WPS Health Solutions

•	Leads 25+ direct and indirect reports spanning the areas of Data Science, Analytics, Process Automation, and Workforce Optimization.
•	Developed and executed a strategy focused on advancing enterprise analytics maturity, starting with intuitive data visualizations in executive level dashboards and building up through data science and artificial intelligence.
•	Acted as the business owner of a project that implemented a new externally facing reporting server to allow our customers to access WPS-owned reports. As business owner, I coordinated resources from automation, analytics, and security teams to deploy the solution on time and helped trouble shoot issues pre-deployment.
•	Focused on improving and evangelizing an automation citizen developer program using UiPath.
•	Managed an expense budget of $1.5MM, maximizing efficiency while remaining budget conscious.
•	Served on the Technology Review Board, reviewing new technology or technology use cases from the lens of application rationalization, security, and fiduciary duties.

Director of Data Science, Analytics, and Automation

University of Wisconsin-Madison

•	Collaboration with Drs. Perry Pickhardt and Jill Barnes to perform statistical analysis, including logistic regression, survival analysis, and data visualizations leading to 21 academic publications.
•	Focused on analysis that would improve clinical best practices rather than overly complex statistical analysis.
•	Reviewed and edited medical academic manuscripts from a non-clinical and non-statistician point of view, focusing on the holistic story the paper is trying to tell.
•	Served as a statistical collaborator for the Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (ICTR), Department of Radiology, and other departments as needed in the School of Medicine and Public Health.
•	Analyzed multicenter, phase III clinical trial data data and communicated results to a non-statistical audience, producing interim safety reports for an Independent Data Monitoring Committee (IDMC).
•	Instructor for graduate-level biostatistics classes taught towards non-statistics majors with over 100 students each semester, managing three teaching assistants to ensure timely delivery of homework, cohesiveness, and overall quality of discussion sections.
•	Advised 35 statistics undergraduate students and managed the statistics tutorial center, including staffing the center with teaching assistants and providing best practices to the tutors. Produced curricular, course, and honors proposal documents for the statistics undergraduate major.

Biostatistician

Exact Sciences

•	Analyzed Cologuard commercial sales data to facilitate business decisions in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
•	Developed a method to segment women’s health professionals into 5 tiers to allow better targeting and communication methods for sales representatives.
•	Created new segmentation methods for all health care providers for the inside sales team to refocus efforts on metrics most important for business growth.
•	Modeled Cologuard data to inform efficient patient recruitment for the BLUE-C clinical trial.
•	Certified in an accelerated Cologuard sales course to provide context around the data being analyzed.

Senior Analytics Manager

CUNA Mutual Group

•	Led, coached, and mentored a team of analytics consultants on best practices for gathering requirements and translating business problems into analytics solutions across the areas of Claims, Retirement, Wealth Management, and other enterprise functions.
•	Oversaw the development of dashboards, predictive models, and ad hoc statistical analysis including fraud detection.
•	Spearheaded, communicated, and executed a strategic framework to bring advanced analytics into Operations, focusing on people and process changes that would allow a continued culture of analytics maturity.
•	Deployed a predictive model in Claims that segments the population based on claim complexity and likelihood of fraud.
•	Negotiated contracts with vendors that delivered dashboard development and high value data science solutions, then acted as a liaison between the vendor and business leaders as solutions were developed.

Analytics Manager

•	Provided statistical support for the Customer Experience Unit with a focus on predictive modeling for TruStage marketing in collaboration with Liberty Mutual auto insurance. Delivered ad hoc analyses for marketing partners and other analysts, communicating results in plain language for non-technical audiences.
•	Collaborated in cross-functional teams to build out modeling processes and standardizing deliverables.
•	Acted as a data science liaison by presenting information in an easily digestible manner, presenting on hypothesis testing at CUNA Mutual’s Analytics in Motion conference to a largely non-statistical audience, and creating both plan and ad hoc presentations for leadership, explaining machine learning techniques in plain language.
•	Wrote scripts in R, SQL, and other programs to merge data sources, build models, and create visualizations from large amounts of data.

Data Scientist

US Army

•	Operated and maintained $1.3MM in state-of-the-art biological detection equipment, ensuring accurate and reliable results that supported critical mission objectives.
•	Instructed and trained new personnel on the safe operation of the equipment and in general military customs, while hand-picked to lead two personnel as a junior member of the company.
•	Received numerous commendations and awards for outstanding leadership, training, and operations, including the Army Good Conduct Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Army Service Ribbon, National Defense Service Ribbon, Humanitarian Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Iraqi Campaign Medal, and Overseas Service Ribbon.
•	Distinguished honor graduate of the biological detection advanced training course, proving exceptional aptitude and mastery of the field.

Biological Detection Team Member

Created and coordinated training schedules with managers of all levels in order for the company to achieve 100% in every category within the training doctrine.
Selected above all peers to work directly for upper management.
Worked with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point in order to organize data and create slide shows to present data to higher management.

Operations and Training Clerk

Teaching is my passion, with data, analytics, and statistics as the channel in which I deliver on this passion. 

I enjoy candid conversations mentoring and being mentored. Authenticity matters.

Firm believer that networking is positive when done with genuine curiosity.

Taplio

Ryan Zea's Linkedin Analytics

Ryan Zea

Want to drive more opportunities from LinkedIn?

Taplio

.css-1jgreyo{background-image:linear-gradient(284deg, rgba(39,43,72,1) 0%, rgba(33,47,183,1) 100%);color:transparent;-webkit-background-clip:text;background-clip:text;}Ryan Zea's Linkedin Analytics

Ryan Zea

Want to drive more opportunities from LinkedIn?

Ryan Zea's Linkedin Analytics