Maya Chen

Junior Data Analyst

Chicago, IL, United States

Professional Summary

Junior data analyst with 2+ years turning messy operational data into clear dashboards and decision-ready insights. Strong in SQL, Python, and Tableau; comfortable partnering with product, ops, and finance stakeholders. Eager to grow into analytics ownership on high-impact business questions.

Employment History

Junior Data Analyst

Horizon Retail Analytics · Chicago, IL

Jun, 2024 · Present

Built and maintained 12+ Tableau dashboards tracking weekly sales, inventory turns, and promo lift for 40+ store managers. Wrote SQL pipelines (BigQuery) that cut manual weekly reporting time from ~8 hours to under 45 minutes. Partnered with merchandising to A/B-test shelf layouts; analysis linked a 6.2% lift in category conversion. Documented metric definitions in a shared wiki so finance and ops used one source of truth.

Data Analyst Intern

Lakeview Digital · Chicago, IL

May, 2023 · Aug, 2023

Cleaned and joined CRM + web event data for a 50k-contact nurture program; reduced duplicate records by ~18%. Automated a Python script that flagged funnel drop-offs daily and emailed a summary to growth leads. Presented internship findings to leadership; recommended two funnel fixes later shipped by the product team.

Analytics Project Lead (part-time)

Campus Analytics Club, University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL

Sep, 2022 · Apr, 2023

Led a 5-student team analyzing enrollment and retention data for a student-org case competition (2nd place). Built a reproducible Jupyter notebook workflow for cleaning survey exports and visualizing cohort trends.

Education

B.S. Statistics

University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL

May, 2024

Relevant coursework: Regression Analysis, Database Systems, Experimental Design, Machine Learning Foundations GPA: 3.7/4.0

Skills

Analytical Thinking Skills

Interpersonal Communication Skills

Courses

Google Data Analytics Certificate

Google / Coursera

Tableau Desktop Specialist (in progress)