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Washington, Dc, Us

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Craft speeches that simplify complicated information and distill complex economic data through storytelling for the CFPB Director and Deputy Director. Write consumer financial talking and messaging points for the White House, and, in one instance, was invited to White House event on junk fees due to success of messaging campaign.Advise Director and Deputy Director on speaking engagements, and am adept at balancing outside stakeholder goals with CFPB goals. Write director-level blogs, statements, and press releases for announcements, and am considered an expert in plain language writing and slashing jargon.Develop taglines, messaging themes, and director news quotes with the goals of consistent messaging, easy reading, and getting media buy-in.Balance 3-5 writing projects at any given time, as well as take on emergency writing assignments with timelines less than 3 hours.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Work in the Office of Analytics, Review, and Oversight; Office of Quality Review; Division of Disability Quality; Reports and Analysis Branch. Lead workload projections and forecasting projections for the Title II and Title XVI pre-effectuation reviews (PER) and advise management how prepare for the expected workloads.Project manager for national level studies. Most recently, led studies to determine reviewer agreement with OQR's medical consultant referral policy and to determine the reasons for administrative law judge postponements of disability appeal cases.Act as a field site liaison. As a field site liaison, act as the field site's contact person when it has questions related to policy or production as well as conduct deep data dives and analyses to provide the field site with updates on quality and production.Prepare detailed written analyses, briefing papers, and reports to respond to special requests and inquiries at the behest of the division director or the associate commissioner. These relate to multiple topics, including statistics, sampling methods, overtime and workloads, and telework.Co-lead a project to centralize and display OQR's management information. Standardized the PER workload projections process and wrote standard operating procedures for workload projections and created a statistical model, using multivariate analysis, to predict the remaining number of disability decisions for the fiscal year.Developed technical standards and best practices for study design in OQR.Acted as research lead, technical advisor, and advisor to an executive leading a project to streamline OQR's mandatory reviews. Led meetings on behalf of the executive, led the report writing and documentation efforts as well as managed the project's SharePoint site.Conducted an agency wide investigation to determine all natural language processing (NLP) projects currently in the pipeline to determine if any agency efforts could be used to support OQR.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Developed talking points for executives in areas related to employee relations, statistical analyses, and budgetary issues.Developed and conducted statistical analyses in the areas of budget, quality review, and adjudication. Complemented analyses with qualitative research. Worked with components to determine how to improve processes based on results of analyses and research.Developed Excel based tools to assist in the quality review and budgetary processes. Tools are meant to facilitate quality and budget exercises as well as to identify shortcomings in the business and execution processes of both areas.Developed standard operating procedures (SOPs) related to quality review and budget. Analyzed business processes, conduct interviews, and observe staff members in order to enhance SOPs.Interacted with congressional staffers to ensure any issues encountered by Social Security claimants are identified and mitigated.Reviewed reports to ensure cogency and correct grammar usage.

Atlanta, Ga

Analyzed news reports from Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, and Peru and wrote weekly news updates related to narcotics, terrorism, and threats to democratic institutions. The updates were included in a weekly newsletter presented to President and Mrs. Carter.Analyzed, synthesized, and reported on webcasts, legislation, and other reports of significance to The Carter Center. Presented findings to the associate director of the Americas Program. Generally, the webcasts, legislation, and other reports were in Spanish.Researched methods to successfully address and negate narcotics trafficking in Central and South America. In addition, studied the history and evolution of the illicit drug trade in Latin America and in the U.S.Prepared briefing booklets for the Directors of the Americas Program when they traveled to the 43rd General Assembly of the Organization of American States. Preparing the briefing booklets involved researching the event, determining what types of resources would be necessary, finding the resources, preparing analyses of current and significant events, and coordinating with other staff members.Researched the histories of Latin American leaders who asked to meet with President Carter, when those leaders had been accused of human rights abuses. Analyzed the evidence and reported to the Director of the Americas Program on the strength of the evidence and on the likelihood of the truthfulness of the accusations.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Translated documents from Spanish to English and from English to Spanish. Document descriptions varied, but included annual reports, field manuals, and official Inter-American Defense Board (IADB) responses to questions from member-state representatives. One of the documents translated was Inter-American Defense Board’s Humanitarian De-Mining Manual, which became the humanitarian de-mining manual for the United Nations.The IADB needed to convince member-states of the importance of its conferences and symposiums. To address those concerns, created an Impact Evaluation Plan. The Impact Evaluation Plan set-up methods to determine learning outcomes and provided methods to measure whether the learning outcomes were met and, if so, then to what extent.

Apache Junction, Az

Joined the staff as a Teach for America corps member.Headed the Middle School English Department. Developed curricula, including unit plans and daily lesson plans, for seventh, eighth, and ninth grade English. Taught six English classes (two per grade) each day.As Academy Leader, assisted other teachers with lesson and unit planning as well as observed teachers during their classes and offered constructive criticism. As Academy Leader, acted as a go-between for the faculty and the administration. Attempted to explain the needs and wants of both sides, while remaining neutral.Gathered and collected student test data. Analyzed student data in a Microsoft Excel tool. Analysis enabled finding individual and class-wide learning gaps. Determined actions to fill-in gaps.Developed and coached the school’s first middle school mock trial team. In addition, founded and advised the school’s Honor Committee in the development of the Imagine Prep Honor Code.

Master'S Degree, Public Policy

Ba, International/Global Studies

Bachelor'S Degree, International/Global Studies