Brian

About

I combine data analysis, engineering, and machine learning research to turn complex data into clear insights.

A person with a striped shirt and a cap is standing in front of a computer screen displaying data and analytics. Another laptop is open on a desk below the monitor, and a large metallic tank with a pressure gauge is nearby.

Core Skills

Data Analysis

Turning raw data into clear insights.

Data Engineering

Data Engineering

Experience

Data Analyst II, City of LA Sep 2024 – Dec 2025

Data Engineering(Data Pipelines)/Microsoft CRM System/Google Cloud Service/Visualization/Statistics

  • Incorporate statistical analysis to support cross-departmental collaboration and provide data forecasting, support, and recommendations to inform decision-making, improving project support efficiency by 15%.
  • Design comprehensive Power BI visualizations and dashboards that replace portions of third-party licensed services, reducing dependency and overall licensing costs.
  • Build and maintain automated, containerized ETL pipelines on GCP, leveraging cluster orchestration to process large-scale datasets and deliver end-to-end automated reporting, resulting in a 30% reduction in manual work.
  • Support data security initiatives by implementing access controls, monitoring data workflows, and ensuring compliance with security standards.

Lab Coordinator (AI Research), AI4Business Lab, SDSU Mar 2023 – Sep 2025

Artificial Intelligence(Computer Vision, LLM, Machine Learning)/Python(PyTorch)

  • Developed a computer vision model, training with over 60,000 images; optimized to enhance overall performance by 10%.
  • Integrate Fine-tuned a large language model (LLM) to assist in code search tasks.
  • Led 3-5 member teams to complete cross-departmental, international projects under tight deadlines.

Assistant (Temp.), Jeff Byrd Financial/ Pasadena, CA Feb 2022 – Jun 2022

  • Enhanced and standardized the client database, reducing customer management time by 30%.
  • Migrated client data from an offline database to ACT online customer management system, optimizing data accessibility.

Research Assistant, Tamkang University Department of Management Sciences, Taiwan
Mar 2020 – Jan 2021

Recommendation system/Statistics/Python(Machine Learning, Web Scraping)/JavaScript/NLP

Education

Master of Science in Big Data Analytics,
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
Jul 2022 – May 2024
GPA: 3.88/4

Coursework: Machine Learning Engineer/Time Series Forecast/AWS/SQL/R/Tableau/Power BI/SPSS

CS50’s Web Programming Course Certification, Havardx
May 2023

Web Development(Django, JavaScript, HTML, CSS), SQL, API
• Utilize Django to build a real-time chat website with a file-sharing feature.