Hello!
I am currently seeking new opportunities in data science and analytics. My data science toolkit is like a Swiss army knife – I have a wide-ranging set of knowledge and experience to draw from but no single specialization. I have experience with applied statistical and econometric modeling, machine learning, and data visualization and have implemented models in a few different programming languages. This has been helpful for working on research projects and telling stories with data. My Swiss army knife toolset will allow me to flexible and adapt to the next data project and future colleagues' workflows.
Education
- Simon Business School -- University of Rochester (NY)
Master of Science in Business AdministrationAugust 2019 - The College of Wooster (OH)
Bachelor of Arts in EconomicsMay 2013
Professional Experience
- Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Research AnalystJune 2014 - June 2017- I worked for three years in the bank's research department. I improved my skills in data analysis, statistics, econometrics, and data visualization. I expanded my data toolkit by writing code in SQL, R, Matlab, and Stata for projects. My primary responsibilities were working on briefings for bank management, academic research, and surveying Beige Book participants. Highlights include co-writing nine bank-published research publications and writing automated production code for median and trimmed-mean consumer price index calculations.
- International Food Policy Research Institute
Contract Research AssistantDec 2013 - Apr 2014- I wrote Stata scripts to analyze agricultural plot panel data with econometric methods. James Warner, Leulsegged Kasa, and I wrote an IFPRI research publication: Woreda-Level Crop Production Rankings in Ethiopia: A Pooled Data Approach. Alternate link at Gates Open Research.
- DTE Energy
Summer Student InternSummers 2011 & 2012- For two summers I worked in the office of Monroe Power Plant. I liked the wide variety of projects I worked on. Highlights include updating the plant intranet website and creating databases to organize procedures for plant operators, co-running a public relations booth at a weeklong event and organizing 50 volunteers who supported it, and studying and reporting on site traffic flows in a congested area for a safety committee.
Skills
- Programming: Python, SQL, R, Matlab, Stata
- Tools: Git, GIS (QGIS), Linux, Bash, Shell Programming, Windows, Microsoft Office, Hugo static site generator, Docker, DigitalOcean
- Data Science: Data cleaning/wrangling, visualization, statistics, econometrics, probability, machine learning, regression, classification, clustering, time series, panel data
Federal Reserve Publications
- Geographic Mobility and Consumer Financial Health: Evidence from Oil Production Boom Towns
with Rawley Heimer and Caitlin Treanor, Nov 2016 - The Long-Run Natural Rate of Interest
with Charles Carlstrom, Dec 2015 - The Chinese Renminbi and the Fundamental Trilemma
with Owen Humpage and Sara Millington, Oct 2015 - Assessing Consumer Confidence with Google Search Terms
with Rawley Heimer and Daniel Kolliner, July 2015 - Mutable Economic Laws and Calculating Unemployment and Output Gaps: An Application to Taylor Rules
with Charles Carlstrom, June 2015 - Behind the Slow Pace of Wage Growth
with Filippo Occhino, Apr 2015 - Exchange-Rate Pass-Through and US Prices
with Owen Humpage, Mar 2015 - Uncovering the Demand for Housing Using Internet Search Volume
with Rawley Heimer and Daniel Kolliner, Feb 2015- Media: HousingWire
- Implied Taylor Rules among Forecasters
with Charles Carlstrom, Dec 2014