, Spark, BigQuery, Pytorch, HDFS, Kafka)

SEP2021 - MAY2022 Liberal Arts Transfer Degree (Madison College)

SEP 2011- MAY 2016 Phi Theta Kappa Member

GPA : 3.724 (Member of the Madison College Dean’s list)

SEP 2011- DEC 2011 Biotech Lab skills, Biosafety, Lab Math for Biotech, and Hazardous Materials

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