Barry E. King
DATA SCIENTIST
St. Louis,MO
Summary
- Over thirty years of working with data science and analysis
- Professional philosophy of data-driven decision-making
- I am especially interested in applying my skills to healthcare
Overview
35
35
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Director of Analytics
Qualex Consulting Services
Miami, FL
10.2023 - Current
- Lead a large-scale predictive analytics project using SAS for a Florida-based client, enhancing operational efficiencies. Results were adopted company-wide for mass marketing
- Principal investigator for a National Institutes of Health study on predicting the length of surgeries and then scheduling them using operations research techniques. The project will use 500,000 surgical records to train a predictive model and then apply large-scale operations research models to plan surgeries. Proposal pending
Senior Consultant
Qualex Consulting Services
Miami, FL
03.2014 - 10.2023
- Developed a base stock inventory system for an international client. The system was set into production by the client
- Was the principal investigator and team leader of a team of Qualex Consulting Services consultants to develop a network programming model of food production for a domestic client. The SAS network solution was put into production
Associate Professor
Butler University
Indianapolis, IN
08.1991 - 05.2023
- Department chair for three years with twelve people reporting to me
- Principal investigator on numerous research studies using SAS, R, and Python with faculty and student research assistants
- Taught advanced analytics courses, mentoring the next generations of data scientists and analysts
Education
DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - Operations Management
09.1974 - 05.1979
Dissertation: Master Production Scheduling in the Assemble-to-Order Environment: A Comparison of Two Techniques
MASTER OF SCIENCE - Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
01.1972
Program interrupted by active military service. No degree earned. Coursework completed. Thesis incomplete
BACHELOR OF ARTS - Mathematics
01.1968
Skills
- Descriptive statistics
- Microsoft Excel
- Project management
- Predictive analysis
- R
- SAS
- SQL
- Python
- Operations research
Websites
Relevant Published Research
- King, B.E. (2020), Assigning associates to shifts for an on-site before and after childcare program, International Journal of Recent Engineering Research and Development, 5(6), June 2020, 25-28.
- King, B.E., Pollard, T., Rice, J., & Siegler, J. (2019), Assigning Triaged Patients to Treatment Rooms in a Hospital Emergency Department, International Journal of Clinical & Medical Informatics, vol 2, issue 2, 71-81.
- King, B. E., Leach, A., Platt, M., & White, D. L. (2017). Scheduling surgical operations and the post-anesthesia care unit using work tours and binary programming. AIMS International Journal of Management, 11(1), 101-109.
Timeline
Director of Analytics - Qualex Consulting Services
10.2023 - Current
Senior Consultant - Qualex Consulting Services
03.2014 - 10.2023
Associate Professor - Butler University
08.1991 - 05.2023
INDIANA UNIVERSITY - DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, Operations Management
09.1974 - 05.1979
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS - MASTER OF SCIENCE, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - ST. LOUIS - BACHELOR OF ARTS, Mathematics