Tara Crabtree

Tara Crabtree, MBA, has over 20 years of experience in data analysis and project management. Tara has held various senior roles in companies such as Fastly, DigitalOcean, TomTom, and Tele Atlas.

In their current position as a Staff Data Analyst at Fastly, Tara utilizes their expertise in product operations to contribute to the company's data analysis initiatives.

Prior to that, Tara worked as a Senior Data Analyst at DigitalOcean, where they played a key role in infrastructure analysis. Tara developed predictive models, created dashboards, and implemented ETL pipelines to improve data usability for the business.

During their time at TomTom, Tara held multiple roles, including Manager of Technology Deployment, Data Mining, and Analytics. In this position, they led an Agile project management initiative that resulted in significant improvements in backlog reduction, time to resolution, and deadline adherence. Additionally, Tara contributed to the migration of the department to AWS for enhanced storage, tools, and automation.

Tara's earlier experience at TomTom includes roles such as Senior Quality, Training, and Methods Coordinator, where they designed machine learning models and automated employee feedback review processes, resulting in improved accuracy and efficiency.

Before joining TomTom, Tara worked at Tele Atlas as a Geographic Field Analyst Team Leader and Local Data Collector. Tara led a team in improving proprietary maps through research and analysis, and also developed a new reporting system that reduced administrative tasks.

Overall, Tara Crabtree's extensive work experience showcases their proficiency in data analysis, project management, and process improvement across various industries and companies.

Tara Crabtree holds a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree in Marketing from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Prior to that, they obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Geography and Scandinavian Studies from the University of Washington. Additionally, Tara holds an AAS degree in Multimedia Communications from Peninsula College. Tara has also pursued various certifications, including Agile at Work: Getting Better with Agile Retrospectives, Delegating Tasks to Your Team, DevOps Foundations: Lean and Agile, Lean Technology Strategy: Building High-Performing Teams, Learning JIRA Software, Python for Data Science, SQL for Statistics Essential Training, Stay Lean with Kanban, Agile at Work: Driving Productive Agile Meetings, Leading Productive One-on-One Meetings, Lean Foundations, Lean Six Sigma Foundations, Amazon Web Services Essential Training, Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team, Enterprise Agile: Changing Your Culture, Learning Data Science: Understanding the Basics, Learning Hadoop, Machine Learning & AI Foundations: Value Estimations, New Manager Foundations, and NoSQL for SQL Professionals. These certifications were obtained from institutions such as LinkedIn and DataCamp.