Healthcare & public-health analytics · Henrico, VA
I make population health data visible and trustworthy at scale. For five years, my team and I built Virginia's public immunization data platform — a 172-million-row warehouse feeding the live dashboards 8.7 million residents and the State Health Commissioner relied on. I owned and ran the dashboard portfolio at its heart.
This page is one continuous line. It starts where I stand today and rewinds to where it began — scroll to travel it. Every number on the way is defensible, sourced, and hoverable, because that's how I publish everything.
“Vinay's work consistently met the moment when it mattered most.”
— Christy Gray, Director, Division of Immunization, Virginia Department of Health
2026 · where the line stands
The cloud environment re-platformed at the turn of the year — the fourth migration with zero public downtime. This spring, the Childhood Vaccination Coverage portfolio launched statewide — announced by the Director of the Division of Immunization to health directors across Virginia, completing a multi-year build. And I wrote the program's complete operations book, turning a single-owner platform into a transferable organizational asset. Here is the record the rest of this page will explain — hover any number for its definition.
2025 · measles returns · the line meets its threshold
Measles came back — and VDH's own school survey, publicly reported, showed kindergarten measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) coverage below the 95% herd-immunity threshold for the first time since 2019. I built the public MMR coverage dashboard — locality drill-downs, age cohorts, an equity breakout — approved by the State Health Commissioner and, in the words of the Division Director's letter, used by health directors across the Commonwealth during the active response. The same year, Virginia replaced its statewide immunization registry — the agency-wide move off the legacy VIIS/Gainwell system onto the new STC platform — and as primary dashboard developer I kept every public view in the dashboard portfolio published and reconciled across the switch.
133 LOCALITIES · ONE DOT EACH · STYLIZED — OPEN THE DASHBOARD FOR REAL COVERAGE RATES
Design decisions on the public dashboard, stated in its own About-the-Data — each one a choice about honesty at scale:
Built the public childhood MMR coverage dashboard — by locality and age cohort, with an equity breakout — approved by the State Health Commissioner and, per the Division Director, used by health directors across the Commonwealth during the active response.
BUILT DURING A LIVE OUTBREAK · USED BY HEALTH DIRECTORS ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH
Primary validator for the move to Google Cloud — designed the reconciliation across three environments covering 6.6M+ records and issued the production go-live sign-off. The public never noticed the migration, which was the whole point.
6.6M+ RECORDS RECONCILED · BIGQUERY GO-LIVE SIGNED · 2023
A member of the public, reading the live respiratory dashboard, flagged roughly 127,000 doses they couldn't account for. I traced the figure to historical backfill — older records arriving late, not a sudden jump in activity — and that analysis became the basis for the response back to them. The published number held.
PUBLIC INQUIRY → ROOT-CAUSE ANALYSIS → ANSWER THAT HELD · see the live dashboard ↗
Virginia replaced its statewide immunization registry while nine public dashboards depended on it. I managed the cutover for every one — source comparison, data-freeze messaging, demographic-logic validation — and the public never lost a number. The new platform launched June 24, 2025.
9 LIVE DASHBOARDS · ZERO BROKEN · SOURCE-SYSTEM SWAP
Nine childhood vaccine dashboards plus the Vaccine-Preventable Outbreak Response (VIPER) tool — developed, validated and carried across the statewide registry replacement, then launched statewide in spring 2026. Click any card to open it live.
The discipline behind the line
Anyone can chart data. Publishing numbers 8.7 million people can challenge takes habits. Three of mine — live, try them.
Raw counts reward big places. Normalize by population and the real story flips. Toggle it:
COUNTS MAKE LOCALITY A LOOK BEST. RATES SHOW LOCALITY C LEADS.
Privacy isn't a checkbox. Cells small enough to identify a person never reach the public — by rule, before publication.
| Locality | Doses | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Locality A | 12,480 | 71.2% |
| Locality B | 3,096 | 68.9% |
| Locality C | * | * |
| Locality D | 7,733 | 74.6% |
* SUPPRESSED — HOVER THE CELL TO SEE WHY
89% coverage sounds high — until you mark the 95% herd-immunity line. A reference line turns a statistic into a decision.
THE TECHNIQUE BEHIND THE 2025 MEASLES RESPONSE WORK
2024 · a year of firsts
The year the portfolio grew new capabilities: a brand-new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) program with no precedent to copy, the four adolescent vaccine dashboards — human papillomavirus (HPV); tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (Tdap); meningococcal conjugate (MenACWY); and serogroup B meningococcal (MenB), and the season's combined respiratory rebuild — while the original COVID-19 dashboards were retired and archived, their history validated. Hover any card; click through to the live dashboard.
CONTRIBUTED TO THREE AMERICAN IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY ASSOCIATION (AIRA) NATIONAL PRESENTATIONS · 2024
2023 · the platform moves beneath the line
The state's vaccine data moved from on-premises servers to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As primary validator I designed the reconciliation across three environments — 6.6M+ records — and issued the production go-live sign-off. My work spans this whole stack: I authored the production ETL, co-designed and contributed code to the Google BigQuery reporting layer, and own the dashboard layer end to end. Hover any stage.
My seat: I own the dashboard layer end to end, authored the production ETL and the business rules behind every public number, co-designed and contributed code to the BigQuery reporting layer in GCP, and served as primary validator certifying the platform through four migrations.
The same year, the COVID-19 era ended as policy: the federal Public Health Emergency closed on May 11. I redesigned the public COVID-19 Summary dashboard for the post-emergency landscape — coordinated through the State Health Commissioner's office, live in August — and then built what came next: the Combined Respiratory (COVID-19 & Flu) Vaccine dashboard, live in late 2023, the successor that still runs every season.
PRESENTED AT VIRGINIA STATE GOVERNMENT TABLEAU DAY · 2023
Early 2022 · the production server fails
The on-prem dashboard server went down with the whole public portfolio on it. I executed an emergency migration of every public dashboard the same day — zero data loss, statewide access restored before the next news cycle. The rest of 2022 was the year of changing rules: second boosters, immunocompromised intervals, pediatric boosters, Novavax, bivalent — every CDC guidance change landed in the dose logic within days, each one validated before the public saw a number. When mpox arrived in July, I contributed to the response dashboards and pipeline while keeping the vaccine portfolio on its daily cadence.
March 2021 · Virginia Department of Health
The year began at Orbit Interactive, closing out the 500+-client migration — and in March I joined VDH, hired to build and maintain Virginia's public COVID-19 dashboards — six dashboards, daily delivery to the Governor's Office, a state watching every number. I stood up the pediatric (5–11) dashboard the week eligibility opened and owned the booster dose-number logic as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance kept changing under our feet. The Prep-to-SQL migration — the first of four — began here.
Six COVID-era dashboards ran on a daily cadence through the campaign — Summary, Demographics, Received & Distributed, Federal Doses and more. They served until September 2024, when they were retired and archived with their history validated, their job done.
VDH DATA WRANGLERS CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION · OFFICE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY · AUG 2021
Origins · India → Virginia
At S.S. Polymers (2015–17) I built a BI framework from nothing — 30+ reports over 3M records that supported 9% sales growth — led an Oracle Data Integrator rollout, and was promoted within ten months. Then two master's degrees in parallel (2017–2019): an M.S. in Decision Analytics at VCU and an MBA in Lean Operations. Data-mart and ETL roles at Net Logic and IQLOGG followed. And at Orbit Interactive (Sep 2020 – Mar 2021) I ran analytics at digital scale: 1,500+ live display and video campaigns, a 43% SEO/SEM traffic lift, and a legacy-to-Adverity dashboard migration that onboarded 500+ clients.
Don't take my word for it
The public portfolio, exactly as Virginians use it — on vdh.virginia.gov.
Public Virginia Department of Health pages and press releases that document the dashboards and milestones described above. These are VDH's words, not mine — they corroborate what the portfolio claims.
Letter of recommendation — from the Director, Division of Immunization, Virginia Department of Health: "I recommend Vinay without reservation for any senior analytics, data science, or analytics leadership role." Full letter available on request.
Recognized by the State Health Commissioner's office — for the MMR coverage dashboard used by health directors across the Commonwealth during the active measles outbreak response.
Named to VDH's statewide Overdose Prevention Workgroup — membership published in the Commonwealth's Opioid Impact Registry report to the Virginia General Assembly (April 2025).
National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) Innovation in Data Dissemination Award — won by VDH's COVID-19 workgroup (DIIS, CPHI & DSI) for optimizing accessibility and user experience across Virginia's public COVID-19 content; my contribution centered on the immunization dashboards within the workgroup's portfolio. Award page ↗
Data Wranglers Certificate of Appreciation — Office of Epidemiology, VDH, for developing critical data resources and improving understanding of epidemiologic data.
Certificate of Appreciation — Division of Informatics & Information Systems, for commitment and outstanding service.
Work from Virginia's immunization data program presented at AIRA national meetings — and the national AIRA Tableau User Group — across my five years at the Virginia Department of Health, with direct links to each presentation in the AIRA repository.
2026 → · the line continues
Open to senior healthcare and population-health analytics roles — Manager, Lead, or Senior Analyst — where deep tooling and healthcare-data judgment both matter.
"I recommend Vinay without reservation for any senior analytics, data science, or analytics leadership role."
— DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF IMMUNIZATION, VDH · JUNE 2026
vinaysuresh52@gmail.com · (804) 873-0836 · Henrico, VA