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Washington, Dc, Us

* Defined strategy and led execution for technical customer success teams – technical pre-sales + post-sales, implementation and onboarding services, and technical support (approx 40 FTEs).* Oversaw all paid services through >200% YoY growth. * Led go-to-market development and launch for Technical Account Management and Product Training offerings.* Collaborated with product marketing and product management to develop strategic positioning for Posit’s products and open-source tools including field enablement and analyst relations.* Hands on leader to enable success and growth of strategic customer.* Led channel and implementation partner program through program redesign.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Individual contributor on the Solutions Engineering team, helping customers get more from Open Source Data Science.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

▪ Manage team of 7 data scientists with complex portfolio of projects including data ingestion and extraction, dashboarding and BI, and predictive modeling, natural language processing, and machine learning.▪ Discover opportunities for enhanced data science capabilities throughout client organizations, develop relationships with functional champions to integrate data science products into client workflow.

Supervise and analyze over 40 randomized controlled trials examining impact of voter outreach methods -- in-person contact, mail, digital ads, phone calls, and SMS -- on vote choice, volunteerism, electoral turnout, and voter registration, including modeling heterogeneous treatment effects and survey responsiveness. Design, implement, and maintain R packages to improve data diagnostics, simplify code, and call external APIs and to provide RMarkdown templates for randomization, implementation checks, weighting, and analysis.Shape team’s best practices including standards for analysis and new pipeline for handling experimental data to enhance ability of analysts to work across projects.Manage junior analysts and interns.

Independently design and execute data collection and analysis strategies on topics including use of tax-free municipal bonds, mortgage interest deduction, and renewable fuel standard.Create and edit blog posts and presentations, including data analysis and construction of complex charts and tables in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

Continued work with Social Security Disability Insurance working group as technical advisor. Drafted and presented policy options and briefing materials.

Researched, drafted, and edited briefing books, staff papers, and blog posts (approx 1-2 per week) on federal budget; defense budgeting; debt limit; and retirement policy including defined contribution accounts, defined benefit pensions, long-term care risk, and Social Security OASI and DI.Designed and presented policy options to Commissions on Retirement Security and Personal Savings and Disability Insurance Working Group based on research and meetings with numerous stakeholder groups and experts.Drafted and edited materials and participated in meetings for development purposes, including formal proposals to foundations, corporations, and individuals.Analyzed data and created complex charts and tables in Excel and Powerpoint for presentation and publication.

Led Stata programming for micro-simulation models on economic opportunity and mobility (Social Genome Model) and family formation (FamilyScape), researched econometric techniques for simulation models, and authored technical documentation.Researched, fact checked, and edited papers, policy briefs and op-eds on domestic economic inequality and opportunity, federal and state budgets, and social safety net programs.

Ma, Economics

Ba, Math/Economics (Meco)

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