About

Ronisha Harvey is an experienced data analytics professional who specializes in data analysis, visualization, and automation. Her technical skills are complemented by a strong commitment to education and mentorship, as demonstrated by her work as an analytics instructor and mentor. She earned her Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan where she focused her studies on international relations. Ronisha worked internationally with Peace Corps Morocco and Ecuador, and she speaks Spanish, French, and Moroccan Darija.

Skills

- Data Visualization

- Analysis

- Automation

- ETL

- Data Modeling

- Teaching

- Mentoring

- Curriculum Development

Tools

- SQL

- Python

- JavaScript

- PHP

- Power BI

- Tableau

- Alteryx

- Excel

- Google BigQuery

- AWS S3

- AWS Glue

- Amazon Redshift

Hobbies & Interests

Volunteering

Travel

Yoga

Gardening

Resume

Work Experience

Analyst

Remote MN | 2024 - present

  • Develop and maintain Alteryx workflows which automate and streamline financial and supply chain reporting
  • Write, test, and optimize SQL queries to identify discrepancies and inefficiencies pertaining to requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, and payments, leading to timely issue resolution and improved financial controls
  • Design and implement self-service analytics tools allowing business users to extract data independently, improving data accessibility and expediting decision making
  • Create and manage a centralized SharePoint report catalog which promotes report discoverability, usage tracking, and data literacy across various teams
  • Design and develop interactive Tableau dashboards to visualize vendor and employee productivity in resolving purchase and payment issues, enabling leadership and business users to identify bottlenecks

DATA ANALYTICS INSTRUCTOR

Remote NYC | 2022 - present

  • Create engaging instructional materials aligned with industry standards and best practices
  • Teach Excel, SQL, Python, AWS and Tableau preparing students for entry-level Data Analytics roles
  • Guide students through a wide array of analytics project areas, including finance, media, and sports
  • Evaluate student assignments and provide feedback and support as needed

DATA ANALYTICS ENGINEER

Bloomington, MN | 2019 - 2024

  • Managed a budgeting software upgrade, which resulted in improved security, a more streamlined process, and zero outages during the company’s fiscal year budgeting process
  • Develop and lead a process ensuring that data is properly managed during mergers, acquisitions, and software migrations, resulting in timely and accurate data transfers with minimal downtime
  • Serve as project manager and data liaison for the implementation of a large-scale payment processing application
  • Operate as the firm’s primary contact for internal data cleaning, harmonization, and engineering, increasing communication across nine product lines
  • Designed, created, and currently maintaining a SQL database used to analyze client data from seven sources, establishing data harmonization and improving the ability to track several hundred million dollars in revenue and KPIs across office locations and product lines
  • Created monthly automated reporting using Python to encourage firmwide cybersecurity awareness which led to a 14% increase in employees reporting phishing email attempts in four months
  • Supervised interns by monitoring their progress and providing training on technical and industry topics to help ease their transition into permanent roles

DATA ANALYTICS MENTOR

Remote Kansas City | 2022

  • Led discussions and exercises in SQL, Python and Tableau to reinforce technical concepts introduced in lectures and self-taught learning
  • Assessed student assignments and projects, providing guidance to ensure that they met or exceeded course requirements

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST

Beni Mellal, Morocco | 2018 - 2019

  • Developed the curriculum for and conducted life skills workshops on topics such as resume writing and budgeting for university students
  • Conducted computing workshops for high school students on topics such as the Microsoft Office Suite, internet privacy, and effective internet searches.
  • Provided English tutoring to high school and university students. Sessions included grammar and vocabulary review, writing and speaking practice, as well as cultural discussions
  • Facilitated extracurricular activities for young women residing in student housing

SQL DEVELOPER

Detroit, MI | 2015 - 2018

  • Created dashboards and automated reports, using Power BI and SSRS, empowering mid-senior leadership to make effective business decisions
  • Wrote, tested, debugged and performance-tuned SQL code for stored procedures used in data marts, enabling firmwide use of self-service data tools
  • Answered business questions regarding product pipelines and service turn-around times, by gathering requirements and writing ad hoc SQL queries
  • Created and executed an optimized process for submitting report requests through researching the existing process which for submitting report requests and subsequently created and executed an optimized process that minimized the back-and-forth communication between report requestors, business analysts, and developers
  • Provided reporting recommendations to business users
  • Led interns and junior-level developers in projects of varying scope, to help prepare them for full-time positions at the firm

Risk Management Project Coordinator

Detroit, MI | 2015

  • Performed risk assessments using the Factor Analysis of Information Risk methodology and issued reports outlining potential risk and recommendations for mitigating said risk
  • Gathered external risk information to incorporate into risk assessments and reporting by monitoring news sites, government releases and industry publications
  • Created monthly reports which quantified company risk and monitored remediation plans to help inform decisions made by senior leadership
  • Monitored internal risk metrics and remediation plans and incorporated this information into risk assessments and reporting
  • Provided training for using risk monitoring software
  • Customized the risk monitoring software interface based on user and business needs

Certifications

Alteryx Designer Core Certified

Alteryx | September 2024

Advanced Data Analytics Certificate: Predictive Analytics

LaGuardia Community College | July 2024

DS4A Data Engineering Honors Certificate

Correlation One | August 2023

Education

Master of Public Policy

University of Michigan

  • Coursework included Foreign Policy, Economics, Statistics

B.S., Wellness, Health Promotion

B.A., Psychology

Oakland University