1. Orriana C. Sill
7706 Spreading Oak Lane, Elkridge MD
(607)-227-1051 orrianacsill@gmail.com
Objective
Efficient data analyst with experience in business reporting, statistical analysis, excel pivots and excel formulas seeks a
position to fully utilize and expand my current skill set.
Special Skills
Most Relevant – Excel formulas, pivot tables, pivot charts, financial analysis, PowerPoint, Google fusion tables, SQL
(Simple scripts on read-only databases involving Select, Where, Join functions etc.), SPSS or JMP for statistical analysis,
VBA for Excel macros, Adobe Illustrator, Limited MATLAB, SAS.
Misc. – Technical and SOP writing, academic writing, software testing, knowledge engineering, strong background in life
and health sciences, math modeling and statistics, experimental design, public speaking, medical terminology/knowledge.
Work Experience
Freelance Data Analyst – (Self-Employed) Sept 2015 – Present
I perform a variety of Excel data management, technical writing, editing and/or statistical analysis from my home
office for private clients.
Business Intelligence Analyst – XFI Corporation July 2014 – Sept 2015
Performed routine and ad hoc business reporting for clients as well as internal needs for a small software company. Our
main clients were within health and auto industries. I analyzed and/or reported both financial and sales data for our
clients and provided additional related customer support. Source data was gathered from our software or SQL scripts,
merged and analyzed in excel and then presented in excel, PowerPoint and pdf formats. Other duties included QC/Audits
of data integrity, SOP writing and maintenance, target mapping and management of ETL specification documentation. I
also performed basic data modeling tasks, created Google fusion tables and maps, programmed basic excel macros in
VBA, performed and documented software testing, and engaged in data mining.
Lead Resident Aide - Clare Bridge of Ithaca 2012-2013
Assisted senior citizens with various dementia diagnoses with activities of daily living and other basic health needs,
including medication distribution. Took position to fulfill patient care prerequisite for physician assistant program.
Relevant skills to business include de-escalation techniques, client relations, team leadership, and time management.
Graduate Researcher - Smith lab of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 2007-2012
Conducted neurobiological memory research with rats on a systems and cellular level. Performed standardized rodent
brain surgeries and other histological and medical procedures frequently used SPSS, MATLAB, JMP and excel for
managing and analyzing data and performing statistical tests. PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator were used for academic
presentation and poster production respectively. Oversaw undergraduate student researchers and their projects.
Course Instructor or Teaching Assistant - Psychology Department, Cornell University 2007-2011
Teaching Assistant: Worked as a Teaching Assistant for various neuroscience or psychology courses and their labs.
Course Instructor: Cognitive Neuroscience (Fall 2009).
Lab Manager, Research Assistant - Delprato Lab of Learning and Memory 2005-2007
Assisted in learning and memory experiments using human test subjects. Main duties included recruiting and scheduling
subjects, overseeing experiments and debriefing subjects. I entered and verified all data in SPSS and ran basic statistical
tests. From July 2006 – June 2007 I acted as lab manager. In addition to other duties, I oversaw and did preliminary
interviews on all undergraduate assistants, organized scheduling and trained new assistants.
2. References for all positions above are available upon request.
Education
Physician Assistant Studies: 2 semesters completed.
Shenandoah University, Winchester VA
July 2013 – Mar 2014
Behavioral and Evolutionary Neuroscience (M.A.)
Cornell University, Ithaca NY
May 2013
Psychology (B.S) Minors: Math, Human Biology.
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti MI
June 2007
