SummaryDetail oriented and team focused epidemiologist with 8 years of experience working as an epidemiologist and statistician for public health agencies. SkillsStatistical Analysis and Coding SAS, R, SQL, EpiInfoData Visualization Tableau, Arc GISMicrosoft Suite Excel, Access, Word Experience07 2021toCurrentEpidemiologist Data AnalystCalifornia Department Of Public Health City,STATE,Current epidemiologist on the Epidemiology and Surveillance Team within the COVID-19 California Department of Public Health (CDPH) response responsible for maintaining and providing case-based surveillance and epidemiologic data for COVID-19 cases in the state of California.Generated daily and weekly reports identifying COVID-19 trends including case rates, death rates, test positivity and health equity measures.Monitored data quality of death, duplicate, and reinfection data and worked with individual counties and other partners.Led efforts to create a process for deduplicating COVID-19 reinfection data by working closely with the data team and responding to feedback from individual counties.Assigned to the MPOX emergency response for 8 weeks and produced daily reports and visualizations using SAS and R. Led efforts to improve on LGBTQIA representation in data.Created a staff roster using SAS from several different teams on the emergency COVID-19 response. Combined multiple datasets and created a new dataset with unique variable key.Assisted with coding of COVID-19 racial equity analyses in SAS.12 2017to07 2021Research Statistician IVHawaii Department Of Health City,STATE,Developmental Disabilities Division s research statistician responsible for submitting annual reports to national agencies, consulting on data needs, assisting in division s new IT project, and providing data quality control.Analyzed variety of data sources including fiscal data, Medicaid claims, and demographic data.Coordinated efforts to transition entire division to new database system. Trained staff on data analysis concepts and methods, and use of Microsoft Excel and new system.Recommended data quality improvement policies and standards.Assisted with legislative reports and generated frequent data reports to Division Director.Lead of PPE Distribution efforts to providers across the state of Hawaii during COVID-19 pandemic when the division was assigned responsibility for allocating donated PPE. Allocated millions of units of PPE across hundreds of providers by analyzing needs versus requests. Coordinated hundreds of allocations with donors, distribution centers, and organizations.07 2017to12 2017Research Statistician IIIHawaii State Hospital City,STATE,Research statistician for the Department s Maternal and Child Health BranchCollected and analyzed data from reproductive health care providers around the state and produced weekly reports using Microsoft Access Excel.Assisted supervisor in providing data for annual grants.Submitted a poster that was accepted for a national maternal and child health conference.07 2015to07 2017Epidemiology FellowCSTE Hawaii Department Of Health City,STATE,Two year epidemiology fellowship through the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, funded through CDC and assigned to Hawaii Department of Health.Provided epidemiological support for maternal and child health capacity in Hawaii.Developed multiple research projects for adolescent health, injury prevention, teen births, and infant mortality.Proficient analysis of multiple data sources Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, Vital Statistics, Medicaid claims data using SAS.Produced reports for grant applications and legislative briefings.Developed surveys for different audiences and evaluated surveillance systems.Participated in Hawaii Dengue outbreak investigation in 2015.Presented oral sessions and posters at national and statewide conferences, trainings, and workshops.Mentored graduate student interns working on oral health.Evaluated programs and projects and received opportunity to attend national program evaluation training. Education and TrainingExpected in05 2015totoMasters of Public Health EpidemiologyUniversity of Georgia-Athens, GA,GPA UGA Dual Degree Program obtaining masters and bachelors degrees within 4 yearsCoursework clinical epidemiology, modeling infectious disease (PhD course), biostatistics, environmental health, health policy, clinical trials, and health promotion and behavior3.9 GPAExpected in05 2015totoBachelor of Arts International AffairsUniveristy of Georgia-Athens, GA,GPA Honors International Scholar 2014Zell B. Miller Scholarship Recipient 2011-20153.9 GPA  SEP  Position Senior Business Analyst (Production Support)Location Remote East CoastJob Type Direct Hire Job DescriptionThe Sr. Business Analyst elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the needs of business stakeholders. This includes understanding, documenting, and evaluating business processes through interviewing stakeholders. The Sr. Business Analyst elicits, gathers compiles and documents user requirements and translates them into functional requirements for technology solutions with an eye to improving processes and systems, enhancing their sustainability, and delivering maximum return on investment. The Sr. Business Analyst must have a thorough understanding of the business, functional, and technical aspects of the applications used within the portfolio they support. Core ResponsibilitiesEvaluate business processes anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and eliciting requirements for change.Lead ongoing reviews of business processes and develop optimization strategies.Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.Prepare business cases which define potential benefits, options for achievingthese benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate this back to the business stakeholders.Prepare effort estimation.Perform requirements analysis. Document and Communicate the results of the analysis.Translate business requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developersthe project team.Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to business owner(s), developers andor the project team.Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.Select, adopt and adapt appropriate business analysis methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterativeagile) approaches.Collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, conducting of investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.Provide leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.Collaborate with ITS teams and business partners to evaluate and prioritize work.Triage and analyze incidents and problems. Provide clear analysis results including business impact.Assist test analyst(s) with testing duties as necessary.On-Call andor after-hours work required.Essential CompetenciesProfessionalismPersonal Accountability, Collaboration and Teamwork, Communication, Flexible and Adapts to Change, Service to Customers and Clients Skill QualificationsRequired Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology developmentExceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skillsAbility to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutionsExcellent documentation skillsFundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skillsExperience creating detailed reports and giving presentationsExcellent planning, organizational, and time management skillsAbility to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly languageExceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as requiredAbility to translate business requirements of packaged solutionsAbility to research and understand packaged solution upgrades both minor and major. Translates the technical upgrade documentation into business terms the end-user can understand to make decision on. Makes recommendation on these upgrades.Experience in in Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid environmentsUnderstanding of application development and software development life cycle conceptsEffectively participates in teams and moves the team toward completion of goalsSystemsTechnical Knowledge Basic Technical understanding of the digital platform, cloud applications, web services, server-side components and APIsData analysis skills including ability to perform ad hoc SQL queriesCompetency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint Visio and Outlook Education and Experience Qualifications Required BS or BA with emphasis in computer science, information systems or business administration7-10 or more years related work experience as a business analystPreferred Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) andor Certified Business Analysis professions (CBAP) preferred