ABOUT ME
Born and raised in Southern Illinois, I grew up with a thirst for knowledge and a desire to explore. After graduating as the Valedictorian of Carbondale Community High School in 2015, I attended Southern Illinois University on a full-ride scholarship for Civil Engineering. After taking some time to learn more about myself, I transferred to Grinnell College. I discovered my love for the social sciences and their connection to the statistical world. In 2019, I graduated with honors and a Bachelor's in Sociology with a minor in Statistics. After graduating, I took on the role of Fellow at the Data Analysis and Social Inquiry of Grinnell College. I currently work as a Data Scientist at Inteleos and as a freelance consultant.
TESTIMONIALS
"I had the pleasure of working with Denali while we both worked on the Data Science team at Solstice Studios. Denali is the type of person you hope to get as a teammate: a self-starter, intrepid, quick to learn new skills, open to feedback, stellar communications skills, and a solid background in both statistics and programming. While at Solstice, Denali worked on quite a few predictive analytic projects in RStudio that required knowledge of common machine learning methods (e.g., random forest models), R Shiny application development, and communicating model performance results to non-technical audiences. He also helped develop and implement a "fuzzy-matching" process in DBT/Snowflake that reconciled movie titles so data could be matched across multiple data sources. Quite simply, he's a great catch for any data science team, and both his technical and interpersonal skills are at a level well beyond his years."
"You may be familiar with the highly desirable "get it done" attitude, but what about an "it's already done" attitude? That's Denali in a nutshell. Proactive and lightning quick, he seems to have analytic tasks complete before I request them. On top of that, highly receptive to feedback, gracious, a tremendous collaborator, and a loyal employee. Denali is a rising star in the data science world."