Summary
Amber Gillenwaters is a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst with eight years of experience translating complex data into operational insights for healthcare, education, and nonprofit organizations. She blends advanced statistical methods, machine learning, and full-stack data engineering (R, Python, SQL, Cognos, Qlik) to build dashboards, automated pipelines, and robust survey analyses that drive decisions across enterprise systems. Her work spans forecasting and supply-chain optimization to semantic analysis of open-text survey responses—one project identifying latent barriers rural teachers face in CS education was published from a federally funded longitudinal study. A proven independent consultant and former founder of Gillenwaters Analytics, she has engineered scalable solutions that cut costs and reduced hosting needs for international clients. Active in community tech leadership as a Google Developer Group leader and Women Techmaker Ambassador, she pairs technical depth with outreach and curriculum design. Based in Springfield, Missouri, she combines academic rigor (MS Computer Science) with pragmatic product delivery and an uncommon knack for turning messy textual data into actionable programmatic insights.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Psychology at Drury University
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Missouri State University