Doug Needham's Linkedin Analytics

Data isn’t just numbers — it is the new gold. As a passionate and deeply knowledgeable data scientist, I have vast expertise enhancing, automating, and analyzing data processes. Since I first ignited my data career in the US Marine Corps, governing global operational systems in support of various missions — an experience that embedded my foundational knowledge of data management, helped define my personal philosophy of ensuring data integrity, and shaped my professional principles and perspective of data protection — I have been solving data challenges for businesses of all sizes by diving deep and transforming data to elevate productivity, efficiency, growth, and success. Some notable achievements include: • Excelling as the principal problem-solver conveying analysis and ensuring effective platform function utilizing Snowflake, as well as educating customers on how to reduce their process run time by 92% – from 1.5 hours down to just seven minutes – for DataOps.live. • Stabilizing KORE Wireless’ server with configuration changes from day 1, resulting in zero outages and performance issues as opposed to consistent ecosystem outages averaging 2 hours per week across 600 databases. • Catalyzing Markov chain model to identify high-performing students and engineering Ensemble Predictive Model using SQL rules and R’s decision tree to predict behaviors exhibited by at-risk student with greater than 80% accuracy for edtech giant Cengage Learning. • Presenting at prestigious national data conferences and developing presentations on topics such as data structure graphs, high-level graph theory, and network analysis involving Gephi, Graphx, and Giraph. • Authoring and publishing The Enrichment Game: A Story About Making Data Powerful about winning in business by understanding in-depth insights derived from data to create platforms for surprising future successes. I am always interested in expanding my professional network and eager to discover what the future has to offer. If you would like to start a conversation that moves us towards purposeful action with data, reach out to me at dougthedataguy@gmail.com or here on LinkedIn. Technical Toolkit: SNOWFLAKE Certified Professional LINUX KUBERNETES ORACLE R MySQL SQL SERVER PYTHON ClickHouse Read more about how I make data powerful here: http://the-data-guy.blogspot.com/ https://github.com/dougneedham https://technicspub.com/enrichment/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XETTPCI