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Hi, I'm Natsumi Komoda

Senior Analytics Engineer
MS, Marketing Analytics & Communications

I am passionate about data, analytics
and consumer behavior.

Areas of Expertise

My specialties have a lot to do with data. I enjoy cleaning and transforming data to analyze and visualize. I’m always looking to learn new things and enhance my skills.

Data Modeling

Experience in data ETL, data cleaning, data validation and process automation, mostly with dbt, Alteryx and Python.

Data Visualization

Experience in designing dashboards and presentation decks using data visualization tools like Lookwer, Datorama and Power BI. Various experience from Excel charts to challenging CSS customizations.

Advanced Analytics

Various experience in predictive analysis modeling like regression analysis on customer data and online media data to provide data driven insights. Most often using SPSS or R.

Strategy building

Experience in providing consulting services and building marketing and media strategies based on data analysis and research.

Professional Experience

Senior Analytics Engineer

Sep. 2021 - Current

Tala

  • Data ETL, data modeling, feature engineering, data analysis
  • Experience in Snowflake, dbt, SQL, Python, LookML

Data & Analytics

Manager: Jun. 2021 - Sep. 2021

Sr Analyst: Mar. 2020 - Jun. 2021

Spark Foundry

  • Data wrangling, cleaning, ETL, automation, analysis and visualization for various industries
  • Experience in Python, R, Alteryx, Datorama
  • Advanced analytics; analyze campaign effectiveness with regression analysis

Paid Search Analytics

Sr Analyst: Nov. 2017 - Mar. 2020

Analyst: Aug. 2016 - Oct. 2017

Spark Foundry

  • Data analysis and visualization, insights generation, AB tests, budget projection, strategy building of paid search campaign
  • Experience in advanced Excel
  • Award: an agency award “870° Innovation” in 2018
  • Award: Leadership Award given by a client in Q1 2017

Education

MS in Marketing Analytics and Communications

May 2016

Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago, IL

Courses: Database Management, Predictive Analysis, Marketing Research and Engineering, Spreadsheet Modeling, Business Analytics

Projects: Ran predictive analyses with regression models to provide data-driven strategic insights for healthcare clients

Launched and led a Japanese student organization, and organized several events.

BA in Cognitive Linguistics

Mar. 2014

Shinshu University - Nagano, Japan

Graduate thesis: “A Study on the Language of Advertising”

Exchange Program

Aug. 2011 - May 2012

Oklahoma State University - Stillwater, OK

Courses: Economics, Marketing, Finance and Linguistics

Other Achievements

  • Applied Plotting, Charting & Data Representation in Python
  • by University of Michigan on Coursera / Jan. 10, 2018
  • Introduction to Data Science in Python
  • by University of Michigan on Coursera / Dec. 17, 2017
  • Introduction to HTML5, Introduction to CSS3
  • by University of Michigan on Coursera / Oct. 28, 2019
    Learned HTML and CSS through online courses, and built the personal portfolio website from scratch
  • Innovation Master Certificate
  • Global Innovation Management Institute (GIMI) / Aug. 2016
  • 2nd Place in Spring 2016 Innovation Olympics
  • IXL Center / Jun. 2016
    Earned the 2nd place as a team in a worldwide innovation challenge competition. Conducted market research and proposed business models for a major metal company in the U.S.
  • Founder and President of Student Organizations
  • Chicago, IL / Apr. 2015
    Launched a Japanese Cultural student organization at Illinois Institute of Technology to host cultural events to promote cultural understanding and appreciation within the community

    Matsumoto, Japan / Apr. 2013 – Mar. 2014
    Launched a student organization and worked with local business executives and the Chamber of Commerce to host regional startup pitch competitions and create a community to connect students with local businesses.

Projects

Here are some of the interesting projects I’ve worked on in the past. Most of them involve data analytics, marketing research, and consultancy.

Performed predictive analysis and built a data driven marketing strategy to increase revenue and a customer retention rate for a nationwide organization.

This client was a membership based organization for healthcare professionals, and was looking to improve their strategy to increase customer retention rate and revenue. We ran several analyses on their customer data to identify groups of customers that are more likely to return frequently and generate revenue, and if events and incentives are working and not working. Specifically, Market Basket analysis and RFM (Recency, Frequency, Monetary) analysis generated interesting insights. These 2 analyses helped segment customers based on their purchasing behavior, and we identified a customer segment that had the highest potential to drive an increase in ROI. Based on the findings, we’ve provided strategic recommendations on targeting and retaining this group of customers.

Analyzed Illinois patient records data to gain insights to improve healthcare operational efficiency, in collaboration with Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

After studying data analytics for marketing at the graduate school, I had a strong desire to apply the skills to help other people. I reached out to a data scientist at the Lurie Children’s Hospital, and worked together to analyze patient admission records to look into opportunities to improve healthcare operational efficiency.
Our goal was to help identify patients who are likely to result in high use of care (e.g. readmissions), so that healthcare professionals can provide individual and customized care to those patients in advance to treat them efficiently. By running regression analysis on existing patient record data, we were able to identify factors that are likely to lead to the high use of care.

Conducted marketing research and analysis for a tech start-up company in Chicago to enhance its marketing strategy to reach its target audience.

This client provides integrated technology solutions to healthcare providers to help utilize big data they produce every day in order to improve their operational efficiency. We conducted an online survey and interviews with healthcare professionals to understand customer needs and challenges, and built actionable strategic recommendations to target optimal customer segments. Based on in-depth analysis of the company, industry, and customers, our recommendations included strategies to penetrate the current market and develop potential markets to achieve continuous business growth.

Currently analyzing thousands of wine tasting notes and data to predict prices of wine based on tasting notes (work-in-progress personal project)

Every year, thousands of new wines are produced, reviewed by professionals in the industry and given scores and tasting notes. Price of wine ranges from as low as $5 to as high as $5,000 (or even higher). Grape growing and wine making processes are complicated, and quality and brand reputation affect the price of wine significantly. But do $30 wine and $60 wine taste so different? How about $80 wine and $150 wine?
Using over 250,000 rows of wine review data, I am working to understand if different kinds of words are used to describe more expensive wine, and if I can predict the price of wine based on wine critics’ tasting notes.