ALPHA GRACE B. TABANAO
Bay,LAG
Summary
Analytical and process-oriented Business/Quantitative Analyst with 28 units in Master of Arts in Strategic Planning and Policy Studies and a Bachelor degree in Statistics, in addition to 25 years of data science experience in the academe, research and manufacturing realms. An R- programmer, Power BI, Tableau, an SQL and TIBCO Spotfire user, passionate about using analytics to drive strategic business decisions. Excellent interpersonal skills, able to collaborate effectively with technical and nontechnical resources.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Human Resource Associate
Human Resource Management (HRM) Team WPRO - WHO
07.2023 - Current
- Collect, clean, summarize and analyze data for monthly and Quarterly reporting to Cabinet
- Maintain the HRM Intranet site
- Support for Recruitment processes
- Prepare powerpoint presentations of the Regional HR Manager for big meetings
- Prepare technical reports for the HRM team
Information Associate
Health Information and Intelligence (HII) Team Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) - WHO
07.2021 - 07.2023
- Processed data for SDGs monitoring and updating
- Maintained Western Pacific Health Data Platform
- Coordinated and edited OECD Report 2022
- Coordinated monthly meeting of Data Group
Data Manager/Senior Health Program Officer
Epidemiology Bureau-Department of Health
08.2020 - 06.2021
- Processed COVID-19 surveillance data extracted from the DOH COVIDKaya application in preparation for the daily epidemiology and surveillance public reports.
- Provided technical assistance on improving the data quality of surveillance data;
- Monitored and checked the daily extracts from COVIDKaya App for data processing, while coordinating with the COVIDKaya Maintenance group for any irregularities in the upload of data.
Business/Quantitative Analyst
Asurion Techlog Center Philippines
11.2017 - 12.2019
- Provided statistical recommendations on the graphical and numerical presentations of the dashboards developed (in Spotfire and Power BI) of team, incorporating effective data storytelling.
- Consolidated, validated and finalized quarterly incentive program (QIP) performance metrics’ scores of business units on a monthly and quarterly bases.
- Provided forecast for yield using simple moving average, exponential smoothing and ARIMA techniques using R and Microsoft Excel.
- Facilitated Descriptive Statistics training to production employees on a monthly basis.
- Prepared and documented technical and non-technical business requirement specifications, in accordance with ISO standards.
Specialist - Data Management
International Rice Research Institute
11.2011 - 03.2017
- Performed advanced statistical and graphical analyses on MET stages data in seven (7) locations in the Philippines and four (4) other Southeast Asian countries in an appropriate, timely and accurate manner.
- Generated reports on the seasonal and yearly results, ensuring high data accuracy.
- Supported the preparation and writing of technical reports and scientific data by analyzing and providing data from database.
Part Time College Instructor
Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Calamba
10.2009 - 10.2011
- Taught Statistics and Mathematics in two (2) colleges (School of Education, Arts, and Sciences and School of Nursing)
- Provided statistical thesis consultation services to graduating students
Project M&E Coordinator
German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
10.2007 - 12.2008
- Maintained BIMP-EAGA (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and East Asian Growth Areas) project website
- Coordinated/documented planning meetings with ADB and other key players to BIMP-EAGA project
- Started baseline data for the four (4) industries of BIMP-EAGA: Tourism, Palm Oil, Seaweed and Halal Products
- Updated BIMP-EAGA quarterly newsletter
Education
Master of Arts - Strategic Planning and Policy Studies
University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB)
Bachelor of Science - Statistics
College of Arts and Sciences
01.1998
Skills
- Certified People Analytics Specialist
- Statistical analysis
- Data analytics
- Advance Microsoft Office Tools use
- Power BI, Tableau Dashboarding
- Technical Report Writing
- Collaboration
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Executive presentations
- Teaching
- R programming
- SAS
- TIBCO Spotfire
- SQL
- HTML
- Python
Timeline
Human Resource Associate
Human Resource Management (HRM) Team WPRO - WHO
07.2023 - Current
Information Associate
Health Information and Intelligence (HII) Team Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) - WHO
07.2021 - 07.2023
Data Manager/Senior Health Program Officer
Epidemiology Bureau-Department of Health
08.2020 - 06.2021
Business/Quantitative Analyst
Asurion Techlog Center Philippines
11.2017 - 12.2019
Specialist - Data Management
International Rice Research Institute
11.2011 - 03.2017
Part Time College Instructor
Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Calamba
10.2009 - 10.2011
Project M&E Coordinator
German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
10.2007 - 12.2008
Bachelor of Science - Statistics
College of Arts and Sciences
Master of Arts - Strategic Planning and Policy Studies
University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB)