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New York, United States

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Managed 3 direct reports, including two director-level roles, on student recruitment and enrollment, compliance, and operational support tasks.
• Implemented growth plan of expansion to 4th campus location, 40% student enrollment growth during a time of decreasing citywide enrollment and creation of new facilities and IT departments.
• Pioneered and supervised an Operations Fellowship to increase capacity of our central operations support for 4 campuses of over 1,300 students K-12.

• Executed the search for and implementation of a new student information system for over 1,200 students and trained 200 staff on its use.
• Overhauled per-pupil invoice submission to increase efficiency and streamline annual budget forecasting.
• Spearheaded pandemic health & safety response including monitoring all federal, state, and local health guidance and creating COVID case monitoring & reporting structures.

• Led strategic planning process for data and operational needs across a 1,000 student, 3-campus K-12 charter school.
• Coordinated 3 school-based operational teams and 1 central office operational team to complete strategic plan objectives.
• Designed and implemented weekly data dashboards to communicate actionable student and staff data to leadership.

• Directed original quantitative analyses of district, state, and federal education finance policies and allocations.
• Executed technical assistance projects with school districts and state education agencies to analyze funding policies.
• Presented research findings at academic conferences and to policymakers, advocacy organizations, and funders.

Greater New York City Area

• Spearheaded a project to research school time use in successful New York City high schools.
• Wrote descriptive case studies to be published in a publicly released report.
• Performed quantitative data analysis to assess student academic outcomes on a range of college enrollment indicators.

Memphis, TN

• Identified and directed a third-party vendor to build a data warehouse and assessment creation tool that centralized student assessment data for Promise Academy Charter School, a school serving 450 students in.
• Orchestrated the process of transferring 5 years of historical data.
• Trained 60 staff members on its use.

• Conducted operations and data projects for 12 public charter schools serving low-income students in Brooklyn.
• Acted as a liaison with Board members, produced documents for Board meetings and managed new Board member on-boarding.
• Engineered a database to manage lottery applications for 3000 students and supervised 10 temporary employees in entering the applications and communicating with applicant families.

• Managed logistics of move in of 30 staff members and 90 students to new building for startup charter school.
• Established and oversaw daily building operations and maintenance.
• Created student leadership and incentives programs.

Master Of Public Administration (Mpa), Policy

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English And French, Double Major