A website dedicated to providing accessible statistics and interactive visualizations.
About: Huge nerd. Obsessed with data, Pokemon, gaming, heavy metal, football, and corgis.
Contact: (925) 550-0398 | alecbhoward@gmail.com | LinkedIn
Location: Houston, TX
Languages: Python, SQL, git, bash, HTML, CSS, Javascript
Data Visualization: Tableau, Highcharts, Mode Analytics, Seaborn, Matplotlib
Big Data Platforms: Snowflake, Fivetran, Hevo, AWS, Redshift
Development Environments: dbt, Django, Selenium
NZXT | Remote | April 2019 - February 2025
Lead Analytics Engineer (April 2022 - February 2025)
Led migration to Tableau, establishing it as the company’s primary business intelligence platform and ensuring seamless reporting across all departments.
Owned all Tableau administration, reporting, designing and maintaining dashboards that provided key insights into finance, product, sales, and planning.
Spearheaded the implementation of DBT at NZXT, transforming data transformation workflows and improving data model efficiency.
Designed and built core DBT models used for downstream analytics, ensuring reliable, scalable, and well-structured data for reporting and business intelligence tools.
Partnered with the data engineering team to optimize data pipelines, improve ETL processes, and enhance overall data infrastructure.
Data Scientist (January 2020 - April 2022):
Supported both B2B and DTC business segments by delivering executive-level insights on key performance indicators (KPIs) and future business trends.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive strategic initiatives, streamline data processes, and enhance overall business intelligence infrastructure.
Business Intelligence Specialist (April 2019 - January 2020):
Piloted movement to automate several key processes to improve efficiency across the entire business
Introduced and administered interactive Highchart visualizations to give business users more insightful data exploration capabilities
Beyond the Summit | Los Angeles, California | July 2018 - July 2020
Data Engineer & Data Analyst
Developed and engineered data pipelines from scratch to automate extracting key analytics from various data sources such as Twitch and Twitter. Once extracted, the data was cleaned, parsed, and exported to be used across various teams. Some use cases include proving company value to clients as well as helping management make better informed business decisions.
Built a business friendly website using Python’s Django to host data and create visualizations.
Genentech | South San Francisco, California | February 2017 - March 2018
Business Systems Analyst
Managed company’s Master Data Management system, analyzing data with SQL and Python and improving data quality with Informatica.
Built pipelines to help improve company efficiency, such as a Python script that automates extracting and importing data to Google Sheets.
Helped create and manage team’s Github page, helping to document and preserve SQL and Python code.
Hearthlytics | San Francisco, California | July 2015 - June 2016
Discovia | San Francisco, California | November 2014 - July 2015
Search Analyst
General Assembly | San Francisco, California | April 2016 - July 2016
University of Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, California | September 2010 - July 2014