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• Architected and built organizational cloud data architecture for warehousing, pipelines & ETL, data retrieval for project teams and on-demand business analytics• Built and maintained dashboards and predictive models for business analytics utilizing customer-generated activity data, financial data, and public-sector datasets• Provided expert analysis on emerging topics and trends to support federal advocacy initiatives and grant-funded research• Facilitated cross-departmental collaboration on new technology implementation, addressing data quality issues, and development of tools to drive data-driven solutions• Lead business process improvement by designing and building workflow automations across finance, HR and marketing systems

Vienna, Va

• Created pipelines for launching surveys and subsequent data clean-up and analysis on a variety of customer experience surveys at a large government agency• Automated creation and distribution of monthly reports for multiple surveys to stakeholders• Performed data analysis between multiple data sources and prepare research briefs for senior government leadership

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Interim AMS Support Specialist at the American Academy of Physician Assistants• Performed data validation and cleanup, quality assurance, quantitative analysis, regression testing, and workflow automation across multiple integrated platforms• Developed SQL queries to provide data and assist Finance, Marketing, and Membership departments• Created data visualizations of team performance and company activity using Tableau and Microsoft Excel• Create performance and company activity visualizations using Tableau and Microsoft Excel• Managed help-desk ticketing system for 75 employees; Reduced ticket completion time by 30% over 4-month period

Arlington, Va

• Provided research and editorial support to the Education Development Practice Area, focusing on monitoring & evaluation projects in low and middle income countries• Assisted in report preparation and workshop materials editing for projects including: Chevron-Kenan Institute Enjoy Science! Project – Thailand, UNESCO University Readiness Test – Egypt, and USAID/E3 Evaluation Synthesis Report • Generated qualitative, quantitative and geospatial data analysis & visualizations for projects including: USAID/Pakistan Early Grade Reading Assessment, USAID/South Sudan Rapid Education Risk Analysis, and UNICEF Malawi School Construction Project Evaluation

Fairfax County, Virginia

• Tutored 9th - 12th grade student groups in Calculus, Algebra, and Geometry• Provided academic support to teachers and assisted students in college prep and work ethic improvement activities

Guinea

• Education Volunteer teaching Middle School and High School level mathematics for 7th through 10th grades• Successfully completed training and was sworn in as a Peace Corps Volunteer on September 22, 2016• Completed 92 hours of French language instruction and went from novice level to advanced-low proficiency• Completed 184 hours of teaching, cultural and medical training and 4 weeks of classroom instruction

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

• Taught a 20-student 2-credit course on policy making and strategic thinking at the United Nations Security Council• Prepared lesson materials and led simulation exercises on a weekly basis• Primary learning modules focused on: Nuclear Weapons Free Zones, International labor laws, the current Peacekeeping missions in the Central African Republic; and Global Health Systems

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

• Provided technical assistance in developing the first laboratory experiments for the Politics Department at UVa• Tested the effects of political and news media violence on human subjects through developed video treatments• Designed layout and computer architecture of the laboratory setup• Received Institutional Review Board certification from the University

Charlottesville, Va

Charlottesville, Va

• Called Alumni on behalf of different university programs to verify records, build support for university programs, and raise funds for the university

Fairfax, Va

• Developed web-based system for visualization of genetic variation data for Johns Hopkins University researchers studying the correlation between response to drugs and genetic variation in NC160 cancer cell lines• Learned and used Google Web Toolkit, Subversion, Java Development, JDBC, and Eclipse• Gained proficiency in creating and querying databases using MYSQL, data normalization, and database design

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering And History

Activities and Societies: International Relations Organization, Theta Delta Chi Fraternity, WXTJ Student Radio

Data Science Remote Bootcamp

12-week certificate program covering topics in data science and machine learning. Topics include: python programming, research design.

Education record

International Baccalaureate Diploma, Advanced Studies Diploma

Activities and Societies: Model United Nations, Track and Field, Orchestra, Social Studies Honor Society, National Honor Society