Kyle Whipple
Oklahoma City,OK
Summary
I am a data leader who helps companies leverage their data to reduce costs and increase profits. I strive to build data culture by developing a bridge between business and technology.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Data Services
State of Oklahoma
09.2020 - Current
- Implementing the State’s data strategy
- Building and providing strategic direction for the Data Services Team
- Leading the effort to build the State Data Platform and enabling data driven decisions
- Optimizing data services delivery within the constraints of the budget
- Managing employees in a diverse range of disciplines: data science, analytics, governance, reporting, engineering, and DBA
- Holding employees accountable for delivery of services and projects within an Agile environment in the above disciplines
- Driving the State’s data governance effort across multiple agencies
- Providing framework for managers to successfully deliver enterprise-scale projects such as Workday/Brightpath
- Cut costs by implementing an automated work ticket assignment system using a large language model solution
- Streamlined manual purchase card review using a classification model to free up labor and cut cost at the State
- Managing vendors and holding them accountable for project work
- Ensuring solutions adhere to state architecture and standards
- Enabling employees’ success through training expectations, open communication, and positive work environment
- Performing outreach to agency staff, executives, and other key stakeholders (governments, private businesses, conferences) to present data services and the state data strategy
- Reaching out across towers on complex data-oriented issues: encryption via security, data archiving and retention via apps team, legacy data, legacy reporting, provisioning and security for state data platform, API integration, monitoring, data science and modeling
- Providing vision and guidance on key data initiatives: Health Information Exchange, State Data Platform, Health Contact Tracing, DHS True North Initiative, etc.
Data Science Manager
Sonic Drive-In/Inspire Brands
02.2016 - 06.2020
- Polaris Project: Acted as product owner for Sonic recommender system and lift analysis in the Polaris 1:1 marketing initiative
- Aligned key stakeholders including Sonic 1:1 marketing team, data engineering, data science, and measurement analysts
- Provided prioritization of goals for machine learning engine and coordinated lift analysis between Sonic, Inspire Brands, and Boston Consulting Group
- Directed and enabled adaptation of Recommender System code to align with key business objectives
- Commercial Revenue Project: Tasked by the Chief Marketing Officer to increase revenue driven by commercial executions
- Determined key revenue drivers in commercials through survey data
- Quantified survey data and used a random forest model in R to predict revenue and determine highest variable importance for desirability
- Recommendations were implemented resulting in major changes to commercial shooting; commercial revenue increased by 5% in the first quarter implemented
- Customer Attrition Model Project: The data science team worked in conjunction with the data engineering team to produce a machine learning model capable of identifying which mobile customers were about to reduce their buying frequency
- Created a model utilizing a customized version of the BOYD Python package (translated to Scala for distributivity), to output the likelihood a customer will visit based on recent purchase history, frequency, and pattern of their purchases
- Presented the model to senior leadership and key stakeholders to achieve awareness of its capabilities, resulting in the implementation of the model through the deployment platform
- Managed the relationship between the targeted marketing team and the data science team to implement this feature as well as other features into a targeted marketing strategy
- Direct Reports: 1 data scientist, 1 data analyst, 3 data science interns
- Supervised, trained, and mentored employees in data and analytics ensuring successful completion of projects and tasks.
Data Analyst
Sandridge Energy Inc
10.2012 - 02.2016
- Partnered with production engineers, foremen, and IT to collect, organize, and analyze financial and production data to optimize performance and production
- Developed automated reports using SQL queries to analyze oil well production
- Led projects analyzing well failures based on bimodal probability distributions and well interference patterns.
Instructor
ITT Technical Institute
09.2007 - 09.2012
- Educated a diverse range of students in mathematics, physics, and general science
- Improved student performance in the classroom by integrating theory and hands-on practice
- Mentored and tutored students to help them reach their academic and personal goals.
Education
Master of Science in Meteorology -
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
Bachelor of Science in Physics -
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
Skills
Business Requirements
- Communication
- Communication Training
- Data Governance
- Data Quality
- Data Strategies
- Drive Change
- Problem Solving
- Strategic Vision
- Analytics
- Business Analysis
- Business Intelligence (BI)
- Data Warehousing
- Leadership
- Management
- Project Management
- People Management
- Strategic Planning
- SQL
- Organizational Development
- Budget Control and Management
- Verbal and written communication
Timeline
Director of Data Services
State of Oklahoma
09.2020 - Current
Data Science Manager
Sonic Drive-In/Inspire Brands
02.2016 - 06.2020
Data Analyst
Sandridge Energy Inc
10.2012 - 02.2016
Instructor
ITT Technical Institute
09.2007 - 09.2012
Master of Science in Meteorology -
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
Bachelor of Science in Physics -
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
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