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ANDONI SOOKLARIS

PROFILE

I'm an Engineering Project Manager at Apple with a focus in automated decisioning systems and extracting business insights from data. I'm passionate about building simple solutions to complex problems, and building relationships with brilliant people to do it. I worked on launching Apple Pay Later, and currently am working on some more exciting stuff on the way!

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EXPERIENCE

   APPLE

Engineering Project Manager, Wallet  📍 Austin, TX → New York, NY

November 2021 to Present

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  • Credit risk decisioning engine EPM

  • Products: Apple Pay Later, black projects

   APPLE

Quantitative Business Analyst, Wallet  📍 Austin, TX

December 2019 to November 2021

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  • Owned fraud KPI reporting on a black project, as well as Apple Pay, Cash and Card lines of business.

  • Full-stack data analysis, insight synthesis and presentation in collaboration with business leaders and data scientists. Engineered data workflows using Airflow, Spark and HDFS on the back-end, and Python and Tableau on the front-end.

  • Architected service-integration agreements for an unreleased product cross-functionally with external partners across Apple.

  • Maintained partnerships with external financial business partners supporting Apple Pay.

  • Improved onboarding experience for new hires by working directly with leadership towards an scalable, team-based onboarding process.

  • Received the Above and Beyond Award in Apple Operations, March 2021.

   AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Data Analyst  📍 San Francisco, CA

June 2018 to December 2019

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  • Leveraged Python, R, SQL and AWS cloud-based solutions to construct ETL pipelines, perform in-house research, and visualize the results for communication to collaborators.

  • Supported partnerships with leading research institutions into eye-related diseases and statistics-driven treatment effectiveness.

  • Developed and deployed analytical solutions on a 60-million patient EHR data registry, with data from 15,000 ophthalmologists nationwide.

    OLE HEALTH FQHC

Data Analyst  📍 Napa, CA

January 2017 to June 2018

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  • Created an app using R and Shiny used by clinic staff and providers to boost efficiency and availability of information during office visits.

  • Wrote SQL reports to drive efficiency of clinic healthcare providers.

  • Architected a new SQL Server database structure collaboratively.

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EDUCATION

    M.S. Statistical Analytics (graduation May 2024)

Georgia Institute of Technology

2020 to Present

Course focus includes statistical modeling, theoretical and mathematical statistics, business fundamentals for analytics.

    B.A. Statistics & B.A. Linguistics

University of California, Davis

2024 to 2018

Graduated with University Honors Program (UHP). Minor in German. Statistics GPA: 3.57, Linguistics GPA: 3.65, Overall GPA: 3.57.

SKILLS & LANGUAGES

PYTHON

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TABLEAU

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SHELL

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SQL

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R

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DUTCH (FLEMISH)

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GREEK

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GERMAN

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SPANISH

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