Director, Advanced Analytics Cover Letter

I would like to submit my application for the director, advanced analytics opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for technical and business guidance to the data engineers, data scientists and other advanced analytics resources on solution design, development, delivery, and maintenance.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Experience with enterprise-wide project coordination, project management, facilitation, presentation, and leadership experience
• Experience leading complex, cross-divisional initiatives with direct and in-direct authority
• Experience with budget management including managing outside consultants
• Experience with interacting successfully with senior management and staff across multiple departments
• Knowledge of healthcare information and analytics best practices.TELECOMMUTE, IL - Chicago, TX - Richardson, MT - Helena, OK - Tulsa, NM - Albuquerque
• Experience in business analysis and technology implementation in enterprise environments
• Hands-on, in-depth experience with Apex, VisualForce, SOQL/SOSL, Force.com IDE and Force.com Ajax Toolkit
• Experience implementing or administering Salesforce Automation software in enterprise environments including identifying business requirements, collection of use cases/user stories, process design, testing, training and implementation support

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the director, advanced analytics position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for technical expertise on analytics solution design, development and delivery to stakeholders and position EAS as a key business partner.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Working knowledge of advanced ML techniques (neural networks/deep learning, reinforcement learning, SVM, PCA)
• Comfort communicating and interacting with engineers & data scientists, understanding and translating the science of analytics to a more general audience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an emphasis on effectively presenting technical material to non-technical audiences
• Understanding of digital media planning and buying with a focus on performance measurement
• Exposure to mobile, social, tablet measurement approaches, understanding of role of attribution and cross-device tracking
• Advanced Excel and SQL skills for manipulating large data tables and creating custom queries
• Eden Prairie preferred location
• Advanced knowledge of the areas of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence

I am excited to be applying for the position of director, advanced analytics. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

Previously, I was responsible for subject matter expertise (SME) on business analytics to integrate and align business initiatives with Advance Analytics mandates and objectives.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Knowledge of census and external demographic sources
• Experience analyzing large structured and unstructured data sets using statistical analysis software, such as SAS, SAS Enterprise Miner, Python or R
• Data visualization experience using of or more BI tools
• Prepares management reports defining the problem
• Experience with installing SAS, SPSS, and R platforms and managing them effectively
• Experience integration of Analytical platforms to BigData clusters and Notebooks ( Jupyter, Zeepelin, and iPython)
• Proficiency in structured or unstructured database types and query languages, including but not limited to SQL, MongoDB and Cassandra, HBase, Hive and Pig
• Proficiency with common data science toolkits, such as R, Python, MatLab

I would like to submit my application for the director, advanced analytics opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

Previously, I was responsible for consultative services to help business units and functional leaders identify new opportunities for using advanced analytics.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, Hidden Markov Models
• Experience with data visualization tools, such as D3.js, GGplot, Kibana
• Excellent applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression
• Strategic mindset – be comfortable thinking a few steps ahead of the team and working with business units to translate requirements into tractable research problems
• Strong leadership and influence skills to advance the business usage and application of advanced analytics and confidently defend informed recommendations
• Full Relocation Assistance is available to Wisconsin
• Expert-level experience in data science and visualization toolkits such as R, Python, SAS, Tableau
• Deep understanding of multivariate or time series modeling, clustering, segmentation and Bayesian algorithms

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the director, advanced analytics position.

Previously, I was responsible for industry insight and thought leadership to business and analytics teams to assist the team to achieve business and analytics goals.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Previous experience in health insurance industry
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of SAS with an emphasis on Base SAS, SAS JMP, SAS Enterprise Guide, or SAS Enterprise Miner
• Experience identifying, hiring and leading world-class talent
• A knowledge and/or understanding of Web, Mobile applications, platforms with a global view
• Create prototype applications that prove out and illustrate new technologies and illustrate best practices where needed
• Works with the customers to understand their business processes and data needs
• Strong formal and informal communication skills
• Superb judgment, problem solving and cognitive skills