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Analyst who turns SQL and Tableau into decisions. Cut weekly ops reporting 6h → 40m and found $48k/year in duplicate refunds.
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Sam Okonkwo
Data Analyst
Atlanta, GA · sam.okonkwo@email.com
Summary
Analyst who turns SQL and Tableau into decisions. Cut weekly ops reporting 6h → 40m and found $48k/year in duplicate refunds.
Skills
Experience
Data Analyst · Harbor Retail · 2021 — Present
- Modeled 2.4M order rows in SQL; weekly reporting 6 hours → 40 minutes.
- Built Tableau dashboards used by 11 directors every Monday.
- Pandas job flagged 1,200 duplicate IDs; refund leakage −$48k/year.
Junior Analyst · Piedmont Bank · 2019 — 2021
- A/B test (n=18k) lifted email CTR 9% with no unsubscribe increase.
Education
B.S. Statistics — Georgia State University, 2019
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ATS keywords for data analysts
- SQL
- Python
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Excel
- A/B testing
- Looker
- pandas
- ETL
- dashboards
- stakeholder reporting
- GA4
Bullet formulas (bad → good)
Skip: Analyzed data.
Write: Built a SQL model on 2.4M order rows that cut weekly reporting from 6 hours to 40 minutes.
Skip: Made dashboards.
Write: Shipped a Tableau exec dashboard used in Monday standup by 11 directors.
Skip: Used Python.
Write: Wrote pandas jobs that flagged 1,200 duplicate customer IDs; refund leakage down $48k/year.
Skip: A/B testing.
Write: Designed an A/B test (n=18k) that lifted email CTR 9% without hurting unsubscribe rate.
Skip: Excel expert.
Write: Replaced a 14-tab Excel forecast with a Looker explore; forecast error 12% → 7%.
Skip: Presented insights.
Write: Presented monthly to finance; changed safety-stock policy that freed $210k inventory.
What to skip for this role
- Skill bars
- Photo
- Tools you cannot demo
- GPA after 3 years
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FAQs
- Core skills for a data analyst resume?
- SQL, a BI tool, Excel, and one of Python or R. Add domain (finance, marketing) if you have it.
- GPA?
- Yes if 3.5+ and you graduated in the last 3 years.
- GitHub?
- Link 1–2 notebooks with a clear README. Do not link private work data.
- Photo?
- No for US analyst roles.
- Projects vs jobs?
- Jobs first. Kaggle only if the posting asks for a portfolio.
- One or two pages?
- One page until you have 8+ years of analyst work with named tools.
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