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 ExperienceEpidemiologist Data Analyst,07 2021-CurrentCalifornia 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.Research Statistician IV,12 2017-07 2021Hawaii 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.Research Statistician III,07 2017-12 2017Hawaii 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.Epidemiology Fellow,07 2015-07 2017CSTE 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 TrainingMasters of Public Health Epidemiology,Expected in05 2015-University of Georgia-Athens, GA,GPA Status-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 GPABachelor of Arts International Affairs,Expected in05 2015-Univeristy of Georgia-Athens, GA,GPA Status-Honors International Scholar 2014Zell B. Miller Scholarship Recipient 2011-20153.9 GPA  SEP  Direct Supply, Inc. is seeking a qualified candidate to serve as a Staff Data Engineer to work with a team of engineers and architects to design data driven solutions, and establish robust data pipelines and services in Milwaukee, WI. Duties Include Provide technical direction and mentoring of a small data engineering project team, to design solutions ensuring industry best SDLC practices Identify new development processes that improve the predictability and quality of projects Create, build and deploy robust data structures and pipelines to support analysis and decision making Provide high-level technical analysis and design as new projects go through the ideation phase Collaborate with end users and peers to understand requirements, formulate use cases, and translate into an effective technical solution Ownership of the design and delivery of key components of a large-scale data platform Build and deploy data warehouses and ETL and ELT applications Participate in global data strategy Design data integration pipeline architecture and infrastructure required for reporting and data analysis Use the Scrum development process to deliver software solutions Coordinate integration testing and debugging of software components Understand system architecture and integration of new functionality. Minimum Qualifications The minimum entry requirements for the Staff Data Engineer position is a Bachelors degree (or U.S. equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field plus 5 years data engineering or business intelligence experience which must include 5 years of each of the following (and can be gained concurrently) Working with enterprise data management technologies such as database and ETL technologies Writing complex queries across large data sets Configuring, managing, and monitoring cloud data solutionsapplications Using Python and a module for structured data processing such as Spark SQL. Pre-employment drug test required. Candidate must have references for work experience that confirm experience. Candidates will also be subject to a criminal background check, and may be rejected if criminal convictions are substantially related to the position applied for, in accordance with applicable law. For more information, contact or reply by rsum to Megan Thull, Senior HR Generalist, Direct Supply, Inc., 7301 W. Champions Way, Milwaukee, WI 53223 (Phone) 414-760-5682 (E-mail) Megan.Thull directsupply.com Job to be performed in the location listed. Generous benefit package available. Click here to learn more. Direct Supply, Inc. and its U.S. subsidiaries are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers committed to diverse workforces. 2013 to 2023 Direct Supply, Inc. All rights reserved.