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Shayla Mills

El Sobrante,CA

Summary

Data Analyst with 3+ years of experience transforming data into strategic insights to drive business performance. Skilled in developing interactive dashboards, automating workflows, and ensuring data integrity. Proficient in SQL and Power BI, supporting data-driven decisions across functions. Strong background in performance metrics, forecasting, and resource planning. Holds an MSc in Data Analytics with expertise in statistical modeling, data visualization, and business intelligence.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience

Work History

Data Analyst

Proofpoint
2024 - Current
  • Develop and maintain Power BI and Excel dashboards to provide actionable insights for Talent Acquisition teams
  • Automate manual backend processes, improving operational efficiency and reducing errors
  • Present data-driven findings and strategic recommendations to senior executives to enhance decision-making
  • Analyze and visualize recruitment metrics to support hiring strategies and workforce planning
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure data integrity and alignment with organizational objectives
  • Develop Workforce Analytics dashboards and measurement systems, including capacity planning and mapping headcount goals to hiring efforts, resulting in greater data visibility for the CEO and senior executives

Business PgM/Analyst

Google
2022 - 2024
  • Developed and maintained dashboards using SQL and Google Sheets to equip decision-makers with data visibility, for example, created a dashboard visualizing ongoing recruiter capacity based on live hiring data, resulting in the strategic hiring of 2 additional recruiters to rightsize the team
  • Built data tools such as an interview tracker for recruiters in Google Sheets using complex functions and a daily updating SQL export that is now used to schedule future interviews based on current needs by open roles, leading to optimized human resource allocation
  • Led initiatives to refine evaluation metrics, streamline promotion cycles, and support leadership in data-driven decision-making
  • Analyzed and Reported on hiring and promotion programs data insights using SQL and Google Sheets, which led to implementing changes to how we conduct and measure the efficacy of these programs
  • Fulfilled ad-hoc data requests for senior leaders across the people team by performing data wrangling, statistical analyses, and visualization, leading to improved data visibility and enabling data-driven decision-making

People Operations Associate

OneValley
2021 - 2022
  • Conducted cost-value analyses of various hiring channels, thereby optimizing recruitment spend and resource allocation through data-driven decision-making
  • Experimented with different initiatives to improve engagement survey results, resulting in a doubling of eNPS in 6 months from 15 to 36 and a decrease in voluntary turnover to 5%
  • Managed and reported on new hire data using advanced Excel functions and visualization capabilities, improving data accessibility for executives

Education

Master of Science - Data Analytics

Western Governors University
03-2025

Bachelor of Science -

University of Toronto
01-2019

Skills

  • Power BI
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Tableau
  • BigQuery

Timeline

Data Analyst

Proofpoint
2024 - Current

Business PgM/Analyst

Google
2022 - 2024

People Operations Associate

OneValley
2021 - 2022

Master of Science - Data Analytics

Western Governors University

Bachelor of Science -

University of Toronto
Shayla Mills