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Monitored corrective action activities in the role of the corrective action manager in support of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Safety Oversight actions of the Metrorail System. Reviewed WMATA’s safety directives and the associated corrective action plans (CAPs), to assist with audit verification of WMATA’s materials. Verified.

• Provide analyst support to the Resource Management Division, Program Analysis and Evaluation Branch within the Warrior Transition Command. Assigned to perform data analysis of budget expenditure, development of tools.
• Researched and developed a performance based assessment project modeled from Performance Based Budgeting (PBB) principles to assess Command’s programs effective and efficient execution of funds to determine the.
• Developed the Event Budget Management Tracker (EBMT) cost estimate tool, to capture cost estimates for group travel and to identify areas to reduce cost. Leverage Command policies and government travel websites.
• Created a financial tracker tool and dashboard for Command’s programs to identify financial trends and cost projection against the programs and Command’s spend plan budget. Tool provides a report to assist the Command.
• Created a key performance indicator (KPI) dashboard for the branches within the Resource Management Division (RMD) to track and report the execution of key performance areas within the branches. KPIs are shared with.

Walter Reed Army Medical Center

• Provided analysis and surveillance support on the incidence and prevalence of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in the military population.Applied descriptive statistics to health surveillance data, interpreted and wrote.
• Influential in the establishment and streamlining of an internal passive surveillance operation to track and report military cohort diagnosed with TBI, evaluated and treated at the program satellite health facilities.
• Developed training and standard operations procedures materials to provide guidance on data collection process and establish case definition on cases eligible for inclusion in the surveillance program.
• Leveraged various military health data systems to conduct electronic chart review on surveillance cases to confirm eligibility.
• Knowledge of the ICD-9 codes to understand diagnostic codes used to identify and extract TBI cases from the military health systems (MHS). Instrumental in the development of a case definition matrix used to extract and.
• Coordinated data use agreements with medical data repository entities (Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center) AFHSC, (Executive Decision Support) EDS, (Defense Manpower Data Center) DMDC and (Decision Support.

• Supported the research team at the Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Military Psychiatry branch. Traveled to various military installations to conduct assessments and provide resilience trainings to.
• Participated in field studies with the Land Combat Study team to conduct pre and post health assessments on units with prolong deployments.
• Conducted resiliency training for returning troops utilizing the approved and validated Battlemind training modules.
• Active contributor to content within drafts, briefings and research papers s summarizing results from the survey assessments.
• Panel member discussing findings on resiliency factors on a sample of National Guard service members at the 2007 American Psychological Association (APA) Conference.
• Accomplished co-authoring research papers reporting on findings survey based studies on military cohorts.

• Supported longitudinal studies on military cohorts for the Department of Behavioral Biology; studies focused on examining the cognitive and performance decrements associated with prolonged wakefulness. Administered and.
• Participated in conducting research on the efficacy of stimulants used to maintain wakefulness. The most effective stimulant (caffeine gum) was included in soldiers MREs.
• Assisted in the collection of evidence based data that helped support policies and recommendations on healthy sleeping habits for soldiers in combat environments
• Obtained knowledge and experience on administering, collecting and coding data from validated cognitive tools such as the Judgment Line Orientation (JLO), Iowa Gambling Task, Tower of Hanoi, Trail Making Test, and.
• Prepared and presented outcome data into reportable results for research presentations and publications.
• Performed database management of the longitudinal database and analyzed data using

Master'S, Experimental Psychology, 3.9

Bachelor'S, Psychology, 3.8

Activities and Societies: Golden Key Honor Society, Cum Laude, Dean's list (1997-2001)

Education record