While serving as a Youth Development Specialist with the United States Peace Corps, I held an officer position with our post's Gender and Development Committee, witnessing firsthand how the intersection of data and policy acts as a powerful force for progress. Through my background in Bioinformatics and Biology, I have seen data impact global health in real time, and I'm eager to continue developing as a Data Scientist, though now with policy-focused goals. I am therefore thrilled to apply for this Research Analyst position, knowing my work will shape consumer complaint analyses and policies.

I am currently working as a Computational Biology Extern with the Statistics and Algorithms group at Adaptive Biotechnologies in Seattle, Washington, and have been tasked with a wide array of data science projects, from machine learning to tool development. I have honed a number of core machine learning skills during the externship, notably the classifier I scripted to design and analyze a new clinical diagnostic, or the regression model I developed to assess the accuracy of one of the company's most lucrative clinical tests. The teams I work with are highly collaborative and interdisciplinary. I recently wrote a Python tool for research scientists that takes inconsistent Excel data, cleans it, and a returns an interpretable spreadsheet for widespread internal use. For my Master's capstone project, I worked with a small team to design a pipeline that assembled the first Sagebrush Lizard genome to a high degree of accuracy. This was a pride-inducing feat for our team, as this lizard species has known Lyme Disease immunity and is an object of fascination to the medical community. 

Additionally, I have substantial experience in data exploration and visualization of biological data, which I believe puts me in a unique position to evaluate highly specialized datasets, and I'm eager to conduct analyses that I know will support current and future program operations. In addition to technical skill advancement, I am eager to continue my professional development through various mentorship opportunities with the CFPB. I look forward to discussing this position further with you.

Non-Competitive Eligibility is active through May 2021 if a hiring agency chooses to grant an extension for the eighteen months spent in graduate school.

Sincerely,

Cornell Boone