NANCY ABRAMSON

NABRAMSON@IEEE.ORG

720-468-1796

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

  · Senior Business Intelligence Developer and Analyst

  · Insightful, results-driven, data and system architect that provides optimally integrated business problem solutions

using data tools including SQL, scripting, ETL, data mining and predictive analytics while working with finance,

executive, and technology teams

  · Experience includes data presentation, agile development, data profiling, requirements analysis, data base analysis

and data warehouse architecture

EXPERTISE:

  · Open Source Tool Knowledge

  · Descriptive, Prescriptive, and Predictive Analysis

  · Database and System Administration

  · Process Streamlining and Testing

  · Cost Benefit Analysis with ROI

  · Agile Project Management

  · Data Warehouse Architecture

  · Extract Transform Load-ETL

EXPERIENCE:

2014-present

  · Tableau Software

  · Python

  · Weka - Data Mining

  · Linux

  · MySQL

  · Aster Teradata

  · Oracle Certified SQL Expert and PL/SQL

Eliasson, Denver, CO

Product Data Scientist Sub-contractor for Charter Communications

Coordinated engineering, data, and business teams for generating cable operations for reporting to

executive staff.

  · Provided multi-data source blended path analysis for predicting application health

  · Moved (ETL) raw set top box data from multiple sources for Tableau dashboard so executive would

have information for data driven solutions

  · Reconciled vendor data discrepancies by assisting with problem solving of system anomalies by

presenting a data story

  · Used Hadoop Hive NoSQL for ad-hoc analysis

  · Programmed Python for automated Aster analysis automation

  · Designed user dashboards with Tableau and provided supporting database tables for efficient and

automated updates

2012 – 2013

SpotXchange, Westminster, CO

Principal Data Scientist

Coordinated engineering, data, and business teams for generating media advertising solutions

  · Used census data to determine customer patterns by demographics

  · Investigated outliers for quality spend and fraud investigation

  · Data architect for reporting including dynamic ad-hoc visualization solution including MySQL, MS

Excel, Sales Force, and text data sources

  · Successfully evaluated proof of concept requirements including candidates

  · Launched proof of concept winner Tableau to production in 60 days for data warehouse dashboard

and ad-hoc analysis

  · Agile product manager for data team

2009 – 2012

Datasource Consulting, Denver, CO

Systems Analyst Infrastructure Support

  · Provided research, infrastructure support, and consulting services

  · Designed and implemented systems architecture in Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2)

  · Created Linux shell scripts to automatically launch and configure server instances

  · Maintained open source CRM, source control, and document services systems

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  · Designed and implemented multi-cloud backup strategy

  · Evaluated Tableau and Clikview as BI front end tools

  · Configured Hadoop on EC2

Systems Architect/ETL Developer

Web Services Client

  · Designed and implemented open systems architecture in Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2)

  · Installed and configured open source ETL Talend Administration Center (TAC) and Jasper Server

  · Designed and developed Talend ETL jobs to populate data warehouse using best practices of

warehouse design

  · Designed and implemented backup strategy using rsync

Systems Architect/ETL Developer

Financial Service Client

  · Provided Informatica upgrade support for multiple servers

  · Scripted nightly upgrades for testing of the production system

  · Supported and verified upgrades for a dozen different database and application connection types

Systems Architect/ETL Developer

Phone Application Start-up Client

  · Designed and implemented data warehouse using best practices

  · Designed and developed Talend ETL jobs to populate data warehouse

  · Profiled source data to understand data quality and values

2008 – 2009

Corporate Express, a Staples Company, Broomfield, CO

Statistical Business Analyst

  · Provided strategic pricing recommendations for over 3,000 products by integrating and mining

customer sales from the data warehouse to optimize inventory pulls for executive staff and extraordinary

shareholders

  · Optimized pricing strategies and provided data focused presentations for category managers by

comparing competitor pricing and volume using Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, ETL, MS Excel, SPSS

Clementine, and UNIX AWK programming

  · Recommendation randomized sample size and strategies for marketing email campaigns by data

mining customer purchases such as market basket products and used Box, Hunter, and Hunter

significance tests for reviewing the results

2001 – 2008

Abramson Ventures, LLC, Denver, CO

Financial Analyst and IT Consultant

  · Provided time series regression for determining profit ratio and pricing strategies for engine Warranty

Company

  · Data profiled food manufacturing process for quality control using MS Access

  · Installed software, hardware and maintained users on PC network

  · Maintained backups including documentation and restore checks

  · Non-profit finance manager

  · Provide budget, excel financial reports, MS Access database mailing list and donor support,

QuickBooks Payroll, and tax reporting for 501(C) (3) organizations

1998 – 2001

Oppenheimer Funds, Centennial, CO

Data Warehouse Architect and Senior Database Administrator

  · Designed and implemented a hub and spoke data warehouse using Informatica ETL mappings for

sources to targets

  · Produced data models for relational, star schemas, and multi-dimensional databases

  · Wrote UNIX shell (Korn and Perl) scripts to automate data extraction and analysis processes

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  · Removed unnecessary production steps and naturally combined data in order to streamline

production processes for importing and analyzing portfolio data. Sybase, SQL Server, and Oracle

database administrator on Sun, HP, and PC platforms.

  · Provided enterprise data support for Hyperion Essbase OLAP

  · Installed software and recommended hardware on PCs and UNIX servers

  · Maintained backups including documentation and restore checks for New York and Denver

1992 – 1998

Dot Com Startups NEON and EMASS, Greenwood Village, CO

International Database Developer

  · Database administrator for Sybase, SQL Server, and Oracle on UNIX and NT platforms for United

States and Germany sites

  · Provided logical and physical database design for deliverable software product

  · Taught Taguchi Design of Experiments statistical class and application to multivariable software

testing

  · Wrote installation and upgrade scripts for data definition and product procedures through automated

processes using core definitions for Informix, Oracle, Sybase, and SQL server

  · Scrubbed and analyzed data to find failure profiles

EDUCATION:

University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO

  · Masters of Science – Applied Statistics

University of Denver, Denver, CO

  · Bachelor of Science – Mathematics and Computer Science

CERTIFICATIONS:

  · Informatica ETL Bronze Certified Big Data Professional (2012)

  · Talend ETL Certified Professional (2011)

  · SAS Certified Base Programmer (2009)

  · Oracle Certified PL/SQL Developer Associate (2008)

  · Oracle Certified SQL Expert (2008)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

2015 Sankey Path Analysis of Web Button Clicks and Page Views, Denver, CO

Presented at Data Science and Big Data meetups on how to combine user web clicks with server errors

to produce a 360 view of how an application acts in the wild using Teradata Aster.

2011 BI in the Cloud: Server Administration Primer

  · Discussed how administration is different in the cloud when compared to traditional servers

2000 Burnt Sand’s Executive Breakfast Seminars, Denver, CO, USA and Calgary, Alberta, CANADA

  · Taught an e-business infrastructure using Oppenheimer Funds case study on a distributed data

warehouse architecture and implementation

1999 Informatica International User’s Group, San Diego, CA

  · Presented Oppenheimer Funds case study on a distributed data warehouse architecture with extract

transform and load (ETL) implementation using Informatica Power Mart and Power Center

1990 Building Quality into the Product: Aerospace Design Application, Baltimore, MD

• Presented a paper on a design methodology that linked requirements with a statistical modeling

approach, design of experiments, in order to optimize parameters in an avionics design