Amy Short (Williams) Email & Phone Number

Responsible for leading project workstream(s) to achieve the planned scoping, planning, and delivery of tasks, understanding the requirements of a workstream, identifying any gaps, working with the clients to obtain clarity of expectations, and ensuring results are above and beyond client expectations. Serves as the project team subject matter expert for workstream(s), leads the project resources in delivery, and is proficient in most build and development tasks associated with a particular workstream, including scripting and business rule creation.

Responsible for the build, testing, validation, and support efforts through various project phases, working alongside client subject matter experts, and coordinating between teams to meet project milestones. Ensured high quality reports, workflows, and security builds were delivered to the client.

San Diego, California, United States

Data analyst for the Monitoring and Evaluation unit in all stages of program evaluation for a variety of local and global public health programs, including but not limited to survey development, data collection, and data cleaning, management, and analysis. Works with all sizes and types of datasets, including HIPAA protected data. Highly experienced with Stata, Microsoft Excel, and CommCare, and comfortable selecting the most appropriate statistical tests. Administrator of the Project Concern International Institutional Review Board.

Greater San Diego Area

Provided direct analysis support to the Monitoring and Evaluation unit in all stages of program evaluation for a variety of local and global public health programs, including but not limited to survey development, data collection, and data cleaning, management, and analysis. Used Stata to clean project data, provide demographic reports, and evaluate the results of the HRSA funded Healthy Start Program. Overlaid U.S. Census data with San Diego county public health records to identify the sub-regions with the worst health outcomes to direct local health programs. Created a data collection and analysis tool to provide immediate, on-site results for individual health facilities after the collection of monitoring data in the Every Preemie program. Created and refined the survey tool and analyzed and shared the results of a local girls’ empowerment and anti-trafficking initiative. Worked with all sizes and types of datasets, including HIPAA protected data. Administrator of the Project Concern International Institutional Review Board.

Development Assistant responsibilities along with a position as the database manager. Responsible for developing and guiding database management policies and use through the Salesforce Steering Committee and for training new users. Responsible for ongoing structural and quality database management. Contributed to implementing a formalized account management strategy, new technologies to streamline event processes, and research on effective donor engagement.

Extensive experience in Salesforce maintenance and reporting as well as donor data collection and effective management and fundraising techniques. Represented the department’s needs in task forces and committees dedicated to the advancement of the organization. Responsible for stewarding donors, including but not limited to sending tax receipt and thank you letters, appeal mailings, and event invitations.

San Diego, Ca

Responsible for assisting PODD, the New Business Development Unit, and the Monitoring and Evaluation team in all tasks. Duties included research, donor report editing, and donor database management. Researched various funding opportunities to expand the company’s reach. Assisted the M&E unit in analysing the Women Empowered programs.Temporarily stepped in to assist in the completion of a proposal for a USAID-funded Agricultural Multi-Year Assistance Program for Ethiopia. Duties included research, appendix creation, CV screening and formatting, and proposal editing, as well as letter editing and outreach to potential donors.

San Diego, Ca

Responsible for assisting the GEC in all tasks, including coordinating research and meetings, note taking at all types of meetings, and coordinating multiple girl empowerment programs in San Diego. Organized and expanded a Gender Resource Directory, acted as notetaker for GEC, and assisted in the collection of baseline data to monitor GEC Gold Standard progress. Extensive experience in all three positions in Word, Excel, and Salesforce.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Assisted in the facilitation of networking throughout all South African provinces and developing strategic approaches to concerns raised by civil society, NGOs, and community organizations. Helped coordinate training sessions for skill building workshops and coordinate campaigns, including research and media advocacy to reduce and eliminate all forms of violence against women.

San Diego, Ca

Associated Students correspondent and general news writer. Attended the most important student government body meetings and filtered out newsworthy information.Attended and wrote about events on the SDSU campus.Researched and wrote about national news stories.

San Diego, Ca

Responsible for doing in-depth research about gender related social issues in developing and third world countries. Issues ranged from health to politics to infrastructure to family dynamics. Researched causes, effects, and solutions for gender disparities. The information is in the process of being turned into an online digital education tool to inform volunteers of the social issues they will encounter while traveling abroad.

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Biostatistics & Epidemiology, 3.74 Gpa

Thesis used logistic regression to analyze existing data from a local program aimed at improving birth outcomes in low income women in San.

International Security And Conflict Resolution (Iscor), Human Rights In The Global System

Activities and Societies: ISCOR Student Society, LEAD at SDSU

Journalism