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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

BWF is in its second decade as the leading decision science and analytics thought leader, committed to data-supported philanthropy and engagement. As Managing Vice President of Decision Science, I am responsible for all data science and analytics projects, trainings, and implementation in addition to leadership of analytics team members. In addition to core analytics services, I am proud to lead the innovative EngageDx team: BWF's Engagement Science Practice. EngageDx is committed to expanding the frontier of decision science by measuring engagement, and demonstrating the driving behavioral relationship with key philanthropic, engagement, and productivity outcomes. My specific areas of expertise include predictive modeling, business impact analysis, survey design and sampling methodology, analytics training, and analytics implementation.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As Predictive Analytics Subject Matter Expert for IBM, I specialize in demonstrating the impact of Business Analytics on For Profit, Non Profit, and Public Sector organizations across. North America. Specific areas of expertise include predictive modeling, business impact analysis, survey design and sampling methodology, analytics training, and analytics implementation.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Drive impact and insight for Gallup's consulting clients by delivering advanced analytics solutions• Principal focus on Human Capital, including talent selection, employee engagement, and customer engagement. • Specialized areas include: business impact analysis, research design, sampling methodology, market segmentation, and program evaluation• Select analysis techniques include: generalized linear models, cluster analysis, logistic regression, structural equation modeling, and multivariate techniques including ANOVA.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Manage all database, financial, philanthropic production reporting environments.• Oversee prospect management strategy and portfolio optimization with front-line fundraisers• Supervise strategy and segmentation for in-house Call Center solicitation.• Produce all in-house predictive modeling projects to drive optimized segmentation of major, planned and annual solicitation efforts.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Principal analyst for DonorCast predictive modeling projects• Specialize in campaign forecasting, and analytics implementation and prospect management strategies.• Oversee day-to-day project management and operations for all DonorCast engagements.• Create and implement cutting-edge analytics methodology and visualization techniques to advance knowledge discovery for our clients.• Principal developer for all DonorCast software projects.• Develop and manage all DonorCast content online.• Supervise sales and marketing activities.

• Serve as a project specialist, helping Non-Profit organizations maximize their potential through data mining and analytics.• Primary areas of expertise include: predictive modeling, constituent management, data mining, metrics for nonprofit fundraising for clients in Higher Education, Health Care, and Arts Sectors.

• Conducted research, provided analysis, and constructed reports on cost, access, and quality issues for public release and the State Legislature.• Designed and administered statewide the 2006 Minnesota Employer Health Insurance Survey. Presented preliminary results at the 2007 Minnesota Health Services Research Conference.• Designed and maintained data sets for current and future use.

• Provided research and writing support for grant proposals.• Assisted with survey design, implementation, and analysis on research that examined racial disparity in child welfare services reporting in Minnesota.

Masters Of Public Policy, Social Policy, Advanced Policy Analysis

• Masters thesis: The Financial Gap for Minnesota College Students: A Preliminary Investigation on Financial Aid and Its Effects.

Bachelors, Economics, Public Policy, Afro-American Studies

Activities and Societies: Soccer, Jazz Band, Lions Pause• Senior Paper: An Econometric Model of the Social Security Program: Crisis in 2020.

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