David Hess

Background

About David Hess

Data analyst with over a decade of experience in leveraging data and analytics to assist in business decisions, fraud detection, and revenue optimization.Ability to derive insight from large volumes of data from diverse sources, including personally shepherding the data through all steps of the process- Working with management to determine what question needs to be answered- Collaborating with software engineers to ensure collection of appropriate information from production systems- Querying databases to extract existing data- Appending external datasets (e.g. census, credit)- Cleaning and validating messy data- Applying statistical modeling and analysis techniques- Reporting findings in an understandable and actionable way.Strong aptitude, ability, motivation and interest in placing quantitative analysis in the context of marketing and business economics.Excellent written and oral communication skills, with ability to clearly communicate ideas and results to non-technical business people.Specialties: Experience working with SAS, R, IDL, SQL, RapidMiner, Excel, Word, Windows, Linux, Mac