Cathy White

At Booz Allen Hamilton, I turn ambiguous operational and financial questions into analysis and tools that support decisions. I've analyzed Living Quarters Allowance data, built Power BI dashboards and PowerApps, and created a historical what-if tool for financial leadership.

I led the redesign and automation of a monthly reporting process supporting 33 reports and roughly 50 authors, approvers, and alternates. The SharePoint and Power Platform solution automated about 20 hours of manual work each month while improving report consistency and centralizing data for leadership analytics.

Supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement, I built an R Shiny dashboard to modernize a large weekly report, re-engineered undocumented SQL logic, and validated recurring reporting as deputy lead. I also learned and debugged an LSTM forecasting implementation in Python within two weeks, delivering working code for both the published and corrected versions.

My PhD research in astrophysics at Johns Hopkins University strengthened how I investigate complex systems, test assumptions, and communicate defensible results. I enjoy getting to the core of a problem, learning unfamiliar domains quickly, and making technical work useful to nontechnical decision makers.