About

Work experience, the data portfolio, and coursework — the fuller version of the resume.

Work

I'm currently an Equity Trader at William Hill / Caesars Sportsbook in Las Vegas, where I've spent the last two years building the data infrastructure behind pricing decisions — performance monitoring systems in Excel, Python, R, and Power BI that track KPIs across NBA, NFL, and NCAAF markets, and a comparative research pipeline that checks our lines against projections from top predictive thinktanks. That pipeline alone moved annual metrics 1–3% across three markets.

Before this, I was an HR Data Analyst at Nance Staffing, where I taught myself to think like an engineer as much as an analyst — writing Python scripts to automate quality control on 10,000+ monthly applicants, and designing the MySQL database architecture that made structured reporting possible in the first place. Before that database existed, this analysis didn't either.

None of this started with data, though. I studied Anthropology at UNC Greensboro, ran a small café in Greensboro for two years, then spent five years abroad in South Korea teaching English — first at Reading Town, then as Head Teacher at Lingua Academy. In between, I worked as a Case Aide at World Relief, helping resettled refugee families navigate the practical machinery of starting over: paperwork, appointments, service coordination, the day-to-day logistics of building a life in a new country. It's not the usual path into data analytics, but each step left something behind. Anthropology trained me to look for the pattern behind the behavior, not just the behavior itself. Teaching forced me to take something complex and make it click for someone starting from zero — the same skill that goes into explaining a model to a stakeholder who doesn't care how it works, only what it means. And case work meant every data point I touched was a person, not a row — a habit I haven't shaken since.

Full work history, education, and skills: resume (PDF).

Education

M.S. in Data Analytics — Colorado State University Global Campus, June 2023
B.A. in Anthropology — UNC Greensboro, December 2015

Anthropology is, at its core, the study of finding patterns in human behavior — which turns out to be most of what data analytics is too, just with numbers instead of fieldwork. The MS was a deliberate, later addition: I chose an online, working-professional program specifically so I could make the shift into analytics without stepping away from full-time work to do it.

Side Hustles

I still tutor ESL on the side — five years of teaching abroad turned out to be a habit I didn't want to fully put down, even after the data career took over.

📖 Also: writing novels. Unpublished, unhurried, coming eventually.

Data Portfolio

MOOCs & Certifications