SUMMARY:

• Seeking an analytical position. Data analyst/Junior data scientist possessing a combination of IT and GIS experience to include Business analysis, PMO project management support, GIS, programming (SQL, R, Python), within waterfall and agile environments. I have acquired a Master’s degree in GIS, and am currently pursuing a Graduate and Master’s degree in Data Science. Willing to relocate.
• Analytical aptitude with a bent on visualizing data and strong attention to detail and precision.
• Strong self - motivation and initiative. Self-starter with an ability to learn quickly and adapt to varied organizational structures and environments.
• Adept at thinking critically, solving complex problems and in applying statistical analysis techniques and methodologies.
• Ability to interface with all levels of management and staff resources, including team and project environments.
• Strong professional, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Diligent work ethic with a willingness to learn. Conscientious about accuracy and detail.
• Project management support experience.
• Leadership ability with supervisory experience.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Westminster, CO

Business Analyst/Project Coordinator (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Provide project administrative support to the PMO Manager and 8 Project Managers and 8 Service Group Leads, in a traditional project management environment, to include PM documentation, meeting support, project portfolio database maintenance and managing and project intake pipeline triaging.
• Assist in providing budget support to manage contractor hours on projects and anticipate project budgeting needs.
• Manage and maintain the Project Portfolio database in Excel and in SharePoint, which includes tracking and forecasting of projects to include rank, and resource hour forecasts for 64 IT staff and contractors and their time breakdown on various time tracking buckets.
• Perform Project Lead and Business Analyst roles to collect and gather requirements for the Portfolio Tracking Tool Replacement Project, as well as create a Vendor matrix assessment and recommendations for a final tool selection.
• Design, analyze and maintain PMO metrics and analytics.

Confidential, Ignacio, CO

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Back-end SQL querying and report design in Enertia ERP system.
• Hybrid responsibilities involving business analysis, project management, testing and SQL report writing.
• Served as Project Lead, and designed and led reports requirements gathering and tracking activities for cross-functional projects, to include Enertia reports integration with GIS Web Apps, designing e-Learning content for Enertia, and designing an IT SharePoint knowledge base design.
• Designed, developed and managed a complete requirements traceability system and workflow on SharePoint, to manage 80+ requirements, using a hybrid combination of SDLC (Waterfall) and Agile methodologies. Produced and managed all other related, project management documentation.
• Developed and tested a requirements scoring mechanism based on complexity and stakeholder value to rank and prioritize requirements.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

IT Project Assistant/Coordinator (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Testing and Deployment Director with execution of End-to-End Testing (E2E), Go-Live and post Go-Live Enhanced Support period.
• Tracked and managed development and testing progress on 1200+ requirements on a traceability matrix in spreadsheet format, in accordance with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.
• Throughout the project lifecycle, tracked and managed issues and incident management via a combination of tools to include HP Quality Center (QC) on ServiceNow, and generated ad-hoc testing reports as needed for further analysis.
• Provided Project Management support via timesheet tracking follow-up, meeting support and created ad-hoc reports and other requested program and project analysis as needed.
• Maintained project documentation on various Google applications such as Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, etc.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Front Desk Agent P/T

Responsibilities:

• Provide general guest service functions including taking and maintaining reservations, and maintaining guest records.
• Perform cash handling and some bookkeeping functions.
• Conduct other back office support functions, documentation and/or special projects as needed.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

IT Project Coordinator (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Supported several IT implementation projects and initiatives, assisting the Project Manager in ensuring that all operational aspects of the projects assigned are synchronized.
• Assisted in tracking and compiling documentation of project progress, and in compiling project reports and meeting minutes.
• Coordinated team meetings and other scheduling activities.
• Assisted in building and populating and in the implementation of several SharePoint sites.
• Conducted ad-hoc administrative support to multiple IT Directors and the CIO.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Executive Assistant (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Provided administrative support to SVP and Head of Strategic Distribution and department staff, including travel arrangements, scheduling and meeting support.
• Assembled and disseminated various monthly reports for managing directors and VPs.
• Provided ad-hoc support to Sales Recruiter by generating database queries and statistical reports.
• Created and managed the departmental SharePoint site project, including and content.

Confidential, Hudson, WI

Administrative Assistant/Project Coordinator (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Generated reporting outputs, using Excel PivotTables and statistical charts, for customer invoicing and program management decision-making.
• Lead and executed a dashboard project in Excel, which included plant metrics to measure and monitor staff utilization for performance management and planning purposes.
• Performed various purchasing functions including supply chain management.

Confidential, Winona, MN

Student Worker/GIS Intern

Responsibilities:

• Arcscanning, georeferencing and digitizing of wetland delineations, including attribution and QA/QC of related data entries.
• Geodatabase maintenance duties.