With seven years of experience working on multi-million dollar reseach projects, I understand how to leverage data into products and productivity.
Generalized Linear Models, Spatially Explicit Regression
Map Production, Geospatial Databases, and Data Integration
Dynamic and interative web applications made with Rshiny
Using research to frame problems, and data to reveal patterns
Technically savvy scientist with a record of fluidly working on multiple large projects. Understands how to turn data into insight and productivity.
Research | Communication | Programming |
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Biological Systems Modeling | Data Visualization | R |
Data Integration. | Map production | SQL |
Data quality control | Web Applications | GIT |
Knowledge management tools | Spanish - fluent | Docker |
Data Librarian - EcoHealth Alliance - New York, New York
2021-Present
Data Scientist - Accenture Federal Services - Washington, D.C.
2019-2021
Biosurveillance Scientist - Accenture Federal Services - Washington D.C
2016-Present
Application Developer - Free Lance - Washington D.C.
2015-2018
GIS Specialist and Spatial Analyst - University of Colorado Museum of Natural History - Boulder, Colorado
2015
Research Assistant - University of Colorado Boulder - Boulder, Colorado
2013-2015
Research Technician - University of Wisconsin Madison - Madison, Wisconsin
2008-2013
Master of Arts Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Colorado Boulder - 2013-2015
Bachelor of Science Evolutionary Biology, Spanish Linguistics, Zoology
University of Wisconsin Madison - 2006-2011
ICAgile Certified Professional
Accenture Agile Institute - 2016
Baker, Heather, Asher Grady, Collin Schwantes, Emily Iarocci, Rachel Campbell, Gus Calapristi, Scott Dowson, Michelle Hart, Lauren E Charles, and Teresa Quitugua. 2018. “NBIC Biofeeds: Deploying a New, Digital Tool for Open Source Biosurveillance Across Federal Agencies.” Online Journal of Public Health Informatics 10 (1).
Carper, Adrian L, Collin J Schwantes, Stacy B Endriss, Andrew P Norton, M Deane Bowers, and Mary A Jamieson. 2017. “Exploring Variation in Local and Landscape Factors Driving Grassland Bee Communities in Colorado.” In 2017 Esa Annual Meeting (August 6–11). ESA.
Carper, Adrian L, Collin J Schwantes, and Mary A Jamieson. 2019. “A New State Record of the Rare Bee, Cemolobus Ipomoeae (Hymenoptera, Apidae), from Colorado, Usa.” Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 91 (2): 171–75.
Iarocci, Emily, Collin Schwantes, Anne Folley, Chandra Lesniak, Tiana Garrett-Cherry, and Teresa Quitugua. 2018. “NBIC Collaboration at Multiple Jurisdictional Levels During the Zika Epidemic.” Online Journal of Public Health Informatics 10 (1).
Schwantes, Collin J, Adrian L Carper, and M Deane Bowers. 2018. “Solitary Floral Specialists Do Not Respond to Cryptic Flower-Occupying Predators.” Journal of Insect Behavior 31 (6): 642–55.
Talamas, Elijah J, Joseph Thompson, Amy Cutler, Samantha Fitzsimmons Schoenberger, Anthony Cuminale, Trenton Jung, Norman F Johnson, et al. 2017. “An Online Photographic Catalog of Primary Types of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.” Journal of Hymenoptera Research 56: 187.
I am always looking for new and interesting projects. Email me if you think I would be a fit for your team!
262.389.8518
To help inform pollinator plantings in the western Great Plains, I built a pollination network for the region using museum records from GBIF. This network identifies plant species that are essential to network robusticity, and the species that increase diversity by supporting specialist bees.
Bee Behavior Experiment filmed by Travis Bildahl on Vimeo.