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New York, New York, United States

~ Conduct research to identify, select, grow, and retain talent~ Managed people researchers conducting complex and highly sensitive legal and compliance investigations on an interim basis~ Lead enterprise-wide research to transform hiring practices~ Drive enhancements to internal performance management tools~ Partner with HR, Legal, and central diversity program teams on people projects to identify and deeply understand critical people issues and execute impactful research to drive improvements~ Communicate results of statistical analyses and implications, to technical and non-technical audiences

Greater Boston Area

~ Manage the psychometric operations of the i-Ready® adaptive diagnostic of Reading and Math.~ Coordinate with content development staff to support the health and growth of the item banks.~ Deeply embed quality assurance within ongoing processes to increase efficiency and technical quality.~ Serve as a key thought leader to the Curriculum Associates’ Product Development team.~ Actively participate in the educational measurement professional community through presentations, publications, conference attendance, and other professional development activities.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

~ Led all psychometric design and analysis activities for the New York State Testing Program’s (NYSTP) Grades 3–8 English Language Arts and Mathematics tests.~ Supported the NYSTP in its transition from paper-and-pencil to online test delivery.~ Supervised a team of psychometricians and statistical analysts.~ Facilitated standard setting meetings to elicit educator judgment of performance standards.~ Provided a full range psychometric services such as test and equating design, supporting the transition from paper-and-pencil to online test delivery, calibration, scaling/linking, technical report writing. ~ Collaborated with Pearson, NYSED, and Regents Research Fund staff, as well as technical advisory committee members and other prominent stakeholders.

Iowa City, Iowa, United States

~ Provided a full range psychometric services to the New York State Testing Program’s (NYSTP’s) Grades 3–8 tests such as test and equating design, calibration, scaling/linking, technical report writing. ~ Collaborated with Pearson, NYSED, and Regents Research Fund staff, as well as technical advisory committee members and other prominent stakeholders.~ Led a team within Pearson to prepare a user’s supplement to ease the transition from MULTILOG to IRTPRO 2.1 for operational use and participated in a software comparability study.

Greater New York City Area

~ Performed predictive validity and differential prediction analyses for SAT and SAT Subject Tests, correcting for restriction of range, predictor and criterion reliability, and variability across high schools and colleges.~ Estimated complex multilevel model and propensity score methods to strengthen the validity argument for College Board programs including the SAT and the Advanced Placement program.~ Chaired various internal teams, including the Research Fellowship Award program and the Documentation and Quality Improvement Task Force.

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

~ Imported and transformed data for analysis in litigation and governmental compliance settings.~ Streamlined complex data manipulation and analysis to allow our team to function more effectively.~ Implemented quality assurance policies, through independent analysis and careful record-keeping.

Ph.D., Measurement & Evaluation

~ Dissertation: Examining the Impact of Examinee-Selected Constructed Response Items in the Context of a Hierarchical Rater Signal.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Statistics

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Economics

~ M.A. Paper: Correcting for Heteroskedastic Selection Bias for Wage Equation Estimation in Nicaragua

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Economics

Activities and Societies: Graduated magna cum laude / Eugene duPont Memorial Scholar, Full-tuition award and research stipend / Rev..