Lance
Brooks

Summary

Data professional; specializing in the full data cycle. Direct experience creating automations, exploring datasets, creating analytical models, and presenting dashboards.

• Worked with datasets consisting of 8B+ data points

• Produced automations that successfully saved thousands of manual hours

• Created executive level dashboards synthesizing organization-wide info into action-oriented consumption

Experience

LinkedIn, Insights Program Manager

September 2021 - present

• Cross-functional contributor supporting Jobs related products. Primary teams supported include: product, data science, and marketing.

• Developed dynamic content for front-facing Jobs products in preparation of product launch that increases quality hiring by over 50%.

• Created custom SQL scripts using MySQL to query databases containing 10B+ unique data points.

• Maintained data pipelines across various tools including: Hive, MySQL, and Tableau.

Booz Allen Hamilton, Senior Consultant - Data Scientist

September 2020 - September 2021

• Support automation modernization effort for DoD client resulting in the resolution of $5M+ worth of misplaced government funding.

• Serve as UiPath automation SME to gather process requirements and automation task feasibility.

• Provide HR automation solutions to DoD clients that merge cloud computing with machine learning by utilizing the AWS platform.

KPMG, Consultant - Intelligent Automation & Analytics

January 2020 - September 2020

• Blueprinted, developed, and maintained an emergency response bot using UiPath that reduced processing time by 88% from 8 hours to 1 hour. Increased daily processing capability from 200 records to 1,600 records per day.

• Designed Robotic Process Automation (RPA) workflows in UiPath to increase the accuracy of HR compensation award processing. This process improved the processing accuracy of over $1M in federally allocated funds.

• Created bot in UiPath to automate processes saving over 200 human hours across 11 different HR departments.

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GuideHouse, Consultant - Advanced Analytics & Automation

October 2018 - January 2020

• Created time series analysis using R to forecast future occurrences using the Holt-Winters forecasting method resulting in an increased forecasting accuracy. Predictions consisted of 5 years of historical information with 3M-5M records per day.

• Deployed semi-automated data analysis tool using Microsoft Access to combine 4 spreadsheets and simplify the supply chain management process for over 8,000 mechanical parts across client network.

• Visualized information using Tableau to showcase findings and emphasize recommendations to stakeholders on survey respondent information to influence strategy for client population of 5,000.

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American University Washington College of Law, Assistant Director of Admissions & Analytics

October 2017 - October 2018

• Extracted and cleaned 15+ years of archived admissions data to develop strategies that increased new student enrollment by 8% (over 40 additional enrollees - FY 2018)

• ·Created customized databases using MySQL (50,000+ data points) to analyze law school applicant characteristics that resulted in the re-evaluation of recruitment targeting strategies (team attended 120 recruiting events total – FY 2018)

Organizations

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, inc.

University of Maryland Alumni Association

NAACP, Howard County

National Black MBA Association, Inc.

GWUL, Thursday Network

March of Dimes

Project Management Institute

Interests

Body Building

Team Sports (Basketball)

High Fashion

Omega Watches

Traveling

Lexus Cars

Kawasaki Motorcycles

Education

University of Maryland Law School, Baltimore, MD

JD, Tech Policy / Intellectual Property

Expected 2026

Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD

MBA, General Management
Graduated December 2019

University of Maryland Global Campus, Adelphi, MD

MS, Data Analytics
Graduated May 2018

University of Maryland Global Campus, Adelphi, MD

Graduate Certificate, Business Analytics
Received December 2016

University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD

BA, Sociology
Graduated May 2015

Certifications

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Dell EMC Data Science Associate

Tableau Desktop Specialist

UiPath RPA Developer (Level 3)

CompTIA Project+

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Project Management Professional (PMP)

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