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Springfield, Illinois, United States

• Serve as quality control for statewide labor market information, including monthly press releases
• Liaise with local workforce development leaders to quantify labor market participants based on observable metrics
• Consult with workforce professionals on best practices for gathering and using local labor market information
• As assigned, gather data from internal and external sources for publication on the IDES LMI page
• Establish work processes for department-wide projects, and demonstrate ownership of project results

Columbus, Ohio, United States

• Assure proper handling and delivery of cargo and properly document cargo and mail transactions, each in compliance with airline policy
• Support operations at GAT facility and CMH terminal as necessary to facilitate effective operation and high levels of customer service

Columbus, Ohio

• Conduct fiscal analyses of tax legislation
• Produce accurate forecasts for tax and nontax revenue streams under upper management oversight
• Provide oversight for the biennial budgeting process of assigned state agencies
• Assist the Legislative Budget Office in a cross-functional role using both hard and soft skills
• Contribute to production of bill drafts, budget documents, and other agency-wide publications
• Provide fiscal research support at the request of General Assembly members; ensure effective communication between the Commission and Legislative staff

• Perform market analysis on local and state construction industries
• Clean datasets to ensure consistency, then identify and interpret trends or patterns in data and metrics
• Author proposals for research projects intended to identify opportunity, generate value, or improve decision-making abilities of clients
• Compile and generate various graphs and charts using Stata, R, and Excel which accurately depict data trends
• Develop new metrics useful to the company’s goal of understanding its market and competition

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Update CRM database to ensure information consistency
• Serve as part of cross-functional team

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Update company databases from 100+ online and print information sources and performed analysis to identify trends using Excel and SAS
• Collaborate with teams in other divisions to gather expert insight for accurate industry projects and ad-hoc analyses used in market research studies
• Project supply, demand, and inflation rates for products and labor in all industries for 5- and 10-year periods in accordance with historical data and recent industry developments
• Ensure internal data consistency and integrity for quarterly economic composite releases and corrected likely errors in data entry using smoothing techniques
• Create new Excel models to estimate industry-wide output, and updated existing models to reflect new trends and information

Morgantown, WV

• Assisted with any operations-related work and performed other maintenance tasks as needed

Clemson, SC

• Taught undergraduate courses in microeconomics and macroeconomics
• Assisted professors with research projects by providing data entry and database management for complex file structures, resulting in their publication in academic journals
• Led recitation sections for large classes
• Provided career guidance and coached students to begin successfully navigating the job market

Morgantown, WV

• Quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed data compiled from multiple sources using Excel and Emacs
• Analyzed and wrote briefings on regulatory policy and taxation issues
• Created tables and graphics to support primary investigator

Morgantown, WV

• Analyzed income and expenditure patterns
• Managed accounts payable and accounts receivable
• Filed taxes
• Provided other assistance as needed

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics

Fields in labor and regulation economics.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Economics

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Economics