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Eric Ghaly

Sicklerville,NJ

Summary

Analytical professional with a strong background in Threat Analysis and Risk Management. Known for delivering impactful insights through data visualization and comprehensive audits, ready to support security initiatives and compliance objectives.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Security Analyst

Rail Transport Engineering, P.C.
05.2025 - Current
  • Provide support to a team performing oversight on train control projects
  • Evaluate procedure to develop and validate safety critical databases for train control systems
  • Assess reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) analysts submitted by contractors
  • Review procedures that involve the linking of requirements to design elements
  • Test procedures to ensure that proposed system elements meet the need of the user
  • Examine documents related to CBTC safety certification processes such as: Hazard Logs, Certifiable Item Lists, and Final Safety Reports
  • Perform audits of Vital Database Management, System & Subsystem Safety Reviews

Data Management Analyst

Party City
05.2022 - 03.2025
  • Lead on creation of reporting tools through the use of Microsoft Excel and SQL Queries to analyze product attribution data and enhance data consistency across retail systems
  • Partnered with cross-functional teams to identify data gaps, streamline data workflows, and implement process improvements
  • Maintained and updated high volume SKU data in the POS system, ensuring accurate product pricing, costs, and categorization
  • Conducted comprehensive data audits using SQL queries and personally created Python scripts to identify and resolve discrepancies
  • Utilized Python scripts for data cleaning, transformation, and exploratory analysis to support business insights and reporting needs
  • Contributed greatly to data governance initiatives by standardizing product attribution logic, thus supporting company wide reporting accuracy
  • Integral in the testing and validation of new system enhancements, ensuring data integrity through QA best practices
  • Independently managed markdown analysis and pricing data for a 20+ location retail liquidation, successfully clearing the majority of inventory across simultaneous store timelines averaging 4–6 weeks each

Data Analyst Consultant

Rail Transport Engineering
06.2020 - 07.2024
  • Supported Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) with their CBTC projects by managing hazard logs, risk assessments, and schedule monitoring
  • Conducted queries to summarize operational scenarios, as well as categorize data for use in quantitative risk assessment
  • Analyzed database files to assess the frequency of CBTC subsystem failures for use in escalated analysis

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computational Science

Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY

Skills

    Network security

    Threat Analysis & Risk Management

    Security Compliance Frameworks

    Cloud Security Concepts

    Identity & Access Management

    Data Cleaning & Transformation

    Statistical Analysis

    Data Visualization

    Python Scripting

    SQL Query Building

    Business Intelligence Reporting

    Applied Machine Learning

    AI Fundamentals

    Responsible AI Practices

    Prompt Engineering

    Systems Design Principles

    Scalability & Reliability Planning

    Database Design

Certification

Security+, CompTIA - March 2026

SC-900, Microsoft - December 2025

Cybersecurity, Google - December 2025

AI Essentials Specialization, Google - December 2025

Applied Data Science Program, MIT - January 2025

Systems Design, Cornell University - May 2023

Data Analysis, Google - March 2022

Software

Microsoft Office Suite

Tableau

PowerBI

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Photoshop

OBS Studio

Timeline

Security Analyst

Rail Transport Engineering, P.C.
05.2025 - Current

Data Management Analyst

Party City
05.2022 - 03.2025

Data Analyst Consultant

Rail Transport Engineering
06.2020 - 07.2024

Bachelor of Science - Computational Science

Ithaca College