Justin Thomas
Professional Summary
I am a passionate and self-directed learner who thrives when faced with problems that require learning and applying new skills. I am always looking for ways to utilize and build my technical skills, while supporting colleagues in doing their work in the most effective and rewarding ways possible. My formal education is in business administration and the social sciences, and I have worked in data analytics for the State of Missouri since completing my doctoral degree program in 2014. I have experience working with a wide variety of administrative and research data, growing an analytics team in a large agency, and providing information and analytics for decision making. I am a certified data management professional and scrum master with an array of technical skills, including web design, data base administration, data visualization, and machine learning.
Employment History
Jefferson City, Misouri
- Team Building and Cross-functional Collaboration: Developed and led a team of research data analysts, and utilized Scrum framework to support process improvement efforts across an agency with approximately 9,000 staff, 80,000 clients, and dozens of external partners.
- Data Quality and Business Performance: Created KPIs, data visualizations and reports to support frontline staff in making improvements such as: 1) an increase in case plan compliance of 150% and 2) an increase in compliance with data quality guidelines for critical data elements from 50% to 100%.
- Data Management: Collaborated with agency staff and third-party technical support teams to develop metadata and ETL queries, and conduct data quality reviews during the conversion of internal legacy systems into applications on other platforms.
- Data Collection: Built lightweight software using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS hosted on internally supported web and database servers.
- Advanced Statistics and Machine Learning: Utilized advanced statistics and supervised machine learning to estimate risk and evaluate program performance.
- Technology: Leveraged software to collect, manage, and analyze data: Microsoft Office, R, RStudio, WebFOCUS, DBeaver, Tableau, SAS Enterprise Guide, Python, JupyterLab, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, Visio, PowerBI.
Columbia, Missouri
- Drafted academic literature reviews on various topics, including community development, nutritional security, and health care.
- Developed regression models and co-authored peer-reviewed journal publications.
Skills
Data Warehousing, Metadata, Business Intelligence
Tableau, PowerBI
Mixed Effects, Random Forest
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery
iSeries, DB2, MS SQL, MySQL
GNU/Linux, Windows
Azure, AWS