Rachel Sisson

Experience

1. Senior Data Scientist Portfolio Lead

   MANTECH

   Oct 2019 — Present · Sterling, VA, US

   Supports Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), at the National Targeting Center.• Oversees the activities of 2 teams consisting of Data Scientists and Intel Analysts, delegates tasks to team members; manages projects and requests from requirements gathering to product delivery.• Obtains, joins, scrubs, explores, and interprets large datasets.• Transforms and manipulates large dataset to suit the desired analysis.• Uses tools such as Oracle SQL Developer for querying large amounts of data, and R/RStudio for conducting advanced analytics.• Supports targeting, lead generation, non-proliferation, counter-narcotics, report automation, and other efforts as the needs of the agency evolve.• Prepares finished analytical products, assessments, briefings, and other written or oral products on current threats and trends based on the sophisticated collection, research, and analytic tradecraft of all sources of classified and unclassified information, including intelligence collection INTs, open source, law enforcement, and other government data.• Identifies gaps in available intelligence information and engages with other collection managers on strategies to meet intelligence requirements through Intelligence Community collection disciplines.• Employs Intelligence Community analytic standards and appropriate tradecraft, methodologies and techniques and applies specialized subject matter expertise to prepare assessments of current threats and trends for consumers from senior US officials to state and local and private sector customers.

Education

• Purdue Global

  Master of Science - MS, Information Technology

  2021 — 2023

• James Madison University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Psychology; Research Methods; Statistics

  2011 — 2015