Kyle Ford
Summary
Highly motivated and detailed-oriented candidate passionate about using data to improve business performance and customer experience. Skilled at leveraging data to develop actionable solutions to business challenges and utilizing data mining and data visualization to create meaningful insights. Excellent technical aptitude and knowledge of programming languages, data analytics and data visualization.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Business Intelligence Analyst
Unum
06.2024 - Current
- Reduced manual data entry errors by automating routine tasks using SQL scripts and ETL tools.
- Designed customized data collection models for specific visualization tasks.
- Created and maintained transformed data assets for a variety of finance related data tables.
- Aided in the 2025 Sales Goal Allocation process by performing data analysis using Tableau to unearth historical sales trends to inform recommendations.
Carrier Development Analyst
Kenco Logistics
02.2023 - Current
● Identified inefficiencies in spend to market, leading to a reduction of 25% in truckload spend over a two-month timespan.
● Implemented a BI dashboard using Qlik BI software to measure customer spend to market across all customers in the department.
● Performed data validation for a dashboard using Qlik BI software to measure primary carrier use, leading to more efficient carrier selection.
● Converted manual Excel reports into Python Google Colab notebooks, reducing manual processes and improving computational performance.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science: Data Science
The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN08.2023
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
Tennessee Wesleyan University
Athens, TN05.2017
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Data Analysis
- Fluency in C, Python, Java, R, SQL, Tableau
- Jupyter Notebook
- Statistical Analysis
- Machine Learning Libraries Scikit-learn, Tensorflow, PyTorch
- Data Mining
- Data Validation
- Data Visualization
- Process Improvement
- Technical Writing
- Data Quality Assurance Processes
Project Work
- CNN Mini-VGG Model to predict flooding in Google satellite imaging.
- LSTM model to generate text from Alice in Wonderland
- Scikit-Learn Logistic Regression model to classify the winner of NFL games.
- MLP, SVM, KNN neural networks to classify text files by language.
- SQL project analyzing sales data of a music record store.
Timeline
Business Intelligence Analyst
Unum
06.2024 - Current
Carrier Development Analyst
Kenco Logistics
02.2023 - Current
Master of Science - Computer Science: Data Science
The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
Tennessee Wesleyan University
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