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Washington, DC, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• The Bureau for Inclusive Growth, Partnerships, and Innovation leads experimental and innovative efforts for programming and agency change.
• Solve challenges around international development, program design and evaluation, and innovative technologies.
• Direct ex-post impact evaluation on Digital Ecosystem Country Assessments and the Gender Digital Divide initiatives to understand program effects using spatially explicit, randomized evaluations.
• Lead author on agency wide digital policy learning section and member of the Digital Policy Secretariat charged with guiding writing, community consultation, and clearance for a ten-year policy completed in under 7.
• Lead author on Digital Policy Implementation Plan and co-author on ADS 201 revisions.
• Innovate for evaluation and strategy including overseeing machine learning and artificial intelligence analyses.

Worcester, Massachusetts, US

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a STEM higher education university. I collaborate on the creation of funding initiatives and creating a graduate program in engineering for international development.
• Proposed and received approval for the creation of a new graduate program in Development Engineering
• Built relationships between international non-governmental organizations, governments, and academia to advance academic programs in engineering for development and to provide internship opportunities for undergraduate.

Washington, DC, US

• The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs leads U.S. Middle East and North Africa foreign policy through assistance, diplomatic efforts, and outreach to advance the interests and security of the American people.
• Provide guidance for the monitoring, evaluation, and learning of the Syria and bilateral foreign assistance portfolio
• Manage and support NEA’s online Performance Reporting System
• Conduct five annual evaluations and three internal reviews of foreign assistance programs
• Build capacity on monitoring and evaluation and social science best practices

Arlington, Virginia, US

• The Foreign Service Institute is the primary training facility for U.S. Foreign Affairs professionals. I create strategic plans, improve evaluation techniques, and develop a culture of evaluation.
• Conducted needs assessment interviews and analysis to provide data for a new course mandated by the Secretary of State resulting in course content recommendations
• Created strategic planning templates and process mapping with six programs to comply with Bureau of Budget and Planning requirements
• Shepherded external consultants contracted to create innovative training evaluation program resulting in technical report and changed evaluation methods
• Invigorated the Evaluation Community of Practice through innovative programming—doubling participation and recruiting new audiences
• Specified and wrote guidelines for evaluation management system and other technology and provide input on call for proposals

Washington, DC, US

• The CDMRP are funded by Congress to fund militarily related medical research. At CDMRP I undertook an evaluation needs assessment, trained data analysts, and developed strategic planning materials.
• Conducted a needs assessment of 31 medical grant programs to outline evaluation components, leading to expedited evaluation
• Demonstrated workloads of different program managers which led to reassignment of analysts in heavily burdened areas
• Trained Scientific Program Managers in strategic planning and facilitated planning process per external advisory committees and military leadership
• Developed formal and informal training sessions that empowered staff to carry out evaluations and build a culture of evaluation

Alexandria, VA, US

• The NSF-SBIR funds cutting edge scientific research that is headed toward the commercial market. It is non-dilutive and non-equity, providing small businesses with critical start-up funds. As a Science and Technology.
• Envisioned and executed cross-cutting evaluation rubric for all 70 programs in the Engineering Directorate allowing comparison of diverse programs; subsequently adopted across the agency
• Analyzed broadening participation program and demonstrated that interventions in HBCU and HACU increased diversity of applicants
• Explored methods to demonstrate economic impact of SBIR program using commercial intelligence services that showed funding and other data
• Conducted needs assessment/customer discovery for impact assessment activities leading to assessment plans
• Expanded range of fundable companies and increased deal flow for NSF SBIR.

Worcester, Massachusetts, US

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a STEM higher education university dedicated to training well rounded scientists and engineers. I was hired to teach courses, run the Office of Sustainability, and raise funds.
• Taught monitoring, evaluation, and learning; applied research design, budgeting, customer discovery, and field methods
• Prepared 14 students for applied off-campus research in New Mexico and Switzerland
• Trained and supervised two student workers in the Office of Sustainability
• Publicized and socialized Sustainability Office through high-profile campus events leading to doubling in hazardous waste collection
• Co-lead fundraising for collaborations that link humanities and sciences to philanthropies that earned grants totaling $125,000

Gainesville, Florida, US

• The University of Florida is a large, comprehensive university known to excel in tropical conservation and development. I was hired to publish peer-reviewed research, raise funds, and teach and advise students.
• Published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers about agriculture and development on Latin America (Mexico), Africa, and the United States that led to changes in development schemes
• Managed and led field research seasons in Latin America and Africa including budgeting, monitoring, and logistical roles
• Collaborated with commercial firms, local and national governments, non-governmental organizations, and academia to share data and workload in Namibia and in Botswana leading to more than 1,400 natural resource use.
• Earned $1.5 million in research grants from the University of Florida, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration and managed budgets using logical frameworks and.
• Impaneled as a reviewer for the NSF Geography and Regional Science Program to provide funding recommendations to more than 90 grants with over $500,000 in awards

Tempe, AZ, US

• Arizona State University is large, comprehensive, and innovative higher education institute. I was hired at ASU to drive cross-cutting research, raise funds, and train graduate and undergraduate students.
• Led research that detailed how increased deforestation rates due to agricultural policies and practices, driving policy change in Southeastern Mexico
• Supervised three PhD students and four Master’s students to successful defenses of their dissertations and theses
• Published more than 10 peer-reviewed articles on land change issues in Latin America
• Identified and won $225,000 in funding from the Environmental Protection Agency to document industrial hazard issues in the US-Mexican Border Region
• Built four new crosscutting programs: the Schools of Sustainability, Global Studies, Geographical and Urban Studies, and the North American Center for Transborder Studies contributing to ASU;s rise to #1 status in.

Bloomington, Indiana, US

Worked for the LUCC Focus 1 office. Convened international scientific meetings resulting in publications, grant applications, and new collaborations.

Phd, Geography

Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Global Environmental Change, Act And Cipec

Dissertation Field Work

Ma, Latin American Studies

Ba, Latin American Studies And Spanish