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Robert Brown

Epidemiologist

Alameda County Public Health Department

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Python Fundamentals

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Introduction to Python

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Python Fundamentals

Machine learning whisperer, taming algorithms to reveal their secrets.

My Work

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Introduction to R

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Introduction to Python

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Intermediate Python

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Introduction to R

DataCamp Course Completion

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Introduction to Python
Introduction to R
Intermediate Python
Data Manipulation with pandas

My Work Experience

Where I've interned and worked during my career.

Berlin Brands Group | Oct 2021 - May 2022

Data Engineer

• Created and implemented computing, reporting, and ETL infrastructure. • Collaborated to develop Django application, leveraging various AWS products to monitor purchase behavior and predict future revenue growth.
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Los Angeles County Department of Public Health | Jan 2021 - Oct 2021

Data Scientist

• Created multiple interactive internal and public facing dashboards displaying infectious disease data for Los Angeles County. • Developed a whole genome sequencing (WGS) database and implemented ETL pipelines in Airflow processing tens of inputs and 100's of GB's of epidemiologic, genomic sequence data and associated metadata. • Built analytical capacity and helped teams epidemiologists adopt new tooling to automate and improve their workflows.

Alameda County Public Health Department | Aug 2019 - Aug 2021

Epidemiologist II

• Developed time-series, clustering and predictive analytic reports and dashboards using R, SQL, ArcGIS and SAS to track spread and prevalence of 70+ communicable diseases, such as HIV, TB and COVID-19, in Alameda county. • Provided leadership for the Incident Command System (ICS) response for the county against COVID-19 as the Data Branch Chief, managing up to 25 staff members including other epidemiologists, analysts and project staff • Built the counties first COVID-19 case and contact investigation database, that contained over 15,000 records and 120 users complete with batch file versioning, a SQL Server backend, and many advanced VBA features

Insight Data Science | Sep 2020 - Nov 2020

Health Data Science Fellow

• Consulted with an organization to provide a churn model using client records. • Used advanced SQL querying to aggregate together 10+ tables, and used contextual knowledge to engineer features such as an engagement score to increase model performance. • Used survivor analysis to generate a probability of churning over time as well as built a binary classifier using logistic regression with lasso regularization to achieve 78% ROC AUC.

Trilogy Education | Jul 2019 - Jul 2020

Substitute Instructor & TA, Data Analytics

• Assisted teaching fundamentals of computer science, programming, Git, Bash, data munging, visualization, web development, project management, and machine learning to multiple different cohorts of students through the UC Berkeley Data Analytics Boot Camp.

Alameda County Public Health Department | Aug 2018 - Aug 2019

Data-to-Care Specialist

• Managed the HIV Data-to-Care program for the county, leveraging various case management and surveillance data with integrated inter-departmental work-flows to increase the number of HIV positive residents in care. • Responsible for maintenance of program management database for front-line disease investigators as well as reporting HIV related metrics and analysis of HIV data via SAS and R.

Method Data Science | Nov 2018 - Apr 2019

Resident Data Scientist

• Created an ensemble machine learning algorithm (R) to predict if and when a hip replacement surgery will be needed using EHR and insurance data for a Bay Area biotech start-up with 77% AUC. • Developed a Dash (Python) dashboard using unsupervised learning to segment customers to create targeted marketing resulting in 13% increase in customer base within 6 months.

California Rural Indian Health Board | Oct 2017 - Aug 2018

Epidemiologist

• Developed state wide data collection and disease surveillance tools, work scopes and schedules for relevant staff, as well as provided TA, IRB and data management, and wrote complex contracts and grants to secure future funding. • Developed databases, advanced SQL queries, technical reports, spatial data overlays & maps, tables & figures in R & Tableau, as well as data linkages.

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center | Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

Statistician

• Performed database management, data interpretation and conducted various statistical and predictive analyses – including using machine learning, causal, time-variant, survival, clustered and multilevel analyses– on NIH funded international studies on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. • Prepared manuscripts, and designed and generated tables and figures reporting analysis results.

University of California, Berkeley | Jan 2016 - May 2017

Leadership Fellow

• Selected to participate in a three-semester leadership development program. • Learning activities include: consulting project with non-profit agency, training workshops, needs assessment, project management and meeting facilitation.

University of California, Berkeley | Aug 2016 - Mar 2017

Graduate Student Researcher

• Conducted analysis on the accuracy of population estimates of those with a genetic disorder or genetic determinants (e.g. cancer, congenital malformation, etc.) with those of elusive populations (e.g. drug addiction) using both non- Bayesian and Bayesian methods. • Included recreating and expanding on over twenty capture-recapture analyses in R.

Google via Adecco | Aug 2016 - Dec 2016

Health Search Public Health Data Specialist

• Responsible for data curation, data analysis of existing public health and medical research. • Curated, verified, and provided expert feedback to improve the information in the health knowledge graph and related algorithm performance. • Collaborated with product managers, engineers, medical doctors and other public health practitioners.

San Francisco Department of Public Health | May 2016 - Dec 2016

Research Analyst

• Conducted various statistical analyses, mathematical modeling, data management, and data interpretation on studies involving randomized control trials of pharmacologic interventions to treat substance use, HIV risk, and a prospective longitudinal study among transgender youth. • Prepared manuscripts and presentations to disseminate research findings and supported the conduct of research activities for ongoing studies, including: administering informed consent, confirming study eligibility and conducting behavioral interview assessments. • Supported the conduct of literature reviews on the following: psychometric properties of substance use measures for a National Institute on Drug Abuse- funded project for the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) Substance Use Scientific Committee; acceptability of pharmacotherapy for substance use; and the use of ecological momentary assessments for substance use. • Provided statistical support and training on statistical software to undergraduate student interns.

Amity Foundation | Mar 2015 - Aug 2015

Program Coordinator

• Managed reporting, program evaluation and program implementation for a $250,000 grant that provided mentors to formerly incarcerated individuals in Los Angeles County. • Supervised a Data Entry Specialist. • Implemented program plan, maintained program management efforts for a financial literacy grant entitled, Financial Empowerment. • Developed, implemented and managed a program for a $100,000 financial literacy grant.

Native American Health Center | Feb 2014 - Feb 2015

Data Coordinator

• Managed data collection, entry and analysis for health clinic that saw over 15 thousand patients at three sites in the San Francisco Bay Area. Supervised two Data Assistants. • Maintained database quality by generating electronic health record queries and reports in SQL and statistical and mixed-model analyses for clinical and behavioral health reports in SPSS for the public, executive leadership and funding organizations.

Native American Health Center | Jun 2012 - Jan 2014

Data Assistant

• Responsible for GPRA and other survey data collection, health behavior data entry, and technical and statistical reporting of over 15 grants. • Other roles included: consenting survey participants, determining insurance eligibility, entering clients into different health care tracking systems, and performing HIV rapid tests and HIV counseling.

Native American Health Center | Oct 2012 - Dec 2012

Pre-medical Intern

• Observed attending physician, Dr. Christopher Alexander, in the medical department of the Native American Health Center in San Francisco, CA. The eight-week medical internship including: observing doctor/patient interactions, weekly presentations, graded tests and final exam. • Under the doctors supervision, was also responsible for giving patients information on different medical conditions.

BAY AREA YOUTH EMT PROGRAM | Jul 2012 - Dec 2012

Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Skills Instructor

• Taught various required skills to students in an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) course. Skills included how to use different respiratory devices, how to control bleeding and assess a cervical spine injury. • Provided review sessions to help students pass the national registry exam.

UC Davis | Sep 2008 - Jun 2011

Undergraduate Researcher

• Collected, maintained, and evaluated data for a Muscle Physiology and Proteomics lab. • Conducted molecular techniques such as Western blot, and mass spectrometry as well as maintained a ACCESS database for various ongoing projects within the lab. • Presented a poster on mutations of cardiac Troponin T and cardiac Troponin C and their relation to familial cardiomyopathies at the 2011 Undergraduate Research Scholarship, and Creative Activities Conference, Davis, CA.

My Education

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Master’s Degree, Epidemiology and BiostatisticsUniversity of California, Berkeley | 2017
Bachelor's Degree, Neural Physiology and Behavior (NPB), PsychologyUniversity of California, Davis | 2011

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