• Rebecca Badner

    Multilingual gregarious data scientist experienced in international education with a passion for Natural Language Processing, Python and predictive modeling

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  • Experience

    International educator turned data scientist,

    bridging my analytics experience with my love for language

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    Walgreens Co.

    Speech Science Analyst

    Jan 2019 - present

    Responsibilities

    • Produce daily analytics reporting for various IVR applications using PowerBI and Tableau interfaces
    • Data science projects for the natural language interactive voice response(IVR) systems for inbound calls
    • Implement statistical language models, computational frameworks to process data using Python
    • Analyze, tune, and optimize performance of speech recognition applications and develop speech grammars
    • Work with Voice User Interface (VUI) designers and engineers to improve customer experience of IVR applications.
    • Helped launch the new natural language application for all of Walgreens inbound calls, approximately ~47 million calls per year, including collecting and analyzing feedback from customers across the country
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    mcgarrybowen

    Associate Data Analyst, Strategic Planning

    May - August 2018

    Responsibilities

    • Interpret, document and present/communicate analytical results from Google and Adobe Analytics to multiple business disciplines, providing conclusions and recommendations based on customer-centric data
    • Take analytical objectives and define data requirements for internal data projects. Extract, clean and transform large scale client data for the purposes of analysis, segmentation and reporting. 
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    PAX-Program of Academic Exchange

    Regional Support Specialist

    June 2016 - August 2017

    Responsibilities

    • Build and maintained tracking spreadsheets to monitor the SEVIS paperwork for both J-1 and F-1 students
    • Monitor supervision issues for over 300 students per year, ensuring emotional and social success in American schools and homes
    • Update and maintain records for U.S. Department of State J-1 Student Exchange programs, such as the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) and Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange & Study (YES)

    • Promoted to Regional Support Specialist after six months (hired as Team Assistant from June-December 2016)

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    Sprintax

    Customer Insight & Data Analyst

    June 2016 - October 2016

    Responsibilities

    • Analyze international student reports for patterns of behavior and reactions to the system to enhance customer experience
    • Transform qualitative data into quantitative analysis of international student behavior
    • Create reports on 7,500 entires of non-resident tax data from over 130 countries
    • Build spreadsheets and charts to present information to universities in all 50 states, top clients including Ivy League Universities such as Cornell, Columbia, Stamford and University of Pennsylvania
    • Work independently and remotely
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    LicenseLogix, LLC

    Research Analyst

    Sept 2015 - June 2016

    Responsibilities

    • Created and managed research database of over 650 businesses and over 1,000 international jurisdictions
    • Facilitated research partnerships with a variety of businesses, as go - to employee for phone communications
    • Given expanded responsibility in client relations, clients including Walmart, CVS Pharmacy, and Francesca's Clothing
    • Conducted multiple high priority senior level research projects
    • Wrote training manual for incoming research analysts after my research methods proved to be the most effective.
    • Mentor, train and advise new research analysts on analytical procedures
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    French Morning

    Market Research Analyst

    Oct 2015 – June 2016

    Responsibilities

    • Launch market research analysis for Americans wishing to attend university abroad, requiring inquiries to European partners and international education research facilities
    • Create and manage spreadsheets for freelance writers, seasonal programs and research projects
    • Hire a team of international interns and freelance writers (based primarily in France)
    • Expand social media presence of English Edition of French expatriate magazine
    French Embassy

    Teaching Assistantship Program in France (TAPIF)

    English Teaching Assistant

    Oct 2014 – May 2015

    Responsibilities

    • Acted as cultural attaché for American culture in France
    • Planned and led ESL classes and organized group activities for over 200 French high school students, exploring American culture, history and relevant vernacular
    • Managed student attendance database of over 200 students
  • Skills

    Coding Languages

    - Python

    - SQL (mySQL)

    - Git

    - HTML

    Machine Learning

    - Natural Language Processing (vaderSentiment, spacy, nltk, etc.)

    - Predictive modeling (regression and classification, supervised and unsupervised) - webscraping (BeautifulSoup, XML)

    Software

    - Google Analytics Certified

    - Tableau

    - CrimsonHexagon

    - NetBase

    - Adobe Analytics

    Microsoft Office Suite

    Proficient in Excel, Access, Word, Powerpoint, Publisher, etc.

    French

    Level C1

    Italian

    Level B2/C1

    German

    Level B1

    Spanish

    Level A2

  • Education & Training

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    General Assembly - Data Science Immersive

    November 2017 - February 2018

    The program covers skills including: Git, SQL, UNIX, Python, machine learning, data modeling techniques. Exploring the differences between supervised and unsupervised machine learning through the application of various modeling techniques such as classification, regression, and clustering. Create reproducible presentations and reports and use data visualization tools to present your findings to key stakeholders.

     

    https://generalassemb.ly/education/data-science-immersive

     

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    IES Abroad

    Semester Abroad- Siena

    August - December 2012

    Courses on art, history and sociology conducted in Italian while residing with an Italian family. Attained internship with the international office of student affairs at the local university. Participated actively in the local ERASMUS program and related cultural activities.

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    University of Rochester

    Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

    2014

    Crafted a multi disciplinary curriculum focusing on a minor in statistics and mathematics, international exchange and culture, including courses from international relations, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and French, German and Italian languages.

  • Projects

    Projects designed, created and led

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    GitHub Portfolio (Data Science)

    Data science portfolio of projects

    Projects conducted while at the Data Science Immersive course at General Assembly. Projects include data science, predictive modeling, structured and unstructured data modeling, exploratory data analysis(EDA). Projects conducted using SQL and Python 2.7 (including packages such as numpy, scipy, pandas, sklearn).

     

    https://github.com/rbadner

     

     

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    Licensure Compliance

    Built Database

    License Research Packet Database, created for organizing and storing licensure information for all incoming clients beginning in December 2015. Includes state, county and local level licensing for all 50 states and parts of Canada in a variety of industries including pharmacies, IT, construction, trucking, restaurants/cafes, etc.

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