Anna Swigart

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Director, Data Engineering at Helix

Seattle, Washington, United States

Overview

Anna Swigart is a data engineering leader focused on making data useful and accessible, currently as Director of Data Engineering at Helix. Her career has spanned from neuroscience labs to scaling data platforms at Zillow, driven by a passion for using data to solve human problems. She holds a Masters from UC Berkeley.

Outside of her technical leadership, Anna is passionate about mentoring and team development, aiming to connect people with a companys mission. In college, she served as President for the University of Washingtons chapter of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, reflecting a long-standing interest in human-centric endeavors.

Her early career in a neuroscience lab, wrestling with messy datasets, sparked her drive to build better data systems for researchers and scientists.

Personality Overview

Value Driven

Assertive

Curious

They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince.  They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting information. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing.

Topics They Care About

Genomic Data Platforms
Her team at Helix builds foundational data products to accelerate integrating genomic data into patient care and precision medicine.
Data Governance
She has extensive experience leading teams focused on data discovery, data privacy, and scalable data quality platforms from her time at Zillow.
Anomaly Detection
Co-authored publications on building automated anomaly detection systems and methods for identifying the root cause of anomalies in time-series data.

Media Appearances

How Anna Swigart powers the future of healthcare at Helix. Featured in PowerToFly

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Work History

8-2023
Director, Data Engineering at Helix
2-2023 - 8-2023
Director, Data Platform Engineering at Zillow
9-2020 - 2-2023
Senior Engineering Manager, Data Governance at Zillow
2-2018 - 9-2020
Engineering Manager, Data Governance at Zillow
11-2015 - 11-2016
Data Engineer, Data Management at Pointmarc, A Merkle Company

Education

2013 - 2015
Master of Information Management and Systems from UC Berkeley School of Information
B.S. from University of Washington

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Insights For Selling To Anna

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Share testimonials from known people and give multiple examples of product value
  • Help them realize that there is no personal risk in making this decision
  • Be prepared for a lot of questions, answer them objectively

DONT's

  • Avoid making offhand commitments
  • Don’t try to rush them into a decision, provide all necessary information first
  • Don’t be too objective but make sure to pad your storytelling with data points

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Anna is

  • Proven value, strong testimonials are important to them, relationships will have some weightage.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Anna

  • They are practical and friendly, don't expect a clear-cut response often.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Anna move?

  • They like to perform full analysis and can take time to make any decision.
  • Can Anna take some risk or not?

  • They evaluate their decisions systematically and are less likely to take risks.

You And Anna

Personality Compatibility


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