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• Lead teams of 4-10 research fellows to develop 200 qualitative codes and code over 20 focus group transcripts to understand implementation requirements and user preferences for objective behavioral health tools• Co-authored report to senior DoD leadership with recommendations for implementing objective behavioral health tools across tri-service care• Employed exploratory NLP techniques to develop a regex-based automatic coding system to classify data from 19 focus groups, saving over 300 hours of employee time• Used item response theory to assess item performance of the PCL-5 across various military populations and provided recommendations on item quality and classification accuracy• Developed custom qualitative coding software in Excel and conducted small-scale user interviews to identify coding pain points and user requirements, saving $3,500 in annual licensing costs• Developed staff trainings and wrote standard operating procedures for data cleaning, R, Excel, and qualitative coding

• Scoped research project to identify user personas for the workflow builder feature and used exploratory NLP techniques to develop a classification algorithm that identified ~80% of workflow builders belong to one of two personas• Used NLP techniques to identify the top use-cases for workflow builder by user persona and identify text posts by these users that indicated need for these features to market workflow builder to• Examined telemetry data from 100+ million users using multilevel modeling in R to identify that 35% of workflow builder behavior could be explained by team level behavior, with certain user personas being more likely to trigger workflow builder adoption teamwide• Worked with stakeholders and researchers in product, UX, and survey science, and wrote 5+ mini research reports to disseminate results across the org and contribute to ongoing research on Slack user personas

Lansing, Michigan, United States

• Contributed to developing an R package that can be used to detect patterns of careless responses in survey data and remove them to improve data quality• Developed methods for simulating data that mimics patterns of human careless responding to assess the effectiveness of statistical and machine learning approaches of careless response detection• Developed a qualitative study to provide guidance about how to prevent or detect careless responding by investigating how and why people respond carelessly to surveys• Content coded over 1,000 qualitative survey responses

San Francisco, California, United States

• Extracted, transformed, and analyzed data from 100+ million users with Databricks, MySQL, Python, and R• Created and presented weekly user behavior reports to stakeholders in marketing, business, SEO, and finance• Created automated ETL job for weekly report that reduced workload by 25%• Supported 5 teams across multiple departments with 15+ data pulls, analysis and visualization requests, and interpretation/causal inference using Excel, Amplitude, and R• Built and documented conversion and engagement funnel dashboards that track the user journey from first touch to purchase

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Assessed the classification accuracy of various careless responding metrics at detecting careless respondents on longitudinal data• Developed novel method for assessing classification accuracy of careless responding metrics on longitudinal data• Developed an online study using Qualtrics to investigate the relationship between personality, Machiavellianism, work values and how these factors can be used to make better hiring decisions• Supervised research assistants on a large-scale evidence synthesis of careless responding prevalence and methods to detect or deter this behavior on surveys• Simulated data to assess whether popular effect size conversion formulas bias statistical parameters

Lab courses: PSY 6217 Regression (2 semesters), PSY 2012 Intro to Psychology (2 semesters)Assistant courses: PSY 3213 Research Methods in Psychology (3 semesters), PPE 4003 Personality Psychology (1 semester)• Taught a one-hour regression lab to 15 graduate students for two semesters• Taught a one-hour intro to psychology lab to 30 undergraduate students for two semesters• Created course materials, learning objectives, and presentations for lab • Created and graded weekly homework assignments• Graded homework and discussion posts for 30-100 students

Tampa, Florida, United States

The Psychology Undergraduate Mentorship Program serves undergraduate students who are typically underrepresented in academia by paring them with a graduate student mentor for a six month period. Each program cycled consisted of approximately 30 undergraduate mentees and 25 graduate mentors.Specific contributions include:• Developed a recruitment survey and matching system for mentors and mentees based on common interests and needs• Developed and delivered program-wide orientation, and mentor training on culturally responsive mentorship• Developed check-in and feedback surveys for mentors and mentees• Led program development team to improve the program based on participant feedback

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

• Collected user behavior data with Google Analytics and created monthly reports that highlighted trends and opportunities for user engagement to over 20 different clients• Setup and assessed results from A/B testing on websites• Created and managed website content with Wordpress, Joomla, PHP, Java, and SQL • Conducted usability testing of websites and documented issues and bugs• Collaborated with clients and teammates in a fully remote workplace

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Learning Sciences

Master Of Arts - Ma, Industrial And Organizational Psychology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychology

Major in psychology, minor in applied statistics. Studies focused on quantitative methods, cognitive and social psychology