About Me

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My Story

I currently work at Gilsbar as an IT Supervisor over our Business Support teams. Previously, at Gilsbar, I served for a couple years as a Senior Business Analyst and Team Leader of IT’s Project Management Office. I live in Madisonville, LA with my wife and two children. I am from Iowa originally, where I grew up in the country and went to school at a very small school (~200 total in my high school). I spent 7 years on active duty in the Marine Corps, and another 3 in the reserve. I love learning, coding, reading and working with data. I am a car and motorcycle enthusiast, DIY weekend warrior and full time tinkerer.

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My Education

Degree/Program	School	Location	Years
M.S. Data Science	Southern Methodist Univeristy	Dallas, TX	2019-2021
Black Belt - Lean Six Sigma	Villanova Univeristy	Villanova, PA	2016-2017
B.A. Computer Information Systems	Central College	Pella, IA	2005-2008

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My Skillset¹

• Hard-to-teach Skills:
  • Excellent leadership ability
  • Strong communication and presentation skills
  • Outside the box problem solving
  • Extracting business use cases from data analysis
  • Strong business acumen
  • Solid understanding of statistics
• Industry Know-how:
  • Machine Learning, AI, predictive modeling techniques
  • Regression and Time Series techniques for forecasting
  • Classification with Logistic Regression, SVM, RandomForest, Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines and more
  • Data visualization and storytelling
  • Detailed knowledge of various cloud stacks (AWS, GCP and Azure)
  • Relational database design
  • Data mining and ETL techniques
  • Process improvement methodologies
  • Project management experience
• Coding Wizardry:
  • Highly proficient in SQL
  • Very comfortable in R, Python
  • Capable in JavaScript and SAS
  • Dabble in C# and Java

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1. My full work history and experience may be found on LinkedIn↩︎