Who am I?

Outside of existentialism and metaphysics, I’m Arik, a Marketing and Business Analytics student with a passion for data and acting on it. I love to know why things happen, why people decide the things they do, and how information can support those conclusions to build meaningful insights that change the lives of real people. I’ve lived in: Ohio, Utah, Northern and Southern California, Florida, Georgia, Mexico City, and Spain.

Academics

B.S in Marketing with a minor in Data Analytics (Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati)

Professional Experience

see LinkedIn profile for more information

Supply Chain Analyst

Kroger

  • Mentored under Lead Data Scientist on the Supply Chain Analytics team at Kroger
  • Utilized Microsoft Azure with Databricks to follow an ETL process using product volume data for 1,642 distribution centers, sorting millions of shipment data points to maintain 98% data integrity in our databases
  • Organized Databricks storehouses connections directly with Tableau and PowerBI
  • Built dashboards to visualize volume threshold over time with year to year comparison to help predict future purchasing trends
  • Created seamless user experience to obtain data-driven insights from back-end to front-end

Data Analyst

Enrollment Management Services

  • Created automated application to process risk management HTML survey data for 20 different customers and upload results into Oracle database
  • Gathered and visualize archived data from more than 40 clients to demonstrate value of risk management services to new and existing customers based on metrics

Experience with R

I am a new R user, beginning with this class! I love to problem solve with code, and the opportunity to learn another language will be a useful skill for me to have, and a great learning experience to expand my capacity to ideate solutions within an IDE.

Other Analytical Software Experience

I have used PowerBI and Tableau for a couple of years. My primary skills on these platforms are, but are not limited to:

  • building interactive dashboards
  • creating meaningful visuals that are based on specific client needs
  • building these visuals from a variety of input sources, from on-prem SQL databases, Oracle databases, and even on the cloud with Microsoft Azure and Databricks.
  • using DAX coding language to build user-specified features.