1. Amanda Ran Yang
175F Centre Street, Apt 606 518-961-9345
Quincy, MA, 02169 www.linkedin.com/in/amandaranyang/ yangran12@gmail.com
SUMMARY
Data Scientist in Facts and Measures, LLC. Master of Science in Business Analytics with a background in marketing and
software engineering. Experience in data analysis, machine learning methods, model building, database designing and
software development. Proficiency in R, SQL, data visualization and related software. Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert.
TECHNICAL SKILLS AND CERTIFICATE
 Certificates: Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) in BI
 Languages: R, SQL, VBA, Javascript, HTML, PHP, CSS, Java
 Tools: R studio, Tableau, SQL Server 2012, Microsoft Power BI, Pivot Table, Splunk, SPSS, MATLAB, Oracle 12c
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Facts and Measures, LLC- Data Scientist July 2014- Till Now
 Conducted visualization, hypothesis test and ANOVA on New York State All Payer Inpatient Quality Indicators data
using Tableau, Power Query, Power Pivot, Power View and Excel;
 Analyzed voter behavior and predicted whether vote or not for next year on Schenectady County Voter information
data (from 2005) using SQL Server Data Tool to process SSIS and SSAS; compared performance among data
mining algorithms including decision tree, clustering, logistic regression and neural network;
 Integrated data and optimized database structure for Financial Capitol group insurance;
 Applied study plans and trained teammates to achieve the MCSA and MCSE certificates;
China National Offshore Oil Corporation, CNOOC- Marketing Department Intern, Guangzhou, China 2012
 Participated as researcher into field-investigation of Guangzhou LPG market and reported analysis of current
situation of LPG promotion using Excel data analysis tool;
 Assisted manager to draft the proposal of enhancing LPG promotion in Guangzhou to government;
BUSINESS AND ANALYTICS PROJECTS
RPI Alumni Survey Study, RPI 2014
 Aimed to explore association rules for alumni donation based on RPI 2013 Alumni Survey data to help investigate
potential donors and develop appropriate method for alumni engagement;
 Applied data cleansing, attribute selection, data partition, classification methods, and C5 algorithm to train data and
establish model in SPSS;
 Concluded 3 major association rules and factors among alumni donors and made recommendation based on results;
Exide Cutting Edge® Garden Tractor Battery Sales Analysis and Prediction, RPI 2014
 Analyzed battery industry and Exide garden tractor battery historical sales data;
 Researched for possible influencing factors for garden tractor battery sales from macro economy level, garden
tractor industry level and battery usage lifetime level;
 Conducted factor analysis, linear regression, time series models, and ARIMA for building up battery sales model
and predict future sales in R and Excel;
Kaggle Project: See Click Predict Fix, RPI 2013
 Aimed to predict how people react to a specific issue posted in 311 system for government to fix or change;
 Conducted data visualization using Tableau to analyze impact variables for prediction;
 Applied data cleansing, and compared prediction results of decision tree, random forest, regression in R;
LEADERSHIP
Career Planning Association, Director of Planning Dept., Guangzhou GDUFS Sept. 2009 - July 2011
 Led team to organize Elite Festival Internship Recruitment Competition partnered with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu,
PWC, Amway China, China Mobile, and Master Kong. Over 1000 students participated in the competition; gained
1st place of Top 10 campus activities and “the best activity of the year”;
EDUCATION
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Lally School of Management, Troy, NY
Master of Business Analytics, Concentration in Marketing, 2014, GPA: 3.8/4.
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), Guangzhou, China
Bachelor of Engineering, Network Engineering, 2013, GPA: 3.31/4
Bachelor of Economics, International Economy and Trade, 2013, GPA: 3.7/4