Bio
After completing my undergraduate studies and beginning my career as a data engineer, I wanted to further increase my hard and soft data science skills with an M.S. I am excited to bring my unique interdisciplinary background, diverse professional experience in academic, governmental, and private healthcare data science and consulting, and first-class communication and collaboration skills to your organization.As a contractor for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development, I used R, Python, and SQL to build and maintain data infrastructure, from automated web scraping to ETL pipelines to cloud storage solutions. I am grateful for the training I received in making my work reproducible and easily communicable as part of a federally regulated agency, and I am proud to say that my work was part of the cleanup efforts in East Palestine, Ohio last year.
However technically skilled an analyst may be, they are only as valuable as their communication skills, and through my interdisciplinary background I have been lucky enough to receive extensive training in scientific communication, rhetoric, and data journalism. I am equally happy writing documentation, presenting technical reports to internal collaborators, and discussing results with stakeholders.
As much as I enjoy getting my hands dirty in the data mines, the heart has room for many loves. In my free time, I enjoy birding, reading, and attempting to play the piano. I also sing bass in SONAM, a vocal ensemble dedicated to supporting local nonprofits through benefit concerts.