Emily K Brantner

about

I'm the Analytics Team Lead for City Data (compliance, ops, trust & safety) at Bird. I spend my days collaborating with stakeholders in product and operations, building ETLs, writing queries, testing products (A/B, pre/post, etc), and creating dashboards. In my time at Bird so far, I've transformed the city data team from reactive to proactive and successfully scaled the amount of day-to-day work from a five-person to a two-person job by implementing more standardized processes, better products, and reusable tools, giving our analysts more time to find new insights and less time on basic reporting.

Before Bird, I picked up some graphic design skills from a year at the EPA as an outreach associate. I designed all of our publicly-facing items such as books, calendars, and posters. I taught myself SQL and used that to leverage a role at SAP where I was a senior analytics consultant and then a senior project manager in charge of a $30 million dollar implementation with over 70+ global consultants reporting into me on the project. While at SAP, I started my MS at UC Berkeley in Information and Data Science, and used that to break away from SAP analytics products and into the pure data world. I sharpened my skills on my own and in school until I landed my current role at Bird.

Before I was in the corporate world, I was a herpetologist (one who studies reptiles and amphibians) and received my MS in Biology. I spent months in the jungles of Panama and Costa Rica, collecting frogs and swabbing them for batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a fungus that's killing amphibians in temperate climates around the world. I also re-populated a lake in Wyoming with a speciess of frog that was previously extinct in the wild!

You can view my MS Thesis and the R code along with it here!