Resume
Work Experience
Senior Associate, Analytics & Insights | Strategic Data Lead | Senior Compliance Associate | Compliance Associate
Tegus | Chicago, IL | June 2021 - Present
- Lead a transcription vendor evaluation to reduce annual costs while maintaining high quality standards for published interview content for a subscription research platform trusted by 2,500+ investment managers and businesses.
- Pioneer, scale, and productionize surveillance of potentially confidential information for an industry-leading compliance department of 40+ using machine learning and natural language processing to enhance risk assessment.
- Develop and optimize robotic process automations using Snowflake, dbt, and Salesforce to implement ETL tooling in a complex, multi-layered compliance review process, improving turnaround time to publication by 55%.
- Guide content operations strategy and enablement through advanced forecasting and capacity planning.
- Design dashboards for compliance officers and senior leadership surrounding individual performance and department KPIs.
Editor-in-Chief | Campus Editor | City Editor | City of East Lansing Reporter
The State News | East Lansing, MI | January 2019 - May 2021
- Directed a paid staff of 50 at Michigan State’s independent student media organization during the COVID-19 pandemic, transitioning to remote work and achieving back-to-back Pacemaker Awards from Associated Collegiate Press.
- Analyzed audience engagement using Excel and Google Analytics in monthly reports to the Board of Directors, expanding readership with student audiences and maintaining 100% year over year growth in web traffic.
- Established a DEI team, publishing findings from data collection through demographic surveys of staff and interview sources to improve news coverage representation.
- Optimized budget allocation by redesigning the payroll structure, resulting in higher staff wages and reduced payroll expenses.
Skills
Language/Software | Competency | Applications |
---|---|---|
Python | Advanced | Data cleaning, automation, machine learning |
SQL | Advanced | Data extraction, data analysis |
MS Office/G suite | Advanced | Ad hoc analysis in Excel, presentation slides |
Power BI/Looker Studio | Advanced | Dashboard creation, data visualization |
Salesforce | Intermediate | Report building, performance tracking |
Git | Intermediate | Version control, collaboration |
R | Intermediate | Statistical testing, data visualization |
Snowflake | Beginner | Data integration |
Docker | Beginner | containers, continuous deployment |
VBA | Beginner | Microsoft Word macros |
Python Libraries
- Pandas
- Numpy
- Matplotlib
- Plotly
- Scikit-Learn
- Pytorch / Tensorflow
- Transformers
- Streamlit
- Requests
- Spacy
- NLTK
- Statsmodels
- PuLP (Linear Programming)
Education
Northwestern University | Evanston, IL
M.S. in Data Science, Expected 2025
- Specialization in Data Engineering
- Relevant coursework: Database Systems and Data Preparation, Applied Statistics with R, Math for Data Scientists
Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI
B.S. in Journalism, 2021
- Concentration in International Journalism, double major in History
- MSU Debate Team: National Debate Tournament Qualifier