Tamara Horne

Experience

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  California Baptist University

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2008

  Adjunct Professor

  Teaching voice to both music majors and non-majors.

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  First Baptist Church of Corona

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2011

  Minister of Music

  Leading an adult choir and praise team; conducting and singing for services, baptisms, and special events.

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  Bethlehem United Methodist Church Preschool

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2019

  Music Teacher
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  Williamson County Schools

  Aug 2019 - now

  • SIS Specialist (Data Analyst)

    Aug 2023 - now

  • Substitute Teacher

    Aug 2022 - Aug 2023

  • Teacher Assistant

    Aug 2019 - Aug 2022
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  Springboard

  Sept 2022 - Jul 2023

  Data Science Fellow

  Springboard Data Science Career Track - StudentDescription: 550+ hours of hands-on course material, with 1:1 industry expert mentoroversight, and completion of 2 in-depth capstone projects. Mastered skills in Python,SQL, data analysis, data visualization, hypothesis testing, and machine learning.Predicting Public Transportation Safety Risk: Predicting the safety risk implications of adding a new mode of transportation versus increasing service to current modes of transportation in Nashville, TN. Project explores three different aggregations and four regression models: linear regression, random forest, knn, and XGBoost. Results suggest Nashville should not add light rail. Instead, Nashville should consider adding service to an existing mode, the best choice of which would be commuter rail.Github: https://github.com/tamarahorne/Springboard/tree/main/Capstone%20Project%202Cancer Gene Expression Classification: Imbalanced multi-class classification problem seeking to predict type of cancer based on gene expression data. Utilizing PCA for feature reduction, both linear and non-linear models with parameter tuning, GridSearch, and cross-validation with StratifiedKFold where appropriate. Project is in progress. Show less