Sarah Price

Experience

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  Salt Lake Research, PLLC (CRO; defunct)

  Aug 2009 - Oct 2011

  Patients Recruitment | Data Entry

  • Maintained database by collecting & entering medical history to improve recruitment efforts, enabling me to specifically target patient populations to recruit & enroll in clinical trials.• Created inclusion/exclusion forms to screen patients for Phase III oncology, gynecology, urology, gastroenterology, and internal medicine studies.

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  University of Utah - Employment

  Jul 2010 - Nov 2015

  Research Assistant | Data Analyst

  • Forged collaboration, secured funding ($35,000), executed qualitative and quantitative techniques to evaluate biological correlates of behavior• Formalized and facilitated investigation of peer-reviewed scientific studies• Presented insights in co-1st-authored peer-reviewed article, 1 poster & 3 15-min seminars

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  BioFire Diagnostics, LLC

  Nov 2015 - Aug 2016

  Research Associate 1 | R&D

  • Adjusted programmatic variables to optimize mechanical and biological metrics - results informed product owners of potential errors.• Analyzed & presented high-throughput genetics results to stakeholders (collected, consolidated, visualized using Excel Pivot Tables, MiniTab).• Evaluated technical limitations of pathogen detection for DoD bio-surveillance following ITAR compliance.

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  The University of Texas at Austin

  Aug 2016 - May 2022

  • Explored, parsed, and statistically analyzed multi-dimensional data using programming & ML (linear regression, clustering, dimensional reduction, network analysis, sequence alignment).• Built data pipeline to extract data (using open-source APIs) and produced custom analytical methods.• Executed custom analytical pipeline using batch-level job submissions, high performance computing (HPC) with multi-node & multi-threaded processing by scheduling workloads (SLURM) and managing environment configs (using run commands, i.e. bashrc). • Presented insights via 1 peer-reviewed publication, 2 national conferences, 5 60-min seminars, 2 abstracts, 3 symposia.Completed PhD-level coursework & qualifying exam in biology & bioinformatics. Show less

  • Applied Data Scientist | Graduate Student Researcher

    Aug 2016 - May 2022

  • Teaching Assistant | Graduate Student

    Aug 2016 - Dec 2021
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  Uplevyl

  Jun 2022 - Jul 2023

  Product Data Analyst

  SUMMARY: Product Data Analyst at mission-driven start-up, investigated & facilitated data usage for a global app platform.• Increased product metrics +800% by scoping analytic events schemas and providing modeling support for AI/LLM database.• Identified & closed critical gaps in ML (#RecSys) product by partnering with engineers to collect output of ML data.• Provided key ad-hoc & statical analytics for all stakeholders (CEO, product developers, operations, marketing, external clients) by producing daily app-usage report, weekly client-facing reports and twice-quarterly campaign performance reports. Show less

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  STEM Muse

  Aug 2023 - Nov 2023

  Data Analyst

  SUMMARY: Conducted Research Analytics & Analytical Engineering projects for 1000-member STEM mentorship program.• Parsed qualitative & quantitative data (SQL, R), extracting meaningful insights on program's successes & roadblocks.• Led proof-of-concept projects of maintaining uniform data reporting (ObservableHQ/D3.js) for multi-year programs.• Implemented best practices of data consistency by providing user-form data-entry rules (Airtable).

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  Byte Elevate

  Mar 2024 - May 2024

  Data Engineer

  SUMMARY: Applied SQL & Python (Khan Academy, Coursera, Udemy) scripting on local deployment using Docker Desktop, DBViz, Pycharm & Git.• Wrote documentation & user guides summarizing basics of scripting & database generation (SQL, Python).• Provided stepwise overview, showcasing data tool interoperability (DBViz, Pycharm) & version control (Docker, Git).

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  L.K. Jordan & Associates

  Jul 2024 - now

  Technical Analyst Assistant