Compute company's education rankings, including college, post-graduate and high school.Lead analyst for annual rankings of four-year undergraduate institutions. Helped create successful new ranking of e-learning programs with six consecutive years growth. Research trends in higher education, survey design, sampling, ranking methodology, quality assurance of data, statistical analysis (regressions, z-scores, detecting outliers), database queries, communicating technical findings to non-technical digital media audiences. Represent company at higher education conferences. Explain to schools in writing their movement in rankings. Help determine which data are displayed on website and how they are displayed based on subject expertise.Provide guidance to and review work of junior analysts; data collectors, staff writers. Build data testing protocols. Write thorough documentation.

Assisted senior analysts; U.S. News staff with design, execution and display of education rankings.

Evaluated DOS educational exchange programs based on qualitative and quantitative data.Designed survey instruments; focus group scripts. Summarized most important findings in reports.