Robert Nelson Bursey III
540.664.7021 | robertnbursey@gmail.com | Ormond Beach, Florida | linkedin.com/in/robertnbursey
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November 2013 - July 2015
DIRECTOR
Senior Data Analyst / Business Intelligence Developer
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Data Extraction, Integration, Manipulation & Visualization
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Predictive Modeling & Reporting
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Data Quality Management
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Performance, Trend, Risk & Competitive Analysis
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Process Design & Optimization
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Project Lifecycle Management
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Team, Management & Client Relationship Management
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Proven success in providing effective analytical expertise to sales, marketing, product development, and management teams that have increased visibility of opportunities and issues, minimized risks, enhanced decision-making, and supported growth.
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Strength in capturing data from internal / external data sources, developing models, producing meaningful conclusions from reliable data, and providing actionable insights that have enabled organizations to strengthen effectiveness of strategies and campaigns, expand into new markets, maintain competitive advantage, and improve financial performance.
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Outstanding process improvement, communication, presentation, and problem solving skills. Recognized for collaborating effectively with management, teams, and business to analyze needs, define approach, develop solutions, and achieve goals.
August 2015 - February 2017
PROJECT MANAGER
Experience & Achievements

Straighterline
Senior Business Analyst
November 2015 - present
Recruited by COO into newly established eLearning company to develop high-impact solutions strengthen company’s ability to market and grow business across B2C channels. Report directly the COO, VP of Sales, and CFO.
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Build, deliver, and maintain monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports leveraging advanced SQL queries and AWS QuickSight visualization tool.
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Create prediction models to forecast business outcomes. Create fiscal year projections for client retention and renewal.
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Perform ad-hoc analysis to communicate in-month and end-of-month business results to the CFO and executive team.
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Partner with marketing and product development leadership to discuss impact of initiatives to forecasts and results.
Selected Achievements:
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Improved the accuracy and reliability of business data within 6 months of hire, increasing the adoption of reports across the organization. Analyzed, validated, and resolved quality issues across multiple Terabytes of shopping cart, log, and student data within the MySQL database. Provided technical and data definitions for business terms.
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Built the framework for automatically capturing, manipulating, and reporting on critical data across the organization, eliminating the need for the data analysis team.
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Developed portfolio of 60 recurring reports and hundreds of ad-hoc reports that has enabled company to achieve 10% to 40% business growth year-over-year and double revenue within 3 years.
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Created the Individual Course Report that contributed to increase customer satisfaction by 50% and Net Promoter Score (NPS) from 20 to 30 by providing product and sales teams with a centralized means to track difficulty of courses. Report as evolved as a key source of information for student and client performance at the course level.
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Produced the Completer Rate Report that increased visibility into the inaccurate reporting metric being leveraged across the company to evaluate performance of courses.
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Designed portfolio of reports for the Head of Sales that improved awareness of opportunities, leading to growing number of active monthly subscribers from 3,000 to 12,000 and doubling list of schools.
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Learned company’s Responsys Email Marketing System, and wrote tools to capture and import data from corporate database to the marketing program that enabled continued business growth.
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Identified the need and creating the Rebill Rate Prediction Tool to enable leadership to define goals and expectations for revenue / retention.

Bidtellect
Senior Director of Business Analytics
October 2013 - November 2015
Chosen as the first Analyst to build the analytical environment and team for this start-up company providing marketers with a centralized platform to execute native campaigns across all formats and devices, including text, imagery, and video.
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Built the framework, processes, and procedures for capturing and uploading data onto Bidtellect leading paid content distribution platform, and for executing and improving the success of marketing campaigns.
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Recruited and led team of 12 Analysts in executing 1,000 digital advertising campaigns targeting native and social media sites for Fortune 500 companies.
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Identified and presented opportunities to maximize campaigns to sales team that drove incremental revenue.
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Created the analytics dashboards to illuminate findings in monthly external marketing report.
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Established a strong operating model that resulted in achieving individual goals and a 26% raise within one year.
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Recruited and managed an effective team focused on customer service and maximizing success of campaigns.
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Developed Training Manual, best practices, and processes for the Analytics team that increased productivity and effectiveness of team. Managed 40-100 simultaneous campaigns generating $1.3M in quarterly revenue.
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Provided dedicated support to Microsoft, company’s top client that generated $35M in annual revenue.
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Leveraged predictive analysis methods to develop the media plans and create Request for Proposal (RFPs) responses for $3M+ in opportunities. Utilized Metamarkets visualization tool to evaluate and improve performance of campaigns.
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Contributed in designing and building the GUI for the Bidtellect platform to upload and process images and texts.
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Developed the Bidtellect Reporting structure to provide clients with standardized reporting metrics. Captured data from multiple sources to deliver campaign Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
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Created Pipeline Report from Salesforce CRM system to validate upcoming ad campaign sales forecasts.

Millennial Media
Director of Analytics
2009 - 2013
Originally recruited as Business Analyst and the 46th employee to execute and optimize mobile campaigns for Fortune 500 clients. Promoted within 2 years to manage team of 3-6 Analysts supporting Northeast Sales Team and hundreds of customers in New York and Boston.
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Led the operational analysis team in supporting the capture of $10M+ in annual revenue, and as the company grew rapidly from start-up to a public entity within 4 years.
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Assumed responsibility for creating, updating, and managing the Billing Report that evolved the key blueprint for the Finance team to invoice clients monthly.
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Produced portfolio of Business Objects reports to provide high-level analytics on business results.
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Created the weekly Pipeline Report from Salesforce CRM system to predict and increase awareness of upcoming advertising campaigns.
EARLY CAREER: Associate Delivery Manager, AD.com (purch. by AOL) and Campaign Coordinator for AOL
Education & Credentials
Bachelor of Science in Media Relations; Minor in Economics
RADFORD UNIVERSITY – Radford, VA (2004)
Technical Training
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Learn to Code – HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Swift ½ MiMo
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SQL Fundamentals ½ SoloLearn
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Python, R, GitHub, nodeJS Training
Technology Proficiency & Knowledge
Software & Tools:
Tableau, AWS, QuickSight, Responsys, Metamarkets, Salesforce, Zoho, NetSuite, MS Office, Excel, Snowflake
Languages:
HTML, SQL, T-SQL, JavaScript, Python, PostgreSQL
Databases:
MySQL