Raúl Maldonado

Summary

Senior data analyst with 9+ years leading analytics for finance and consumer-goods organizations. Owns KPI definitions, dashboard architecture, and reporting standards for cross-functional teams, and regularly presents findings directly to VP- and C-level stakeholders. Known for translating ambiguous business questions into rigorous, self-service analytics that scale beyond a single analyst.

Skills

• Languages & Tools: Advanced SQL (window functions, query optimization), Tableau (server administration, Level of Detail expressions), Excel, Python (pandas) for automation
• Leadership & Strategy: KPI design and governance, analytics roadmap planning, mentoring junior analysts, executive presentations
• Core Competencies: self-service dashboard architecture, ad hoc analysis, cross-functional stakeholder management

Experience

Lead Data Analyst — Lumen Analytics (Mar 2022 – Present)

• Lead a team of 4 analysts supporting finance, marketing, and product; set analytics standards and review all published dashboards for accuracy and consistency
• Defined and rolled out a company-wide KPI framework adopted by 8 departments, replacing conflicting ad hoc metrics with a single source of truth
• Redesigned the executive reporting suite in Tableau, cutting the monthly close-to-report cycle from 5 business days to 2
• Present quarterly business performance reviews directly to the VP of Operations and executive staff
• Mentor 3 junior and mid-level analysts, formalizing an onboarding curriculum that cut new-hire ramp time by 35%

Senior Data Analyst — Pinecrest Financial (Jan 2019 – Feb 2022)

• Owned analytics for the retail lending division, building forecasting models that informed a $12M annual budget planning cycle
• Led migration of legacy Excel reporting to a centralized Tableau Server environment, reducing report maintenance workload by 50% across the team
• Partnered with risk and compliance teams to design automated data quality checks, catching an average of 15 anomalies per month before they reached leadership

Data Analyst — Harbor & Vine Foods (Jul 2016 – Dec 2018)

• Built weekly and monthly sales dashboards used by regional managers across 60+ retail locations
• Conducted ad hoc analyses on promotional performance, identifying a pricing change that increased category margin by 6%
• Streamlined a manual inventory reconciliation process, saving the merchandising team roughly 10 hours per week

Education

• B.A. in Economics, Fairview University, 2016

Certifications / Projects

• Tableau Certified Data Analyst, 2020
• Built and open-sourced an internal Tableau style guide adopted as the company standard at Lumen Analytics