Raul Maldonado

Summary

Recent analytics graduate with hands-on experience turning messy retail and operations data into clear, decision-ready dashboards. Comfortable across SQL, Excel, and Tableau, with growing Python skills for repeatable data cleaning. Eager to learn from senior analysts while owning reporting end-to-end.

Skills

• Languages & Tools: SQL, Excel (PivotTables, XLOOKUP, Power Query), Tableau, Python (pandas)
• Core Competencies: dashboard building, ad hoc analysis, data cleaning and validation, requirements gathering, stakeholder communication

Experience

Junior Data Analyst — Cascade Data Co. (Sep 2025 – Present)

• Built and maintain 6 recurring Tableau dashboards tracking weekly sales and inventory metrics for a 40-person operations team
• Automated a manual month-end reporting process in Excel/Python, cutting turnaround time from 6 hours to under 45 minutes
• Cleaned and reconciled data from 3 source systems, reducing reporting discrepancies flagged by stakeholders by 30%
• Partnered with the operations lead to define 5 new KPIs now used in weekly planning meetings

Data Analyst Intern — Meridian Retail Group (Jun 2024 – Aug 2024)

• Assisted the analytics team in building SQL queries to support a quarterly customer segmentation project covering 120,000+ customer records
• Contributed to a Tableau dashboard used by store managers across 18 locations to monitor daily foot traffic and conversion
• Cleaned and validated point-of-sale data, identifying and correcting a recurring data entry error affecting 4% of transactions

Education

• B.S. in Business Analytics, Ridgemont State University, 2025

Certifications / Projects

• Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification, 2025
• Capstone Project: Analyzed a public e-commerce dataset to model customer churn risk, presenting findings and a retention recommendation to a panel of faculty and industry judges