Junior Data Analyst résumé example, in the Aria design
Six months of analytics training on top of five years running a dental practice, with a contract analyst role already underway.
Written for United States, at entry level, in the students & graduates field, shown in the Aria design. Every name, employer, address and number below is invented.
Data analyst six months out of a full-time analytics program, working a part-time contract while looking for a first full-time role. Built the donor-retention dashboard a 9,000-name file had never had, and spent five years before that turning a dental practice front office into numbers people acted on.
Experience
Data Analyst (part-time contract), Hilliard Trails Conservancy · July 2026 – present
20 hours a week for a land trust with a 9,000-name donor file.
Built the retention dashboard the organization had never had, showing that 38% of lapsed donors left after a single gift.
Deduplicated the donor file against 11 years of event records, removing 1,340 duplicate households before a mailing that cost $0.62 apiece.
Automates the monthly board report in Python; the previous version took a volunteer six hours to assemble by hand.
Practice Manager, Glenmoor Family Dentistry · August 2020 – December 2025
Scheduling, billing and a six-person front office for a practice seeing 140 patients a week.
Cut no-show appointments from 14% to 5% by rebuilding the reminder schedule around when patients had actually booked.
Recovered $58,000 in denied insurance claims in two years by tracking denial reasons nobody had recorded before.
Renegotiated the supply contract after charting 18 months of usage, taking $9,400 a year out of consumables.
Projects
Columbus bus reliability — Capstone: where the delays on a city transit system actually come from.
Ohio small-business lending gap — Federal loan disclosures joined to county business counts.
Education
Certificate Data Analytics, full-time program · Riverlight Data Academy · January 2026 – June 2026
B.A. Communication · Ohio University · August 2016 – May 2020
Visualization: Tableau, Power BI, Matplotlib, Dashboard design
Data handling: PostgreSQL, Data cleaning, Record deduplication, ETL scripting, Google Sheets
Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate — Microsoft
Why this Junior Data Analyst résumé works
The capstone carries a finding, not a stack: three routes accounting for 41% of delays over ten minutes, from 14 months of arrival data. That is what a hiring manager wants a bootcamp project to prove.
Education leads because the Riverlight Data Academy certificate is the newest qualification, and “620 hours” tells a reader how serious the program was without overselling it.
The dental practice years are rewritten as analysis, no-shows cut from 14% to 5% and $58,000 of denied claims recovered, so the career change reads as the same skill in a new setting.
The part-time contract at Hilliard Trails Conservancy shows paid data work already underway, with 1,340 duplicate households removed before a mailing, which answers the first doubt about any bootcamp graduate.
Junior Data Analyst résumé: common questions
Should a bootcamp graduate put education first on a resume?
Yes, when the bootcamp is the main evidence for the new role and the earlier career is in a different field. Once you have a year of paid analyst work, move experience to the top.
How do you describe a bootcamp project on a data analyst resume?
State the question, the data and the finding with a number, then the tools: “14 months of arrival data; three routes caused 41% of long delays; Python, pandas, Tableau”. Link the write-up if it is public.
How do career changers show transferable experience on a data analyst resume?
Rewrite earlier roles around the measuring and deciding you did: rates you tracked, money you recovered, reports you built. Keep each role to two or three bullets so the data work stays the focus.
