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Alex Baker

Data Scientist

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About Me

Masters-qualified with 4+ years of experience spanning Data Science, Analysis and Engineering specialized in bringing people and data together and using data and modeling to tell the best story. My entire career to date has been driven by my passion for connecting people with the information they need and driving the growth of the company. I thrive in environments where creative ideation is a daily reality as we proactively seek out exciting insights in the data to design innovative solutions for customers.

Experience

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Data Scientist

Created and maintained datasets from different sources to create a cohesive narrative within the data. Generated weekly key metric reports for product owners to drive business decisions. Created data validation applications that cut down data discrepancies in the data warehouse by 70%. Reworked data pipeline that spans the business in order to create a cleaner code base and to decrease run time. Presented new ideas and features to CEO, CTO, and investors.

Seyfarth Shaw

Strategic Pricing Coordinator [Data Scientist]

Spearheaded business deliverables for a large portion of clients across the North American firm, leading to a 10% increase in business. Built custom dashboards to organize and track 100+ attorney’s billable hours for 10+ clients resulting in over $10,000 of incorrectly billed hours to be fixed. Work with internal leadership to develop and implement staffing and budgeting models that helps measure account KPIs and decision-making in real-time leading to a 20% increase in revenue. Maintain client datasets within the data warehouse. Work with a geographically distributed team to develop solutions for ingesting raw data into data lake

Ball State University

Software Engineer

  • Work with Indiana General Assembly to maintain tools in tracking voter engagement.
  • Developed a customized host site for faculty and students to store data, upload announcements, and manage their virtual classroom (~200+ users).
  • Managed a team composed of 8 people while working directly with the client.
  • Spearheaded the development of custom data tracking and analysis for educational technology.

Education

Indiana University

Aug 2020 - Dec 2021

Masters of Science in Data Science

Relevant Coursework: Business Analytical Modeling, Data Mining, Tableau, and Big Data Applications

Ball State University

Aug 2015 - May 2019

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Projects

Indiana Campaign Finance

*Work in Progress*
A application that allows users to aggregate campaign finance data for Indiana candidates. The application is built using OpenRefine and Superset. The data is downloaded from the Indiana Secretary of State website yearly and stored on GitHub.

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