Hi, I’m Brent!

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I’m interested in developer roles within the data and/or automation space. My strength is in the intersection of software development and quantitative work. I have a huge tendency to automate and optimize dynamic data driven processes. I aspire to build machine learning and data science solutions!

Technical
Skill Set and Knowledge

Work
Experience

Charter Communications
Data Engineer/Developer
May 2023  -  Present
ETL maintenance and development via PySpark on Amazon EMR clusters (deployed from GitLab)
Maintaining/developing Tableau dashboards for Spectrum Mobile reporting
Adhoc reporting of Spectrum Mobile metrics from data lake in Amazon Athena
Quality assurance analysis of dashboard and ETL changes
FirstBank
Data Analytics Developer
August 2021 - May 2023 (1 year 8 months)
Providing business insight by developing R and Python scripts, or Excel workbooks, to yield analytical output.
Business Process Automation Developer
September 2018 - August 2021 (3 years)
Developed scripts in Python and VBA to automate mundane, repetitive, and rule-based business processes.
Automated tasks such as data entry, reconciliation, and pulling data from multiple sources.
Automated applications such as excel, web browsers, and terminal emulators that interact with the mainframe.
Developed routines for text parsing, DB interaction, and built a flask app as a UI for a web scraper.
Participated in an RPA proof of concept (PoC) project for UiPath and Automation Anywhere.
Fraud Analytics Analyst
August 2016 - September 2018 (2 years 1 month)
Developed, maintained, and tuned fraud rules to maximize coverage while minimizing customer impact.
Implemented fraud rules in data driven applications that can reference historical behavior for anomaly detection.
Analyzed fraud trends and tracked potential points of compromise.
Wrote complex analytical SQL queries and built programmable database objects.
Developed VBA/.NET solutions that improved and automated operations.
Trilogy Education
Part Time Teacher Assistant
November 2019 - May 2020 (6 months)
TA'd for the DU Data Anlaytics Bootcamp.

Education &
Certificates

University of Colorado, Boulder
BA, Mathematics
August 2011 - May 2016
Mathematics in the Computational Math Track
Minor in Applied Math with an Emphasis on Scientific Computing
Minor in Electrical Engineering with an Emphasis on Signals and Systems
Coursera
Renewable Energy Specialization Certificate by the University of Colorado
Internet History, Technology, and Security Certificate by the University of Michigan
Machine Learning Certificate by Stanford University
Using Databases with Python Certificate by the University of Michigan

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