Arsal Munawar
Ellicott City,MD
Summary
Senior Data Scientist with six years of experience exploiting data in the financial, health care, public safety, and non-profit sectors. Key strengths include statistical and investigative analysis. Excellent critical thinking and communication skills, and experience working with various levels of government and law enforcement entities.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Data Scientist
Peraton, Supporting the CMS
07.2023 - Current
- Audit fraud-detection machine learning algorithms and metadata for functionality and accuracy prior to deployment
- Debug and maintain a search tool used by investigators to research claims, billing, and provider data
- Learned how to interpret Medicare and Medicaid data to detect indicators that drive its fraud, waste, and abuse
- Consult on Neo4j use cases and implementation to equip stakeholders with a link analysis solution
Data Scientist II
Peraton, supporting the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC)
10.2021 - 07.2023
- Held a public trust clearance in order to handle sensitive data in compliance with federal guidelines
- Conducted over 90 investigations using FinCEN, Accurint, Voyager, Neo4j, and open source tools which uncovered at least $150M in fraudulent pandemic relief spending, and led to multiple indictments, arrests, and guilty pleas
- Developed over 15 Python, and SQL scripts in order to perform exploratory analysis, automate data cleansing and aggregation processes, and generate statistics for public facing dashboards
- Served as the lead investigative analyst and communicated research to stakeholders from the United States Secret Service, FBI, State's Attorney's Offices, and the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force
- Collaborated with federal stakeholders from the US Secret Service, FBI, and PRAC to understand requirements for investigations and ad-hoc requests
- Applied NLP techniques to unstructured text in order to gain insight and provide summary statistics to stakeholders
- Identified risk indicators to increase fraud detection capabilities which required in-depth knowledge of government funding eligibility requirements, geolocation data, business structure, and financial and real estate transactions
- Performed quarterly quality control reviews using Databricks on new data ingested into existing databases
- Managed a Databricks repository which geolocated over 5 million IP addresses via API calls
- Helped implement and refine Neo4j search algorithms for the purpose of link analysis
- Conducted COTS tools trade-off analyses and recommended analytic products which best fit project needs
Health Informatics Analyst II
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
12.2020 - 10.2021
- Developed queries in SQL Server and Snowflake to provide reliable data in support of over 200 fraud investigations, subpoenas, and external audits, which required knowledge of CPT and ICD-10 codes
- Performed UAT and communicate defects to ensure an accurate migration from SQL Server to Snowflake
- Assisted in the development of and train customers in the use of a self-service tool which grants instant access to semantic data
- Served as a resource for stakeholders requesting sensitive data and inquiring about data structure and capabilities.
Research Analyst II
Baltimore Police Department
04.2019 - 12.2020
- Formulated a data-driven policing strategy and guided its implementation through KPI tracking which lead to a 28% reduction in crime in Baltimore's Eastern District in 2020
- Developed over 20 Python scripts and Tableau dashboards to perform exploratory, descriptive, and predictive analysis, automate data processes, generate reports, and communicate results
- Conducted statistical and link analysis in IBM i2 to support time-sensitive police investigations
- Served as the point of contact for all data analysis inquiries and fulfill ad-hoc requests from internal and external entities such as the Baltimore Police Commissioner, Johns Hopkins Hospital, security companies, and real estate developers.
Outreach Coordinator
ICNA Relief USA (Islamic Circle of North America Relief)
06.2017 - 03.2019
- Performed revenue analysis and implemented effective marketing strategies which lead to an increase in gross income by 31% and raised the average donation value by 62% from 2017 to 2018
- Wrote SQL and Salesforce queries to measure retention rates and donor statistics to provide actionable insight
- Utilized Tableau to create dashboards, charts, and visuals for presentation to executives and donors
- Budgeted and managed over 25 community service programs and served as a lead for over 300 volunteers and staff.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
Baltimore, MD12.2018
Bachelor of Arts - Biology
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
Baltimore, MD12.2018
Skills
- Accurint
- FinCEN
- Voyager
- Neustar
- Tableau
- PowerBI
- Python
- SQL
- Neo4j
- ArcGIS
Certification
Data Analytics in Business, Georgia Tech, 08/01/20
Timeline
Senior Data Scientist
Peraton, Supporting the CMS
07.2023 - Current
Data Scientist II
Peraton, supporting the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC)
10.2021 - 07.2023
Health Informatics Analyst II
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
12.2020 - 10.2021
Research Analyst II
Baltimore Police Department
04.2019 - 12.2020
Outreach Coordinator
ICNA Relief USA (Islamic Circle of North America Relief)
06.2017 - 03.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
Bachelor of Arts - Biology
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)