Consulting > Experience
Michael McCarthy
Last revised February 18, 2024
Qualification Summary
- Detail-oriented data scientist with 5+ years experience solving business problems with data solutions
- Collected, analyzed, and interpreted data to provide sound basis for strategic business decisions
- Translated business questions into surveys to understand customer engagement and retention, and experiments to understand impact of program changes on ROI
- Presented data-driven insights to business leaders to support business initiatives
- Programmed, tested, and documented RStudio projects for automated, reproducible data cleaning, visualizing, modelling, and reporting
Experience
September 2020 – February 2024
Research Scientist
University of Calgary
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Calgary AB, Canada
- Communicated complex business and analytical concepts to team members to provide sound basis for strategic business decisions
- Learned and mastered new data analysis concepts and skills quickly to achieve project objectives on time
- Created and led talks and workshops training team members to create reproducible reports with R and R Markdown
- Secured $49,000 in federal and provincial research funding
September 2021 – April 2022
Statistics Teaching Assistant
University of Calgary
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Calgary AB, Canada
- Trained 25 graduate students basic and advanced data analysis, visualization, and reporting in R and R Markdown
- Evaluated and provided feedback to trainees to ensure successful outcomes
- Developed training materials for 18 three hour long sessions
September 2020 – January 2022
Data Scientist
CUPS Calgary
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Calgary AB, Canada
- Conducted an in-depth evaluation of the CUPS Integrated Care Tool to assess its utility for developing integrated care plans and tracking client change
- Developed and deployed an interactive dashboard to facilitate exploratory data analysis of the CUPS Integrated Care Tool in partnership with internal stakeholders
- Presented the Board of Directors with data informed recommendations to improve the utility of the CUPS Integrated Care Tool for integrated care planning and tracking client change
Education
February 2024
Master of Science, Psychology
University of Calgary
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Calgary AB, Canada
April 2019
Bachelor of Arts, Honours Psychology and Communications
University of the Fraser Valley
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Abbotsford BC, Canada
December 2015
Professional Communication Essentials Certificate
University of the Fraser Valley
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Abbotsford BC, Canada
Honours and Awards
January 2022
Graduate Studies Scholarship
Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Calgary
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Calgary AB, Canada
May 2021
Canada Graduate Scholarship (Masters)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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Canada
May 2021
Master's Research Scholarship
Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Calgary
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Calgary AB, Canada
August 2020
Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
Alberta Student Aid
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Calgary AB, Canada
August 2019
Certificate of Academic Excellence
Canadian Psychological Association
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Canada
April 2018
Dean of the College of Arts Award
University of the Fraser Valley
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Abbotsford BC, Canada
April 2018
Undergraduate Research Excellence Award
University of the Fraser Valley
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Abbotsford BC, Canada
Skills
Interpersonal Skills
- Communication
- Writing
- Speaking
- Leadership
- Teamwork
- Teaching
- Critical thinking
- Problem solving
Data Skills
- Data collection
- Data cleaning
- Data wrangling
- Data visualization
- Data analysis
- Statistical modelling
- Web Scraping
- APIs
Data Tools
- SQL
- R
- R Markdown
- R Shiny
- Python
- Quarto
- Git
- GitHub
R Skills
- Project-oriented workflows
- Package development
- Unit testing
- Reproducibility
- Automation
Industry Knowledge
- Neuroscience
- Social science
- Non-profits