• Oversee all quantitative analysis, text analytics, and data visualization for client projects, provide focus group strategies, and take the lead in drafting final reports; servicing clients across industries and geographic locations (Africa, Asia, South America).• Conducted literature review, contributed to the theoretical development, statistically validated and co-wrote the standard operating procedures for a proprietary employee wellbeing research tool.

• Develop agency evaluation policy and evaluation agenda that support federal requirements and leadingpractices in building and using high-quality evidence to inform policies and decisions.• Design, review and conduct complex studies to monitor program trends and evaluate agency functions and organizations, providing the leadership with critical understandings about how the agency is meeting its strategic goals and objectives.• Apply quantitative and qualitative approaches including natural language processing and machine learning algorithms to inform evidence-based decisions, communicating results verbally and in both short and long form writing for varied audiences.• Manage all phases of evaluation and research studies from identifying data requirements, conducting statistical analysis, to developing comparative studies to ascertain efficiency level, service quality, compliance, and most efficient and cost effective ways of enhancing program performance.

• Led a research team through Gartner’s research process including hypothesis generation, data collection through interviews and surveys, and root cause analysis to identify best-in-class solutions to business challenges.• Conducted extensive literature reviews to contextualize the current knowledge and methodologies of a topic, provide critical evaluations, and draw evidence-based inferences using multiple sources including internal research, journal databases, internet sources and third-party data.• Contextualized and presented data with compelling graphics to senior managers and member companies and for use in white papers, member webinars and highly visible research studies.• Advised senior management, team leaders and project managers on a variety of statistical projects including evaluating designs and statistical methodologies, developing data collection methods and conducting complex analyses.

Conveyed data through compelling visualizations and developed a narrative surrounding the limitations and improvement areas for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program evaluation report commissioned by the Mississippi Department of Education.

• Conducted research on morality, trust, power, status, race, gender, cross-national differences, and workforce development, focusing on beliefs, public attitudes, and behavioral interventions.• Trained in interdisciplinary tools and research methods, ranging from qualitative assessments (literature review, oral interview) to quantitative techniques (multilevel modeling, linear regression, logistic regression, multivariate regression, factor analysis, mediation analysis, and content analysis).• Designed, implemented, analyzed, and presented findings from 10+ collaborative and independent research projects utilizing primary data collected online and in the field as well as secondary data from large-scale surveys.• Instructor of a statistical computing for Stata course; Teaching assistant to both graduate- and undergraduate-level courses including statistics, introduction to sociology, and gender stratification in the labor market.• Relationship builder with skillful communication, evidenced by course evaluations where over 80% of enrolled students see me as an effective and respectful instructor.

• Innovator with strong problem-solving abilities as demonstrated by improving training programs and coordinating several laboratory studies per semester.• Strong leadership and organizational skills, resulting in the development and execution of 10+ faculty-student original research collaborations.• Led successful fundraisers to support 5+ undergraduate student research projects.

• Drafted multiple sections of an annual report, including data visualization and analysis, evaluating EEO complaint-handling policies surrounding complaint investigation and compensation.• As part of a collaborative, interdisciplinary team, authored accessible literature reviews on a fatherhood pay gap special report comparing federal and private sector employment to both increase public understanding about wage discrimination and build support for policy change.