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Iris Mason
Senior Data Analyst with experience in trusted metrics, analysis, communication, and decision impact. Practical work includes SQL, Python, Data modeling, Data quality.
Experience
Amazon
Seattle · United States
Senior Data Analyst
Jan 2021 - now
- As workstream lead, used SQL and Python for data analysis of service requests, checking duplicates, missing timestamps, and category changes; resolved data quality issues before comparing turnaround time across teams.
- With responsibility for the review standard, created a Tableau visualization with documented denominators and drill-down views; reconciled its totals against a Power BI reference report and explained differences caused by refresh timing.
- Documented the denominator and exclusion rules for conversion metrics, investigated differences between SQL extracts and the dashboard, and shared cohort-level findings with the business owner.
- Owned Tableau data-quality checks using reconciled source totals, resolved duplicate customer records and released a dashboard with explicit denominator definitions.
- Redesigned a weekly visualization using stakeholder task tests, reduced time to locate an outlier from 6 to 2 minutes and documented the excluded populations.
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington · United States
Data Analyst
Mar 2016 - Dec 2020
- Designed a matched cohort analysis for a customer education program; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams. Working with partner teams, kept adoption moving without creating new support or operating load.
- Investigated a discrepancy between a published metric and its source records, traced the transformation that changed the population, and corrected the calculation with a reproducible query.
- Compared the last successful data refresh with a failed run, separated missing source data from transformation errors, and reran only the affected interval. Kept the original query and corrected result together for review.
Selected project
Data Analyst — independent case study
Cross-functional project lead
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
- Built a governed weekly operating dashboard for 14 leaders; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams
- Generated synthetic source records with duplicates, late arrivals and corrected values; wrote assertions for row counts and key uniqueness, and recorded the expected effect of each case on the reported metric.
- Compared the analytical output with a manually calculated reference table, traced differences to a transformation step, and retained a data dictionary and rerun instructions alongside the corrected query.
- Owned the synthetic-data validation using a manually calculated reference, resolved duplicate-key inflation and completed a notebook that reproduces the corrected totals.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.S. Computer Science
Sep 2008 - Jun 2012
Relevant coursework: Algorithms, operating systems, databases, computer networks
Skills
Role expertise
SQL · Python · Data modeling · Data quality · Visualization · Stakeholder communication
Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate
Microsoft
Nov 2023
Publications
- Published an independent methods note using reproducible queries, explaining the data grain, excluded records and sensitivity of the result to a changed denominator.


