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Professional resume for Clark Ruttinger.
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Clark Ruttinger

Data & Analytics Platform Leader
Workforce Analytics | R/Python/SQL | Shiny/Posit Deployment | Client-Facing Data Products

Park City, Utah
ceruttinger@gmail.com
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Professional Summary

Data and analytics leader with 15+ years building reproducible data products, workforce models, dashboards, and decision-support tools for government, healthcare, association, and consulting clients. Experienced translating complex business and policy questions into data pipelines, statistical models, interactive applications, and executive-facing recommendations. Strong R/Python/SQL background with hands-on experience in Shiny, Posit Connect, cloud-hosted analytics environments, data validation, documentation, and modern data architecture patterns including DuckDB and object-storage based workflows.

Skills

  • Analytics & Modeling: workforce supply/demand modeling, projection methods, microsimulation, survey research, program evaluation, geospatial analysis, data quality validation
  • Data Products: R Shiny applications, dashboards, stakeholder-facing reporting tools, reusable dashboard frameworks, public analytics products
  • Programming & Data Tools: R, Python, SQL, DuckDB, Excel, VBA, Git, Quarto/R Markdown, Shiny, Posit Connect
  • Data Engineering & Workflow: ETL/data cleaning, reproducible workflows, dataset profiling, documentation, cloud-hosted analytics environments, direct-query architecture concepts
  • Leadership & Delivery: client-facing consulting, executive communication, project scoping, technical translation, staff mentorship, cross-functional collaboration
  • Domains: public-sector analytics, healthcare workforce, labor market analysis, health policy, regulated data environments

Work Experience

GlobalData

Director, Health Workforce Consulting

Team Portfolio
October 2022 – May 2026

  • Led complex workforce analytics engagements for state agencies, hospital associations, professional societies, and federal clients, translating analytic outputs into practical planning, policy, and investment recommendations.
  • Directed annual health workforce projection updates, expanded projections to new occupations, revised behavioral health projection methods, and implemented additional validation steps that reduced client revision cycles.
  • Built and maintained reusable R Shiny and dashboard components, including a standalone BLS component and unified client dashboard framework deployed through Posit Connect.
  • Designed a DuckDB + S3 direct-query proof of concept to replace heavier data warehouse assumptions with a simpler, lower-friction architecture for analytic workloads.
  • Developed documentation for dataset profiles, data paths, staffing generation, and annual update workflows to improve repeatability, onboarding, and handoff.
  • Supported technical and analytic delivery across major client projects, including Florida nursing education and workforce reports, Hawaii nursing projections, Arkansas and Tennessee workforce reports, and professional association supply/demand studies.
  • Collaborated with internal consulting, HEOR, modeling, and technical teams to scope deliverables, resolve data-quality issues, and align analyses with customer decision needs.

Utah Health Workforce Information Center

Founding Director

July 2022 – October 2022

Utah Medical Education Council

Interim Executive Director; Director, Workforce Research; Senior Analyst; Research Analyst

January 2010 – June 2022

  • Led research staff and managed statewide workforce research programs covering physicians, nurses, APRNs, dentists, pharmacists, PAs, and behavioral health professions.
  • Designed and managed data cleaning, warehousing, modeling, survey, and visualization processes for statewide workforce supply, demand, distribution, and training pipeline analyses.
  • Built cloud-hosted research infrastructure, R Shiny publication capacity, and a Neo4j graph database with a web interface for querying and analyzing state APCD data.
  • Created methodology and data-linkage strategy for legislatively required nursing employment demand analysis; mentored analysts and improved reporting frequency and consistency.
  • Authored and edited research reports, policy briefs, technical reports, and executive presentations used by legislators, educators, healthcare administrators, and national partners.
  • Recipient of IBM Healthcorps grant to model Primary Care workforce based on population health needs News article about the project Project presentation to Utah Legislature.

Earlier Public Sector and Nonprofit Roles

State of Utah; The Road Home; Wasatch Homeless Health Care; Valley Mental Health

2002 – 2015

  • Built foundation in public programs, administrative hearings, grant writing, case coordination, eligibility policy, mediation, and direct service delivery.
  • Used SQL interfaces, macros, and database systems to improve accuracy and efficiency in administrative and reporting workflows.

Publications & Public Work

Education

University of Utah

  • Master of Business Administration; Certificate in Information Systems, 2017
  • Master of Public Administration, emphasis in Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2007
  • B.A., Political Science; Certificate in International Relations, 2002
  • B.A., Spanish, 2002

Selected Service

  • Peer Reviewer, Journal of Rural and Remote Health, 2021–present
  • Peer Reviewer, Human Resources for Health, 2022–present
  • Board Member and Board President, National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers, 2018–2020
  • Grant Reviewer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services / HRSA, 2011–2024
  • Planning Commissioner and Commission Chair, Salt Lake City Planning Commission, 2011–2019