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Email: sonyahseiden@gmail.com

Data professional with 6 years’ experience ready for the next opportunity to tackle complex projects with broad impact. Looking for a leadership role or track as Senior, Team Lead, or Manager.

Key Accomplishments

  • 18 completed contracts and 250+ students trained on SQL, Tableau, and Python at General Assembly
  • Direct involvement in the proposal, design, and implementation of proprietary data processing Python libraries at KBRA & R2net
  • Served as technical Product Owner for both data engineering teams at KBRA
  • Trained 2 data engineers on ratings database, data objects, and key PowerBI & Excel reports at KBRA
  • Built Business Intelligence reporting infrastructure from the ground up at R2Net
  • Hired & trained 5 analysts over 2 years at R2Net

Professional Background

With a background in e-commerce & finance, I have worked on projects for a variety of teams & departments, including: operations, sales, merchandising, manufacturing, logistics, data entry, and finance. My expertise is in overhauling legacy systems by documenting and pooling databases, creating data objects aligned with business logic, and building out scalable reporting systems that can easily adapt to evolving needs across the business.

I am driven by tangible changes that improve employees’ experience and productivity & allow businesses to leverage key data more quickly and accurately.

Skills

To quantify & demonstrate my skillset, I created a list of the languages, tools, and soft skills I have used throughout my work experience and tallied up the frequency of use for each role and turned it into a Tableau dashboard. You can view the full workbook & interactive dashboard here.

This dashboard outlines my experience with programming languages, with detail on flavors of SQL.
Languages

This dash provides an overview of my skills and their share of responsibilities in my previous roles.
Skills

There’s also a detailed view of skills used in roles, grouped by type. Skills-by-job

Academic Experience

B.A., Honors in Art History & Economics (2016)

Franklin University Switzerland

Magna cum laude, 3.69 GPA

Technical Training

Certificate in Product Management (2021)

Featured Project: SecondSeid

Data Science Fellowship (2018)

Featured Project: Modeling CO2 Consumption & Abatement with Bayesian Regression

Certificate in Data Analytics (2018)

Featured Project: Querying Firefox DB

Other

  • Places Lived (in order of time): Honolulu, New York, Switzerland, Rome, Milan
  • Languages: English (native), Italian (advanced), French (proficient)
  • Hobbies: painting & drawing, backgammon, reading, cooking, thrifting
  • Shameless indulgences: reality tv & anything sea salt caramel