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Professional Summary

Business analyst and Six Sigma Black Belt with 14 years of U.S. Army leadership and a decade in FDA/ISO-regulated manufacturing. Brings structured, evidence-based problem-solving to government and veterans services environments: process improvement using DMAIC and root-cause analysis, workforce and retention models built in Python and SQL, and KPI dashboards sourced entirely from auditable public federal data. Portfolio of shipped analytics tools covering 472 public companies and all 3,222 U.S. counties, each with documented methodology and automated quality gates. Founder of a disabled veteran-owned LLC. Completing an MBA and a second bachelor’s in business at Manchester University.

Skills

Process Improvement: Six Sigma Black Belt, DMAIC, root-cause analysis, after-action review, SOP development and document control, Lean.

Compliance & Quality: FDA and ISO 13485-regulated operations, internal audit, quality checks, safety program management, data provenance and verification.

Data & Analytics: Python (pandas, scikit-learn), SQL, Excel, logistic regression, ROC/AUC, KPI design, data visualization and dashboards, public federal data (BLS, Census/ACS, SEC EDGAR, BEA, O*NET).

Leadership: Cross-functional team leadership, training and development, resource and inventory management, decision-making under pressure, stakeholder communication.

Projects

Public Company Accountability Index

2026
  • Scored 472 public companies on capital allocation, M&A quality, workforce stewardship, and executive compensation using 14 metrics built exclusively from SEC filings (10-K, proxy, Form 4).
  • Implemented 497 automated checks and 106 hash-chained build-log checkpoints; independent audit re-derived every score before release and caught a labeling defect that shifted 396 of 472 rankings.

Veteran Livability Index

2026
  • Built a county-level decision tool covering all 3,222 U.S. counties from five federal sources (Census ACS, BEA RPP, BLS, VA), with six metric overlays, a Regional Price Parity calculator, and labeled data inheritance wherever federal data does not publish at county grain.

Veteran Workforce Pulse

2026
  • Built a live dashboard of veteran vs. non-veteran unemployment computed directly from the BLS public API, date-stamped and sourced to series IDs; displays an explicit data gap for unpublished months rather than interpolated values.

True Cost Basket Index and Shelter Index

2026
  • Constructed weekly household-cost indexes across 50 states, 3,142 counties, and 33,791 ZIP codes from EIA, BLS, USDA, DOL, Census, and NAIC data; each value carries a provenance flag (live, proxy, state-flat, county-level) with downloadable audit workbooks.

Workforce Stability and Veterans Case Study

  • Developed a logistic-regression retention model with ROC analysis and business recommendations; companion Veteran Employment Gap analysis drawn from BLS and ACS labor-market data.

Kiln and Ember

  • Designed and built two plain-language programming environments used to ship the tools above, with a release discipline of automated gates, adversarial audit, and byte-for-byte compatibility tests.

Full portfolio with methodology and downloads: patrickneilbradley.com/analytics.html

Experience

Founder — Legends’ Return Foundation LLC

2025 – Present

North Manchester, IN · disabled veteran-owned LLC

  • Founded and operate the company end to end: entity formation, compliance, budgeting, strategy, and public communications.
  • Developed the business plan through the SBA Boots to Business program and Mississippi State University’s Revenue Readiness course (2025).
  • Designing the Veterans Integration Campus model and The Spartan Table program; authored grant-ready program briefs and research packets for partner review.

Packaging Operator — Zimmer Biomet

Jun 2022 – Jan 2026

Warsaw, IN · FDA & ISO 13485-regulated medical device manufacturing

  • Executed packaging operations to FDA and ISO 13485 quality standards, performing in-line quality checks and supporting internal audits.
  • Supported Lean and continuous-improvement initiatives that streamlined packaging workflows and reduced material waste.
  • Partnered with cross-functional production teams to meet daily output targets while maintaining compliance and documentation integrity.

Setup Technician — Keter North America

May 2016 – Apr 2021

Anderson, IN · plastic injection molding manufacturing

  • Set up molds and tuned machine parameters to maximize throughput and minimize downtime across production runs.
  • Served on the plant safety committee; trained team members on equipment operation, troubleshooting, and safety protocols.

Platoon Sergeant (NCO) — U.S. Army

Dec 2001 – Feb 2016

11C Indirect Fire Infantry · post-9/11, multiple deployments

  • Led, trained, and developed a 30-person team, directly raising operational readiness and unit effectiveness.
  • Built a tracking database that replaced manual records and improved equipment accountability and performance monitoring.
  • Authored and deployed SOPs that measurably increased unit performance; designed a certification and training program that exceeded standard requirements.
  • Maintained accountability for $500,000+ in equipment across multiple deployments; directed logistics and resource management in field and garrison operations.
  • Served as unit Safety Officer and Resilience Officer, deploying both programs across the organization.

Research & Publications

Occupational health field study — Lead author of a 466-day continuous wearable-biometric field study of veteran workforce stability in a manufacturing setting. Preprints posted to SSRN, Zenodo, PsyArXiv, and figshare (2026); prepared for peer review.

Veterans in the Workforce — Author of a six-book nonfiction series on veteran hiring, supervision, and workplace compliance for managers and HR. In development.

Leadership Frameworks series — Published working guides with templates and worked examples for project charters, risk registers, after-action reviews, and DMAIC cycles.

Education

MBA and B.S., Business Administration and Management — in progress; expected B.S. 2027, MBA 2028 Manchester University · North Manchester, IN
Bachelor of Science, History Manchester University · North Manchester, IN
Associate of Science, Business Administration Ivy Tech Community College · Anderson, IN

Certifications

  • Six Sigma Black Belt (earned in the U.S. Army)
  • Boots to Business — U.S. Small Business Administration, certificate of completion (2025)
  • Boots to Business: Revenue Readiness — Mississippi State University, certificate of completion (2025)
  • Manchester University Certificate of Innovation