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Maya Beck

I’m a San Diego-born UCSD graduate, writer, and former nonprofit professional aiming to transform my 10+ years of CRM database administration, website management, and strategic communications experience into a data analytics career

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Experience

September 2020 – March 2024 image UCSD Sixth College

Instructional Assistant

  • Guided 32 students per quarter through 40 hours of interdisciplinary discussion sections
  • Utilized grading rubric on roughly 60 major and 90 minor assignments per quarter
  • Provided actionable feedback on essays, presentations, short films, and other assignments


October 2019 – August 2020 image Youthprise

Communications Specialist

  • Participated in Wordpress website audit and co-led updated website redesign
  • Managed weekly communications across social media platforms (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook)
  • Collaborated with multiple departments to develop visualizations, digital publications, and annual reports
  • Utilized dashboards in Google Analytics and Hootsuite to guide communications department goals


December 2016 – July 2018 image Cedar Cultural Center

Development Coordinator

  • Supported Development Director in raising over $1 million annually via 40+ grants, proposals, and reports
  • Collated data from CRM databases, Excel spreadsheets, and surveys to maintain database of over 400 donors
  • Maintained annual grants database of 200+ government, foundation, and corporate donors in Salesforce
  • Developed and analyzed monthly surveys of 500+ patrons to report to staff and stakeholders


July 2015 – October 2016 image Bedlam Lowertown

Communications & Box Office Manager

  • Managed and maintained patron and event databases through PatronManager and Salesforce
  • Practiced ongoing cleaning and routine CRM database upkeep to ensure patron data accuracy and integrity
  • Tracked attendance for events of over 300 attendees while handling cash and credit transactions
  • Utilized analytics of Facebook, Twitter, and MailChimp to drive marketing, promotion, and outreach
  • Web editor and administrator. Participated in the drafting of WordPress website relaunch


August 2014 – July 2015 image Lifetrack

Employment Data Strategy Associate

  • Analyzed 4 years of client placement data and presented demographic findings to supervisors
  • Collated data for 400+ employer profiles to develop map-integrated database through Google Fusion Tables
  • Utilized storytelling to showcase Google Fusion Tables usage and capabilities in staff pitch presentation


Education

2024 image Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate

Data Analytics

Completed coursework in Python, R, SQL, data visualization, data processing, and other data analytics essentials.


2024 image University of California, San Diego

Master of Fine Arts, Writing

Thesis complete with publication forthcoming


2011 image University of Redlands

Bachelor of Arts, Double Major in Studio Art and Philosophy

Thesis: “A Defense of Aristotelian Mimesis.” Graduated summa cum laude with departmental honors


Projects

2024 image Coursera Capstone Project

Case Study: Bellabeat Health

Case Study: Bellabeat wellness study on Kaggle


2024 image Independent project

Story Data Story: Ideas Masterlist

Story Data Story 1


2024 image Independent project

Story Data Story: Literary Magazine Rankings

Data Story Coming Soon!


2024 image Independent project

Story Data Story: The Language of Flowers

Data Story Coming Soon!


2024 image Independent project

Story Data Story: Black Geographies

Data Story Coming Soon!


2024 image Independent project

Story Data Story: Unpacking Agent Rejections

Data Story Coming Soon!


2024 image Independent project

Story Data Story: Thesis Setting Cast & Fauna

Story Data Story 3


2024 image Independent project

How do my watchlist and ratings compare with MyAnimeList stats?

Case Study Coming Soon!


About Me

I bring creative thinking to analysis and analytic thinking to creativity.

I'm the kind of wonky nerd who makes worldbuilding spreadsheets of all her 400+ fictional characters, watches videos essays on city planning for entertainment, and thinks that the symbolic logic class required for my undergraduate Philosophy degree was "pretty fun, in retrospect!"

I'm a bit of a jack-of-all-trades in that I have worked in everything from event security to trail maintenance to clothing retail to scene painting to grantwriting to election judging, but I am determined for my next step to take me into the world of data analytics. I hope to remain there for years while continuing to write and publish speculative fiction that envisions the better world I aim to help create.

I would love to work for any San Diego-local or remote organization that uses data to better the world.


Skills

  • Advanced Adobe Suite skills: (PhotoShop, InDesign, Illustrator)
  • Data visualization skills (Tableau)
  • Broad email marketing experience: (MailChimp, Constant Contact)
  • Advanced experience with web technologies: (Wordpress, Squarespace, GitHub)
  • Expert Excel skills: (regular expressions, Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, MATCH)
  • Expertise in CRM databases: (Salesforce, ResearchPoint, Raiser’s Edge, PatronManager, CiviCRM)
  • Advanced programming languages knowledge: (Python, SQL, R, HTML, CSS)

Achievements & Strengths

  • MBTI: INTP
  • Member of American MENSA
  • StrengthsFinder: Input | Learner | Intellection | Ideation | Strategic
  • Fiction writer with 20+ fiction and nonfiction publications
  • Awarded over $20k in freelance grantwriting for fiction
  • Awarded 10+ writing fellowships and mentorships
  • Has seen almost 3k hours of anime across 500+ series and movies
  • Book library comprises 250+ books
  • Tea collection comprise over 30 varieties

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Maya Beck

I’m a San Diego-born UCSD graduate, writer, and former nonprofit professional aiming to transform my 10+ years of CRM database administration, website management, and strategic communications experience into a data analytics career.