Candidates About

Janet  Clinard

SUMMARY

I am innovative, results-oriented and a values-driven professional with over 30 years of broad experience to include administration, development, information management, data profiling and analysis.  I have the ability to effectively design, analyze and improve the overall quality and effectiveness of data products.  In addition, I have served in a lead capacity effectively contributing to a positive and productive work environment through effective project management, problem solving and communication skills.  I thrive in a team environment and take the initiative and responsibility for ensuring that customer requirements are met.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Finch Computing, Division of Qbase (Beavercreek, OH) 2014-Present

A portfolio of solutions delivering accurate, actionable insights on a massive scale.

Content Developer (2014-Present)

·         Gain disambiguation and extraction improvements by identifying, revising data related issues through internal findings within knowledge base data.

·         Research data sources for best fit into our knowledge base.

·         Contributed to evaluations for multiple iterations of usability testing for testing tools development.

·         Participate in daily sprint meetings

Qbase (Springfield, OH) 2008 – 2014

Delivers leading solutions in data enhancement, management, analytics, and information technology services.

Data Analyst (2010-2014)

·         Developed, document and implemented hundreds of business rule validations for the A7 NexGen IT project to identify data anomalies on many data types (SQL, Oracle, Access, COBOL) for our customers including the USAF, Booz Allen Hamilton and JJR Solutions.

·         Perform quality assurance processes on each set of business rule validations.

·         On-site client visits to state Department of Health offices to perform exploratory data analysis, data validations and reporting, tool customization and data tools training.

Team Lead Process/Status ETL Conversion (2008)

·         Lead the ETL team with creating an automated and standardized workflow process.

·         Lead with the design and creation of standard workflow conversion rules.

·         Lead with customer communications for custom design and development of fundraising databases.

·         Provide support with conversion issues and resolution in a timely manner.

LEXISNEXIS, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. (Dayton, OH) 1985 – 06/2008

A leading global provider of business information solutions to professionals in law firms, corporations, government, law enforcement, tax, accounting, academic institutions and risk and compliance assessment.

Batch Processing Consultant (2004- 2008)

·         Monitor batch production jobs for processing issues and resolution in a timely manner.

·         Provide production help desk support during business and after hours in a timely manner.

·         Perform scheduled daily/monthly processing for custom processes and detailed billing reports.

·         Proactive at improving customer processes with automation and improving coding issues.

·         Developed quality control procedures for the customized batch processing operations team.

·         Document with weekly and monthly metrics summarizing all issues and quality levels.

·         Designed automated tools to perform checks and generate statistics/graphs on consistent production processes.

·         Interacted extensively and communicated easily with batch consultants, analysts and sales for problem resolution and compliance to quality assurance principles.

Sr. Data Analyst (1997 - 2004)

·         Recommended the strategy and direction for analysis by the development and integration of the proprietary analysis toolset as it relates to the needs of the windows server based fabrication and search system.

·         Led in quality assurance and feedback to the engineers for the proprietary analysis tool efforts.

·         Utilized the Perl programming language to sample, calculate, extract and manipulate data for analysis.

·         Automated the analysis reporting method to Excel utilizing Perl programming.

·         Researched and created the nickname and gender tables destined for the windows server based fabrication and search system.

·         Developed new parsing rules and added tokens that enhance the quality of address searching.

·         Instituted all conditioning efforts as it relates to address parsing to the engineering team.

·         Performed all quality assurance and testing utilizing address standardization methods.

·         Developed, organized and created the enhanced file keywords and equivalency keywords across all of public records data. (Approximately 4500 databases).

·         Designed and built customized conversion instructions destined for the windows server based fabrication system.

·         Designed and built customized file designs, database definitions and display specifications for public records databases.

·         Pioneered the product design of sub-segments and data items as a way to generate a more granular search within the database products.

·         Provided guidance to the technical team with regards to database definition and how it interacts with company variable input string format (VISF) input standards coupled with XML formatters, XSL style sheets, sub-segments, and data items.

Systems Engineer (1994 – 1997)

·         Developed customized database definitions/specifications for internal customers.

·         Served as a liaison between system engineers and the tools maintenance group for enhancements to the online system.

·         Served as a database definition/specification representative on many of the large projects within the company.

·         Served as an after hours Systems Engineer for problem solving and releases to the production database system.

Design Analyst (1992 -1994)

·         Designed and built customized file designs for law school, legal, internal invoicing and private database products.

·         Direct interaction with clients for custom design and development.

·         Maintained a high degree of confidentiality, discretion and professionalism resulting in company and client trust.

Data Control Specialist (1985– 1992)

·         Created customized instructions on procedures utilized for creating news related database products.

·         Researched specific core terms that would be used to link topics across databases together.

·         Met rapid deadlines to create specialized database products.

·         Performed routine editing functions across multiple large databases in order to condition and update databases.

·         Troubleshot issues with any of the processes involved in conversion, formatting or transferring to the production system.

·         Scheduled, ran and monitored specific database update schedules based on product availability.

EDUCATION

Paralegal Certificate - American Institute for Paralegal Studies (Dayton, OH) June 1992

General and Business Applications - Sinclair Community College (Dayton, OH) June 1982

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, SQL