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Portland, Oregon, United States

• Manage ~80 million row (95 GB) prescription drug database using computer programming and statistical software (SAS, R, Python).
• Use probabilistic and deterministic data linkage techniques and software to "join" prescription drug data on common variables with other large health-related datasets (e.g., Medicaid claims, emergency room visits.
• Coordinate external data requests for research.
• Analyze data requests, consult on study design, and provide technical direction.
• Review and coordinates execution of Data Use Agreements with researchers and management.
• Obtain, clean, and validate data for analysis. Write code and uses computer software packages to import, append, clean, link, and tabulate data from multiple databases.

Portland, Oregon, United States

• ETL data for Verified Voting election data analysis project in conjunction with Portland State University faculty.
• Locate and extract data from state election board websites and document process in READMEs that is repeatable.
• Create solutions to scrape and automate data extraction from websites and communicate to the team.
• Munge disparate data into common form that can be read and written to PostgreSQL database.
• Resolve issues with existing election data application by writing solutions in Python and committing to GitHub.

• Oversaw 8 research projects with a budget of $5 million and a staff of 11 in coordination with lab director.
• Delivered analytical insights to lab director to improve project recruitment and eligibility determination.
• Wrote annual progress reports for U.S. government agencies to earn funding of $1 million per year.

Portland, Oregon

• Performed analyses to understand fatigue in multiple sclerosis and provide actionable insights to medical teams.
• Created cross-functional collaboration across 4 departments to obtain data and deliver results.
• Collected data using validated, innovative survey design that was adopted by numerous groups.

Athens, Georgia, United States

• Analyzed effects of exercise and nutrition on fatigue, making recommendations for researchers and exercisers.
• Formed analytical questions, collected data, performed statistical analysis and interpreted results.
• Collaborated with industry partners (McCormick Science Institute, Hershey Company) in design and analysis.

• Instructor of record in over 25 exercise classes for 1,000 students.
• Helped students design exercise training programs.
• Taught laboratory tests in exercise physiology (VO2max, lactate threshold, MVC).

Ph.D., Kinesiology

Certificate, Data Analytics

Intensive bootcamp certificate program covering Python programming, R, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, API Interactions, ETL processes, SQL.

M.S., Kinesiology

Ba, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Cross Country, Track and Field, Students Helping Students