Conor Tompkins

About Conor Tompkins

View my data science and visualization blog: https://ctompkins.netlify.app

Experience

1. Data Scientist

   Shaw Industries

   Mar 2022 — Present · Dalton, GA, US

   Built time-series demand forecasts using economic indicators as exogenous variables, setting statistical baselines for supply chain and sales planning.Developed R Shiny app to deliver machine learning predictions for new product sales, informing launch planning and product portfolio analysis.Refactored manual data science and data engineering workflows into version-controlled automated pipelines, reducing time-to-delivery by 50%.Developed production image-to-text AI pipeline with Azure OpenAI and Python to generate SEO tags for thousands of images.Developed data engineering pipelines in Databricks.Delivered data-driven insights and ad-hoc analyses to executive leadership.Led data science training sessions, mentored junior team members, and advised University of Tennessee students.

Education

• Duquesne University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science, International Relations

  2007 — 2011

• University of Galway

  B.A, Political Science and International Relations

  2010 — 2010

• University of Pittsburgh

  Master of Arts (M.A.), Security and Intelligence Studies

  2011 — 2013

Skills

• Foreign Policy
• Ms Excel Pivot Tables
• Policy
• Consumer Insight
• Public Policy
• Data Visualization
• Informatica Data Quality Analyst
• Tableau
• International Security
• Politics
• Research
• Editing
• Policy Analysis
• Mysql
• Political Science
• International Relations
• Microsoft Excel
• Data Analysis