Nata Barnard, M.B.A.
Senior Data Analyst
Nata Barnard is an Oracle Certified Professional Database Administrator and Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate with more than 15 years of experience as a database developer and analyst. As a member of HZA’s privatized Quality Assurance Unit in Arkansas, she performs data analyses of case management data to assess case practices in Arkansas and their impact in achieving positive outcomes for children and families. She also is part of the team responsible for producing periodic and ad hoc management reports for the Division’s leadership and legislative consumption.
Prior to joining HZA, Ms. Barnard worked as a Database Architect at Northrop Grumman where she gathered and analyzed database requirements for the Arkansas Department of Human Services, created and updated multi-dimensional cubes to satisfy client data needs, and served as a liaison between the client and in-house support groups. Preceding her time at Northrop Grumman, she served as a Senior Database Programmer at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff, Arkansas where she generated SQL reports for publicly reported data collection and submission, and created a new SQL backend processing and submission file for National Stroke Registry data collection.
For nearly a decade prior to that, Ms. Barnard worked at Acxiom Corporation in Little Rock, Arkansas where she held several positions including Support Analyst, Database Developer and Systems Database Administrator. She provided clients and team members with 24/7 technical support related to Oracle anomalies, connectivity issues, UNIX processes and SQL jobs, and maintained database security and prepared monthly security reports for dissemination to clients and management. She also developed an automated process which provided weekly and monthly CPU and space usage reports to the client and the development team, and created an automated backup system to perform nightly exports of key production tables.
Ms. Barnard earned her M.B.A. in 1999 from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she had previously earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems.