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Rebecca T Barber's Experience:
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Faculty Associate at Arizona State University
January 2013 - Present | Tempe, AZFaculty in the Higher Education Master's program, teaching Higher Education Finance and Budget.
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Senior Director, Management Analysis at Arizona State University
March 2012 - Present | Tempe, AZAnalysis of student, human resources (HR) and financial data. Special analysis projects for the VP of Planning and Budget and the CFO of the University.
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Consulting Data Scientist at PAR Framework
March 2012 - PresentData analysis, data mining and statistical analysis of a higher education data set including more than 3 million individual course records representing more than 250,000 unique students across 6 institutions.
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Adjunct Faculty - Statistics and Psychology at Glendale Community College
January 2007 - May 2012Teaching: Introduction to Psychology (PSY101) Introduction to Statistics including SPSS Lab (PSY230 / PSY231)
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Manager, Academic Analytics at Apollo Group
February 2010 - March 2012 | Phoenix, AZManager, Academic Analytics - Led analysis of a pilot program tying pre-program academic assessments to academic outcomes. Monitored student achievement over time to determine the predictive power of the assessments. - Worked on Gates Foundation/ WCET project to investigate predictive and in-depth analytics of data from multiple institutions. Group includes University of Phoenix, American Public University System, Rio Salado College, University of Hawaii, University of Illinois-Springfield, and Colorado Community Colleges. - Enhanced predictive model created to provide an early warning system for failing students in time for intervention. Worked with academic advisors to pilot the model and validate its predictions. - Led Business Intelligence tool evaluation, including extensive technical comparisons and total cost of ownership analysis. - Led team in the creation of sophisticated analysis related to student engagement, achievement and retention. - Evaluated existing data sources for completeness, correctness and sufficiency for analytic purposes. - Introduced statistical rigor in the analytics process, specifically to clarify the correct interpretation of data elements and prevent misinterpretation and misuse. Associate Director, Financial Planning and Analysis - Provided requirements for the data warehouse development effort in order to meet future analytic needs. - Developed predictive statistical model for enrollment and revenue. Enrollment was accurate within +/- 1% four months out, while revenue was accurate within +/- 2% three months out.
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Business Intelligence Lead at Freeport McMoRan
July 2004 - February 2010 | Phoenix, AZ- Managed multiple concurrent projects, including directing resources and defining schedules. - Statistical analysis of data to improve operational processes and identify trends. - Part of the team that revised the Corporate-wide Operations Financial Forecasting model - Integration, analysis and modeling of operational data, resulting in a 10% improvement in throughput, 6% reduction in power requirements and reduction of a full time employees manual effort with no increase in costs. - Designed and implemented Business Objects universes for a variety of corporate and site-based systems. Focused on integration of disparate data sources to enhance analysis. - Partnered with sites to deliver complex reports and visualizations using Business Objects, Xcelsius 2008, and Microsoft Excel.
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Graduate Research Assistant at Arizona State University
2005 - 2008 | Tempe, AZ- Managed large, complex longitudinal data sets, including preparation for modeling and analysis. Effort including creation of an 8 year longitudinal data set from 8 individual years of data. - Extensive statistical analysis of large data sets, resulting in conference presentations and publications (see page 2). - Coursework includes 21 credit hours in graduate statistics, including Multivariate and Multilevel (Hierarchical Linear) Modeling.
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Manager, Application Development (Data Warehousing) at McKesson Health Solutions
2003 - 2004 | Scottsdale, AZ- Reduced quarterly reporting effort by 6 weeks, saving $100,000 per year through automation. - Negotiated $1,500,000 contract for consulting services and managed their efforts. - Managed and mentored diverse team of varying skill and experience levels, including remote and off-shore team members.
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Director of Information Technology at Cornell University
1999 - 2002 | Ithaca, NYDirector, Information Technology, School of Hotel Administration & the Statler Hotel - Managed $2,500,000 budget for school and hotel. Member of Executive Committee. - Managed project to rewire building, including writing RFP and evaluating responses. - Mentored employees who later were promoted or took on new responsibilities. - Defined strategic plan for hardware, software and applications, saving $100,000 per year. Manager, Data Warehousing, Cornell University - Led evaluation and purchase of campus-wide query tool. Gained cross-campus consensus. - Negotiated $1,000,000+ software contract for database site license. - Developed partnerships with vendors to support ongoing projects. - Defined strategic plan for information delivery to all colleges.