• 6 yrs managing analysts and data scientists, roadmaps, and stakeholder relations • 7 yrs recruiting, hiring, training and mentoring early-career analytics team members • 12 yrs as an individual contributor in a professional environment I currently manage a data science team at Meta. I previously worked for eleven years as a data scientist and analyst. Before that, I earned a Ph.D. in planetary geoscience, studying climate processes on Mars. Through my educational and professional background, I’ve developed expertise in a wide variety of analytical, modeling, and statistical methods. I particularly enjoy product, marketing, and financial analytics, dashboarding, and KPI development and tracking (business health monitoring). I have a passion for data visualization. I've been a moderator for http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ and I had a dataviz blog (http://vizual-statistix.tumblr.com/ - no longer working on this). My graphics have been published in books (e.g., The Best American Infographics), magazines (e.g., Wired), and on news sites, including: Washington Post, Huffington Post, City Lab, Flowing Data, Business Insider, Daily Mail, Slate, Gizmodo, Deadspin, and io9. I spend most of my time with tools like SQL, R, Excel, Tableau, Looker, and ArcGIS.