Tobacco cessation
Multiple Epic extracts, a connected data model, and Power BI reporting for referrals, enrollment, and cessation.
Experience & qualifications
Résumé
Download PDFHealthcare data analyst specializing in patient-data preparation, data integration, complex Power BI models, and population-health reporting. I build dashboards, APIs, and web reports that help directors track programs and plan.
Experience
Data Analyst · Ballad Health
February 2023–present · Johnson City, Tennessee
- Support dozens of population-health projects through patient-data cleaning, preprocessing, analysis, and reporting.
- Use Epic daily for chart and EHR review, working with patient, visit, and claims data and related data models.
- Integrate Epic extracts and program data using Power Query; build relationships and DAX measures for complex clinical and operational reports.
- Build APIs to feed Power BI dashboards and develop web reports for population-health analysis.
- Own requirements, data preparation, validation, visualization, publishing, refresh troubleshooting, and stakeholder support.
- Support reporting across tobacco cessation, OB/GYN, health-related social needs, child care operations, and premature mortality.
- Contribute to community health assessment and population-health planning, including the 2024 CHNA process.
Selected projects
Premature mortality / YPLL75
A public analytical report on years of life lost before age 75, built to support population-health planning. Co-contributor: Jacob Blevins.
PopHealth Data Portal
A searchable route to credible county-level indicators and their original sources, developed from CHNA work.
Child care operations
Weekly Power BI reporting for enrollment, waitlists, and capacity across several child care centers.
Technical skills
- Reporting & modeling
- Power BI, DAX, Power Query / M, relational models, data validation
- Data integration & analysis
- SQL / T-SQL, Python, R, pandas, NumPy, APIs
- Epic & healthcare data
- Daily Epic chart and EHR review; patient, visit, and claims data and models; REDCap and Excel
- Privacy & safety
- HIPAA awareness, patient confidentiality, responsible handling of protected health information (PHI), and patient-safety awareness
- Quantitative foundation
- Graduate training in operations research and mathematics; additional machine-learning training
Education
Operations Research, M.S.
North Carolina State University · 2022
Mathematics, M.S.
East Tennessee State University · 2021
Mathematics, B.Sc.
University of Ilorin · 2014
Additional training
Data Science for All · Correlation One · 2023
Machine Learning · Stanford Online · 2022
Python for Data Science and AI; Data Analysis with Python · IBM · 2020
Clinical and operational report examples in this portfolio use synthetic data.