About Matt

I'm a technical data analyst, published author, excellent communicator, and problem solver who works in higher education institutional research, psychometrics, and ERP/SIS systems.

I've earned a bachelor of science degree in Psychology, a master's degree in Information Systems Management, and I am the author of Learn RStudio IDE, Quick, Effective, and Productive Data Science published by Apress.

In my current role at Bucks County Community College, I provide data engineering support to faciliate a curriculum data migration from Colleague to Workday Student using SQL and RStudio. I'm also the subject matter expert for reporting and support the Institutional Research department with Workday Reporting, PRISM, and SQL Server Report Manager.

In previous roles, worked on Statistical Programming at Educational Testing Service and College board where I learned how to support psychometric research, large-scale educational assessments, and provided reliable educational performance reporting. Additionally, I provided consulting and training on analytics solutions for data warehouses, data dictionary solutions, and creating data visualizations with Tableau so that we could provided rapid and actionable intelligence.

Finally, I have experience that are not directly related to analytics including working as a mental health counselor where I learned how to communicate effectively individually and in group therapy sessions. When the iPhone was introduced, I used that as an opportunity to learn how to make mobile iPhone applications. This experience prompted me to set up an consulting company where I coded full-stack iPhone apps, provided in-person and remote training to software engineers, and maintained a viable online marketing effort.

Publications

Here are the major publications that I've worked on. Many of these were inspired by my experience with early mobile app development and my most recent book reflects my new experience with data science.

Technology Platforms

Here is the technology that I have used most recently:

• SQL
• R/RStudio/Shiny
• ChatGPT, Grok, and Copilot AI
• Workday Student
• Workday HCM
• Excel
• Tableau
• Workday Reporting/PRISM
• Colleague Student Information System
• Next.js

I have a broad range of experience in other programming languages for both analytics and applications including SAS, Python, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), iOS, Swift, and C# and can pick up new programming languages and analytics packages as needed.

Certifications

• Workday Reporting
• PRISM
• Calculated Fields
• Data Scientist with R
• Compete SAS Bootcamp
• CSS, HTML, and Javascript

Passion Project

Bucks County UFO Sightings

This is an ongoing project where I am looking at around 250 UFO sightings in the Bucks County area. I'm applying data analysis techniques including exploratory data analysis, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling to explore the experiences of people who report UFO sightings in Bucks County.

Here is content related to the UFO project

• UFOs Over Bucks County - Data Exploration Article
• UFO Data Science Project Code on Github

Connect

Connect with me via LinkedIn if would you like to work together.