Sam Rushbrook
Vancouver,BC
Summary
Experienced professional with over 10 years in analytics and recent success in management roles. Skilled in leading teams, driving results, and overseeing complex projects with a focus on collaboration and adaptability. Demonstrates strong organizational and project management expertise, delivering impactful outcomes in dynamic environments. Committed to advancing responsibility and maximizing contributions to organizational success.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Analytics Specialist
WorkSafeBC
04.2023 - Current
- Apply Agile principles to drive customer-focused outcomes through iterative processes, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify areas of improvement, leading to increased operational effectiveness.
- Nurtured strong working relationships with clients, ensuring their needs were met while exceeding expectations on deliverables.
- Optimized project management, resulting in timely deliverables and 100% client satisfaction rates.
- Developed and maintain many key performance indicators and tracking metrics to evaluate prevention programs and measure success.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to identify business needs and data sources.
- Created data models and analysis to support decision-making processes.
- Mentored junior analysts, fostering professional development while enhancing overall team performance.
Principal Statistician
Ministry of Justice UK
08.2020 - 04.2024
- Lead Statistician for Prison Equality Statistics in England and Wales
- Led development and implementation of prison equality statistics, to meet Ministry's objectives in promoting fair and equal treatment within the criminal justice system
- Managed and developed team of 4 statisticians, encouraging professional growth and development
- Triage and assigned work to team of statisticians ensuring effective delivery of key departmental objectives
- Collaborated with internal and external business partners to understand business needs and identify analytical solutions
- Led analytical projects end-to-end to identify disparity and provide insight into prisoner experience of the criminal justice system
- Communicated analytical findings and provided advice to senior stakeholders and ministers
- Published official statistics on regular basis to inform policy decisions and public understanding following best practice
- Identified opportunities to improve prison equality data through modelling, automation and improvements to data pipelines using SQL, R and Python
Government Statistician
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
04.2018 - 08.2020
- Identified Business as Usual improvements, migrating data storage and processing from Microsoft Excel to SQL
- Created new analytical products for new social housing lettings to meet new business needs
- Communicated statistics and analytical findings to senior stakeholders and ministers
- Revamped National Statistical publication for new social housing statistics using insightful data visualizations
- Led team of 3 statisticians, encouraging professional development and departmental values
Higher Statistical Officer
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
04.2016 - 04.2018
- Lead for non-domestic energy use statistics for the UK
- Designed, oversaw and processed a survey of non-domestic premises energy consumption, working with contractors
- Created summary dashboards to enable non-technical stakeholders to interrogate data themselves to help understand business needs
- Carried out analytical projects to understand non-domestic energy consumption and emissions through modelling in R and querying data in SQL
- Communicating findings by summarizing technical information for a non-technical audience
Statistical Officer
Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom
10.2014 - 04.2016
- Statistical officer working in Rail Statistics
- Quality assurance of passenger count and crowding data for the railways to ensure accuracy and completeness
- Data processing and cleaning of passenger count and crowding data for use in modelling and publication
- Creating data visualizations for national statistical publications and presentations to effectively communicate findings
- Collaborating across the department on multi-model statistical release to ensure consistency and accuracy
- Responding to official correspondents
- Drafting the high-level rail strategy for the UK railways to inform decision-making and long-term planning
Education
Master of Science - MS - Social Statistics
University of Southampton
Southampton, Hampshire07.2014
Bachelor of Science - BS - Mathematics and Statistics
University of Southampton
Southampton, Hampshire07.2012
Skills
- Team Management
- Analytical Skills
- Communication
- Analytical project management
- Conflict resolution
- Customer focus
- Coaching and mentoring
- Performance monitoring
- Process improvement
- Presentations
Timeline
Senior Analytics Specialist
WorkSafeBC
04.2023 - Current
Principal Statistician
Ministry of Justice UK
08.2020 - 04.2024
Government Statistician
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
04.2018 - 08.2020
Higher Statistical Officer
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
04.2016 - 04.2018
Statistical Officer
Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom
10.2014 - 04.2016
Master of Science - MS - Social Statistics
University of Southampton
Bachelor of Science - BS - Mathematics and Statistics
University of Southampton
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