Curriculum Vitae

Devin Oommen

Chicago, IL · devin.oommen@gmail.com · 630-456-6784 · LinkedIn ↗ · GitHub ↗

Tools & Skills

Tools & Languages

R Python SQL Excel / VBA R Shiny Jupyter scikit-learn pandas NumPy tidyverse ggplot2 BeautifulSoup Git / GitHub Tableau REST APIs

Methods & Techniques

Regression & Classification OLS / GLM (robust SEs) Econometrics Causal Inference Monte Carlo Simulation ANOVA Power Analysis / CUPED Data Wrangling & ETL Web Scraping Geographic Visualization Log-Linear Models Interaction Effects

Work Experience

Revolution New Medicine

Sept 2025 – Dec 2025
Operations Systems Analyst
  • Primary technical owner for business-critical reporting, scheduling support, and closeout processes — balancing frontline operations with backend systems engineering.
  • Built and maintained Excel/VBA automations that standardized daily operating reports, improved data integrity, and reduced manual prep time through repeatable, button-driven workflows.
  • Coded in R to build automated reporting infrastructure; developed dashboards to expand access to data and analytics across the organization.

Shaw Local — The Daily Chronicle

July 2025 – Present
Freelance News Reporter
  • Produce news content on deadline; pitch enterprise stories aligned to editorial goals.

Northern Star (NIU)

Jan 2025 – May 2025
News Editor
  • Achieved 155% increase in average daily page views over four months; monthly unique users reached 46k.
  • Built a 250-PDF crime-log scraper in Python; integrated R analysis into an interactive crime map.
  • Investigated fire code violations using FOIA requests; documented 15 months of administrative delays preceding a fire that displaced 60 residents.
  • Analyzed user behavior; collaborated with editorial, design, and IT teams.

Northern Star (NIU)

Aug 2023 – Dec 2024
News Reporter
  • Covered every city council meeting over six months; 1,000–3,000 views per article.
  • Reported on university policy and campus events with interviews and data analysis.

Haroon Atcha for COD Board Campaign

Dec 2022 – May 2023
Data Analyst
  • Analyzed a 600,000-row Illinois voter file to compute precinct-level deviation from historical Democratic baseline.
  • Identified statistically significant underperformance in target precincts; built field recommendations and targeting strategy.
  • Supported campaign that received 40,000+ votes in community college board election.

Evolve Fitness & Training

Oct 2023 – July 2025
Personal Trainer
  • Led 1–3 group classes weekly; coached safe movement and positive member experience.

COD Courier

Aug 2021 – May 2023
News Reporter
  • Reported on Board of Trustees meetings and campus events; maintained student newspaper website.

Unify One Solutions

Aug 2019 – May 2020
Software Consultant
  • Implemented rigorous testing protocols; identified 15+ critical bugs prior to release.
  • Automated regression tests; uncovered 127 UI defects, accelerating release cycles.

Education

Northern Illinois University

2025
B.S. Political Science (Honors), Data Science Minor (Equivalent)
  • Associate University Honors; Mortar Board Honor Society
  • Coursework: Econometrics, Computational Statistics, International Political Economy, Politics of Developing Areas

College of DuPage

2023
A.A. Liberal Arts (Honors)

College of DuPage

2022
Python Proficiency Coding Certificate (Honors)

Presentations & Research

Determinants of Household Electrification — A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Socioeconomic & Gender Inequities in India

Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) · 2025

Statistical analysis using SHRUG dataset (600k rows) examining links between electrification and household welfare in rural India. Built multiple linear regression models with interaction terms; identified a positive effect of domestic electricity access (~1.6–3.2% increase in estimated monthly consumption per capita).

Do Voters in Community College Board of Trustees Elections Vote Along Party Lines?

College of DuPage Research Symposium · 2023

Analyzed ISBE campaign finance and election data; found correlation between fundraising and voter turnout. Examined demographic and party affiliation data to uncover trends in candidate success and representation.

Data Privacy & Data Regulations as a Function of Hegemonic Power

College of DuPage Library Research Symposium · 2021

Linked data regulatory regimes to global power structures; examined how hegemonic states shape international data governance frameworks.

Technical Projects

Monthly Crime-Log ETL Pipeline

Northern Star
  • Python script to monthly scrape new PDF crime logs and normalize schema.
  • Leaflet/Google Maps visualization; R Shiny app to plot incidents on an interactive map.

Legislative Bill Stats — Full-Stack Analytics Dashboard  Live App ↗

Python (FastAPI) · SQLite · JavaScript · Chart.js · D3.js
  • Built a full-stack web application (FastAPI + vanilla JS) that aggregates bill sponsorship, cosponsorship, and enactment outcomes for the U.S. Congress (Congress.gov API) and Illinois General Assembly (ILGA FTP XML).
  • Implemented resilient data ingestion with pagination, parallel fetchers, retries/timeouts, background refresh, and layered caching (disk + SQLite) to manage API rate limits while keeping the UI responsive.
  • Designed an indexed SQLite schema (legislators, bills, cosponsors, laws) and computed derived metrics including public/private law breakdown, time-to-enactment, and bipartisan co-sponsorship scoring.
  • Delivered an interactive dashboard with filter/sort/search, party-level aggregate statistics, leaderboards (most sponsored, most enacted, highest success rate, most bipartisan, fastest to enact), CSV export, Chart.js legislative activity timelines, and D3.js co-sponsor network visualizations (force-directed and hierarchical edge bundling).
  • Added pytest unit and integration tests and a cron-friendly refresh script for automated data updates.

Monte Carlo Simulation Study — ANOVA Robustness

  • Designed Monte Carlo simulation (n=700 iterations) in R to evaluate ANOVA robustness under varying effect sizes and error distributions.
  • Analyzed Type I error rates and statistical power across normal and non-normal (exponential) error conditions.

Presidential Election Data Pipeline

Research Assistant
  • Scraped and standardized presidential primary election data from 100+ state-party PDF documents.
  • Built reproducible data pipeline for professor's ongoing research.

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes Scraper

Research Assistant — College of DuPage
  • Scraped and parsed board of trustees meeting minutes to extract structured data for faculty research project.

Awards & Recognition

2025
John G. & Barbara C. Peters Scholarship for Outstanding Public Service
2025
Jim Killam Mentor Award
2025
Roy G. Campbell "Best Damn Reporter" Award
2024
ICPA News Story of the Year — Honorable Mention
2023
ICCJA Reporter of the Year — 1st Place
2021
COD Library Research Symposium — Honorable Mention
2021
Academic Excellence — COD Political Science

Extracurriculars & Volunteer

Democratic National Convention — Volunteer (2024) Associated Press — Election Stringer (2022) Economic Student Association (2024)