Biography
As a teenager in Mexico, I played basketball and rocked my guitar with a few local bands. These experiences taught me to persevere and how to be a team player. The skills I instilled growing up are evident as I grow my professional career as a data scientist.
During my professional career as a data scientist and engineer, I have not only revamped my soft skills, but I have also demonstrated competitiveness using my analytical and technical skills in several projects and an internship at LinkedIn.
To me data science is a field that requires:
- Great technical skills and adaptability to new technologies
- Impeccable communication and leadership skills
- Demonstrate curiosity and initiative
Accomplishments that demonstrate my expertise in the above categories are:
- Wrote efficient queries to identify customer’s acquisition and spending behaviors from 100M+ records; used analysis to obtain buy-in for plan that established the department’s marketing strategy baseline
- Created a community college initiative to grow the numbers of Hispanic in STEM transferring to 4-year universities
- Received the SHPE Technical Achievement Recognition: Student Role Model of the Year, which is the highest award to an undergraduate student from SHPE at a National Level
Opportunities that allow me to find meaningful insights from data trigger my curiosity, and I strive to find immediate actions for business partners to accomplish business goals.
Specialties: Data science, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, predictive modeling, python, SQL, six sigma, and visualizations
You can also look at my portfolio, where I include information about my career as a data scientist. Portfolio: joseluisestrada.com Email: joseestrada@sandiego.edu
Download my resumé.
- Data Science
- Machine Learning
- Cloud Computing
- Mentoring
- Databases
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M.S. in Applied Data Science, 2022
University of San Diego
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B.S. and B.A. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2019
University of San Diego
Skills
Professional Experience
Responsibilities include:
- Developed 2 workshops to provide business case examples highlighting the benefits of using R and Python in data science
- Facilitated advanced hands-on R and Python workshops for 30+ data science students in the master’s program
- Mentored 10+ students in creating action a plan for internship and entry job search in the data science field
Responsibilities include:
- Wrote efficient queries to identify customer’s acquisition and spending behaviors from 100M+ records; used analysis to obtain buy-in for plan that established the department’s marketing strategy baseline
- Identified marketing channels that convert the highest revenue per customer and provided management with recommendations for marketing strategy to acquire >500k new customers by FY23
- Analyzed customer acquisition funnel identifying system bottlenecks and comparing customer segmentations that increased understanding of constraint to contributed to line of business goal of 1% point decrease in YoY churn rate
Responsibilities include:
- Researched and updated list of 50+ original equipment manufacturer (OEM) parts for beta version prototype by tabulating data on Excel for leadership to implement in existing part management system
- Reduced 4% of manufacturing costs by negotiating with 5 vendors to restock OEM parts for 25 prototype guitars
- Assisted the team to sell the first 100 Ciari Ascender guitars at the NAMM show through client engagement
Responsibilities include:
- Created the sorting system assembly manual to standardize the process, maximize quality, and reduce lead time by reaching consensus with different stakeholders to mitigate delays in shipment and assembly
- Inspected sorting system defects at customer’s distribution center to improve operations by 3%
- Restructured a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and defined the project’s life cycle to identify the project timeline
Leadership Experience
Responsibilities include:
- Managed, as a member of Board of Directors, the SHPE National Strategic Plan, staff including CEO of the organization, $7M annual budget and over 12K members
- Provided guidance to the CEO hiring process, seven national committees, and the largest national Hispanic Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) conference with 7K attendees
- Created the Community College Initiative to grow the number of Hispanic engineers in the workforce
Responsibilities include:
- Created and managed a conference track committee that created the workshop’s abstracts and that recruited the speakers
- Provided guidance on the development of 4 workshops for a total of 50+ community college participants
- Delivered status reports to the National Conference committee of the development and logistics of the program
Responsibilities include:
- Increased the profits of the chapter by 80%, and membership by 50% from the previous fiscal year
- Organized 10 community outreach events for >500 total K-12 students across California
- Increased the number of students transferring to 4-year institutions from 3 to 20+ in 2015
- Achieved the Associated Student Organization Club of Year for the first time in 30+ years
