Monica Kay Royal

nerdnourishment

As a Data Career Strategist, I help professionals change careers and become a data analyst by leveraging their current skill sets.

My Data Career Strategy Program offers:
Personalized career roadmaps: Tailored guidance based on your background, skills, and goals.
Curated learning resources: Hand-picked content to focus your efforts and avoid information overload.
Practical project experience: Build a portfolio of real-world projects to demonstrate your skills.
Networking strategies: Learn how to effectively connect with others in the field.
Interviewing strategies: Learn how to showcase your value to potential employers to land a data job.

Check it out here ➡️ https://nerdnourishment.com/

Data Career Strategist

Podcast Host

As an Audit Analytics Consultant, I help internal audit departments build a data-driven audit approach which leverages the use of data analytics to make their audit procedures more effective.

Founder (Chief Data Enthusiast) | Audit Analytics Consultant

LinkedIn

Teaching data professionals how you can protect the data you work with on a daily basis for your data analytics and machine learning projects.

LinkedIn Learning Instructor

Instructor, Data Analytics & FinTech Bootcamps

Northwestern Mutual

Lead Product Manager - Behavior & Risk Analytics, Cybersecurity

American Express

Product Manager - Data Analytics & Innovation, Internal Audit

Arizona Public Service - APS

Business Data Analyst

Pinnacle West Capital Corporation

Data Analyst / Senior Information Security Auditor

Information Security Auditor II

CliftonLarsonAllen

Senior Information Technology Auditor

Clifton Gunderson LLP

Information Technology Auditor

IT Audit Intern

Helping professionals break into data without breaking anything | Instructor at edX | Host of Data Podcast for Nerds! 🤓

I am on a mission to bring the data community together and share/learn/grow 🌱 I provide mentoring services for folks trying to break into data and am the host of the Data Podcast for Nerds!  

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Happy Learning!!



If you are interested in deep diving into my personal bio...

I like to think that much like Liam Neeson, I have a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career.  Just over 13 years (ok, maybe not that long..)

My formal education is in Accounting and Management Information Systems. This allowed me to enter the world in as an Information Technology Auditor. During this time, I made sure to participate in all the varieties of projects available to me. Information Security, Logical/Physical Security, Cybersecurity, Application Controls, Change Management, Social Engineering, Vulnerability scans and Pen testing, Data Privacy, Financial Analysis.

Once I was introduced to Data and Analytics, I was hooked and on the move. I progressed to areas where I was able to be more involved with data, specifically data governance, data management, data literacy, and data visualizations. I advanced into enterprise analytics where I was exposed to programming and data science. I even briefly served as a system administrator, which was probably my most unique experience. Well, besides my first job in Food Management.

I eventually moved back into cybersecurity where I could focus on my passion for data overlapped with security, risk, and compliance; specifically related to behavioral analytics by obtaining formal training in Behavior Design.

Circle back to my current state and mission of helping others, I am now working for myself at nerdnourishment and teaching with edX 🤓


Tools Used to Assist in my Journey
- R
- SQL
- Python
- Tableau
- PowerBI
- Knowledge of awesome nerd related topics

Founder & Chief Data Enthusiast

Intelsio Inc

Joined Intelsio as the first internal data hire. Leveraged AWS, Redshift, and Tableau to build data products for marketing, partnerships, customer success teams.

Senior Analytics Engineer

DXN Services

Consulted tech companies on data strategy, data architecture, and hiring.
Saved hundreds of hours of executive time through data pipe-lining, modeling, and visualization.

Analytics Engineer

Built dozens of data models for use in reporting, visualization, and data science. Supported various stakeholders in marketing, sales, product, and executive. Built dashboards and reports that saved hundreds of hours of stakeholder time.

Used python and SQL to build data science models that helped predict customer conversion after trials and customer churn. 

Leveraged Git for version control and parallel programming among coworkers.

Progrexion

Produced multiple high value analyses for executives, QA'd dozens of stories for data analysts and data scientists, implemented agile processes and procedures, managed stakeholder relationships, produced weekly and monthly reports for C-Suite, presented key performance indicators in executive updates.

Senior Data Analyst

Managed the import and integrity of data for website traffic, revenue, and performance. Sent daily, weekly, and monthly reports on marketing initiatives. Built custom dashboards and reports on marketing/sales metrics through Tableau. Automated workflow through Python scripts. Facilitated weekly marketing team meetings. Daily use of MS SQL Server, Python, Tableau Desktop/Server, Google Analytics, and Adobe Analytics.

Junior Business Intelligence Analyst

Canopy

Built hundreds of front-end tax forms, designed user interface for tax software, created and implemented design standards for a team of eight developers. Expanded my proficiency in Microsoft Office, G-Suite, SQL, product research, and writing logic. Researched tax law, tax industry software, coding standards, and design standards.

Product Analyst

Built over one-hundred tax form pdfs, hundreds of logic rules, and thousands of lines of code. Facilitated work flow for senior software developers. Gained valuable start-up knowledge.

Product Intern

RiB - Restoration Insurance Billing

Managed billing accounts and invoices for flood restoration companies. Rewrote invoices, negotiated prices, tracked billing, and worked customer service. Rose to position of team leader, helped train new employees and managed their accounts.

Team Lead - Claims Advocate

Hi, I'm Connor, senior analytics engineer! I write content and courses on all things data. Whether it's a meme, a LinkedIn Learning course, or a newsletter, I'm here to help you improve your engineering skills.


Experience includes: data warehousing, complex database querying, writing and maintaining stored procedures, data analysis, building visualizations, building ETLs through Python Fivetran and Stitch, data science/machine learning models (regression, classification, clustering).

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