Consulting > Experience
Michael McCarthy
Last revised October 12, 2022
Qualification Summary
- Detail-oriented data scientist with 5+ years experience solving business problems with data solutions
- Collected, analyzed, and interpreted data to provide sound basis for strategic business decisions
- Translated business questions into surveys to understand customer engagement and retention, and experiments to understand impact of program changes on ROI
- Presented data-driven insights to business leaders to support business initiatives
- Programmed, tested, and documented RStudio projects for automated, reproducible data cleaning, visualizing, modelling, and reporting
Experience
September 2020 – Present
Research Scientist
University of Calgary
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Calgary AB, Canada
- Communicated complex business and analytical concepts to team members to provide sound basis for strategic business decisions
- Learned and mastered new data analysis concepts and skills quickly to achieve project objectives on time
- Created and led talks and workshops training team members to create reproducible reports with R and R Markdown
- Secured $49,000 in federal and provincial research funding
September 2021 – April 2022
Statistics Teaching Assistant
University of Calgary
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Calgary AB, Canada
- Trained 25 graduate students basic and advanced data analysis, visualization, and reporting in R and R Markdown
- Evaluated and provided feedback to trainees to ensure successful outcomes
- Developed training materials for 18 three hour long sessions
September 2020 – January 2022
Data Scientist
CUPS Calgary
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Calgary AB, Canada
- Conducted an in-depth evaluation of the CUPS Integrated Care Tool to assess its utility for developing integrated care plans and tracking client change
- Developed and deployed an interactive dashboard to facilitate exploratory data analysis of the CUPS Integrated Care Tool in partnership with internal stakeholders
- Presented the Board of Directors with data informed recommendations to improve the utility of the CUPS Integrated Care Tool for integrated care planning and tracking client change
Education
September 2020 – Present
Master of Science, Psychology
University of Calgary
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Calgary AB, Canada
April 2019
Bachelor of Arts, Honours Psychology and Communications
University of the Fraser Valley
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Abbotsford BC, Canada
December 2015
Professional Communication Essentials Certificate
University of the Fraser Valley
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Abbotsford BC, Canada
Skills
Interpersonal Skills
- Communication
- Writing
- Speaking
- Leadership
- Teamwork
- Teaching
- Critical thinking
- Problem solving
Data Skills
- Data collection
- Data cleaning
- Data wrangling
- Data visualization
- Data analysis
- Statistical modelling
- Web Scraping
- APIs
Data Tools
- SQL
- R
- R Markdown
- R Shiny
- Python
- Quarto
- Git
- GitHub
R Skills
- Project-oriented workflows
- Package development
- Unit testing
- Reproducibility
- Automation
Industry Knowledge
- Social sciences
- Non-profits