Mark Sharp
Decision Science Analyst Senior at USAA
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Sharp is a Decision Science analyst and seasoned data scientist with over three decades of quantitative and bioinformatics experience and 14 years in modern data science roles, currently driving decision analytics at USAA. He blends deep academic training (PhD in Microbiology & Immunology) with hands-on engineering—building reproducible analysis pipelines, CI-driven QA/QC, custom statistical software, and data dashboards that turned a 1,120-hour process into a 400-hour workflow while cutting errors by over 90%. Mark has led teams through complex regulated environments (FDA, USDA, AAALAC) and migrated multiple legacy animal colony systems to streamlined, auditable platforms that automated error-prone Excel workflows. Comfortable from lab bench to production database, he applies NLP, ML, anomaly detection, and visualization to improve operational decisions and research outcomes. Known for technical writing, training, and process design, he also brings an uncommon blend of immunogenetics research background and long-term database development supervision to applied decision science.
13 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Biology, BS, Biology at Abilene Christian UniversityPh. D., Microbiology and Immunology, Ph. D., Microbiology and Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine
Github Skills (60)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rmsharp/rmsutilityr
Jul 2017 - Sep 2024
Utility Functions Used for Reproducible Research
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 146 pushes in 7 years 3 months
opcodesutilitiescapistranocrosswordloops
rmsharp/nprcgenekeepr
Mar 2017 - Jan 2025
Implements Genetic Tools for Colony Management
Contributions:2 releases, 13 PRs, 867 pushes in 8 years
geneticcolony
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