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About
Alexis Poyourow is a data analyst, freelance musician, former music educator, and audio engineer in the greater Southern California area. She is an alumni from California State University, Long Beach with her Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance and Music Education. In January 2020, Alexis obtained her Single Subject Teaching Credential in K-12 Music from the credential program at her alma mater.
Data Analytics
In July 2023, Alexis earned the Google Data Analytics Certificate, where she learned how to utilize spreadsheets to collect, aggregate, and analyze data. She also gained fluency in SQL and R, while learning data visualization techniques through Tableau Public and spreadsheets. After gaining these valuable data analytics skills, she completed a personal project in which she conducted a case study highlighting traffic data during her work commutes in the 2021-2022 school year.
In July 2024, Alexis earned the Google Advanced Data Analytics Certificate. This course taught her various data science methods, including exploratory data analysis (EDA), statistical data analysis, regression analysis, predictive modeling, and machine learning. During this course, she gained fluency in Python while using Jupyter Notebooks. The libraries she explored included Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Statsmodels, Scikit-Learn, XGBoost, and Pickle. At the end of this course, she worked on a personal project where she conducted an employee retention analysis.
Performance
Alexis has performed in symphonies, wind ensembles, new music ensembles, chamber music groups, composer recitals, and solo recitals. She has had the pleasure of performing in The Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Long Beach Performing Arts Center, The Carpenter Performing Arts Center, and Thayer Hall of the Colburn School.
Teaching
Alexis is a Single Subject Credentialed music teacher for grades K-12. During her time as a music educator, she has worked with a variety of school districts providing music education to many students. Alexis coached bass sections in Long Beach Unified School District, East Whittier City School District, and Los Alamitos Unified School District working with middle school and high school instrumental music students. From August 2018 to June 2020, Alexis worked with Harmony Project in Long Beach Unified School District as a Teaching Assistant. In August 2020 to June 2021, she was promoted to co-music teacher within Harmony Project. In the Fall 2019 school semester, she was a student teacher in Long Beach Unified School District teaching elementary general music at Carver, John Muir, Emerson, and Oropeza elementary school as well as teaching middle school instrumental music at Franklin Classical Middle School. In the years of 2021-2023, Alexis was an elementary music teacher for Santa Ana Unified School district where she taught TK-8 general and instrumental music. She was specifically assigned to Heninger Elementary School, Santiago K-8, and Esqueda K-8. On top of teaching in classroom music environments, Alexis teaches private bass lessons to students who are interested in individual, one-on-one lessons. She has taught students ranging in ages from older elementary to retirees in private lesson settings.
Audio
During her time in music school, Alexis discovered her love for audio. Her audio journey began when she was a technician for the Daniel Recital Hall at California State University, Long Beach. In that position, she gained the experience of working with musicians in various musical genres, learning basic live sound audio techniques, stage setup, supporting shows as a lighting engineer, and taking shifts that involved routine maintenance in the recital hall. After four years of working for the recital hall, she wanted to learn more about sound and landed her first solo live sound gig with Living Beyond Limits- Center for Spiritual Living. In this job, she ran live audio for church services every Sunday morning. Responsibilities for this position included running sound for all Sunday services – sermons, readings, and music worship. In addition, she ran live sound for special events and concerts. Alexis is currently working from her home recording studio on several music production projects.
Current
Alexis’ passion and experience in performing, teaching, audio, and data analysis have allowed her to become a freelance agent in the greater Southern California area. For more information on her current gigs and projects, please visit the contact page. Thank you!