Steven Ma
Data Analytics Expert

Steven Ma

Data and marketing analyst for Google & Merck.

About

At Google, Steven Ma works as a data analyst providing data analysis, data visualization and automation processes to improve efficiency and to support business decisions. He has strong knowledge of statistical models, machine learning models and quantitative fields and proficient in Excel, Python, SQL, R and Tableau. His experience also includes conducting marketing and business analytics and financial data analysis for companies across various industries such as ASUS, Merck and Cathay Real Estate.

Employment

6 roles
Jul 2019 - Present 6 years 10 months
Business Analyst
Google
  • Supported operations team by providing data analysis based on stakeholder requests.
  • Created dashboards to assist operational decision making and team-wide understanding.
  • Optimized query performance such as table creation for common or expensive types of queries.
  • Monitored reports ensuring usability is maintained for all users.
  • Utilized data analysis to provide feedback to stakeholders including areas for improvement and root cause analysis.
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019 8 months
Data Analyst
Google
  • Provided data analysis, data visualization, and automation process to improve efficiency and to support business decisions.
  • Assisted in developing analytical data analysis, dashboards, automation procedures by complex SQL queries.
  • Helped product managers of e-commerce platform manage the data pipeline.
  • Collaborated with internal stakeholders to maintain the database.
  • Provided technical support and update technical documentation.
Jan 2018 - May 2018 4 months
Data Analyst
Find Your Influence Inc.

Find Your Influence is a SaaS-based influencer marketing platform for brands and advertisers which leverages proprietary technology for discovering influencers, managing campaigns and tracking metrics.

  • Developed brands sentiment to understand influencers’ sentiment towards different brands and on Twitter.
  • Implemented Python to extract tweets on Twitter.
  • Conducted text processing to clean the data.
  • Applied machine learning model to classify the tweets as positive or negative sentiment.
  • Successfully got a high accuracy rate on sentiment analysis.
Jul 2015 - Oct 2016 1 year 3 months
Supply Chain Project Manager
ASUS
  • Coordinated smartphone supply chain process and conducted analytics for recommendations.
  • Executed data in supply chain model and made timely recommendations and decisions to the management.
  • Monitored supply chains across three countries to fulfill monthly production capacity based on planning.
  • Maintained relationships with domestic and international suppliers and subcontractors to achieve expected FG shipment rate.
  • Directed cross-functional efforts to improve process, solve problems and reduce the miscellaneous cost.
Jun 2014 - Jun 2015 1 year
Marketing Analyst
Merck
  • Assisted product manager with analyzing sales data, marketing activities of cardiovascular products.
  • Applied SQL queries to assess sales data, present quantitative analysis and reports of products.
  • Partnered with product managers to develop metrics/KPIs for the Taiwan market.
  • Conducted adjusted marketing analysis, strategy, and insights with product managers to raise quarterly sales increase.
  • Supported on implementing strategic positioning and planning for promotions, events and sales collateral.
Aug 2011 - Aug 2013 2 years
Finance Analyst
Cathay Real Estate

Cathay Real Estate is a real estate company specializing in property services, hotel management, retail mall management, leasing, property management and investment.

  • Forecasted corporate cash flow and balanced corporate cash account for daily financial operations.
  • Executed comparative financial ad-hoc and cost-benefit analysis by evaluating financial metrics and reported to the leads.
  • Implemented financial planning and analysis, annual and long-range planning, monthly analysis to support business development.
  • Collaborated with IT specialists and outsourced IT vendors to optimize Oracle ERP to construct an efficient financial database.

Education

Aug 2017 - May 2018 9 months
Master of Science, Business Analytics
Arizona State University
Sep 2013 - Jun 2015 1 year 9 months
Master of Business and Administration, Business and Administration
National Chiao Tung University
Sep 2008 - Jun 2010 1 year 9 months
Bachelor of Arts, Public Finance (Public Economics)
National Chengchi University

Portfolio

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