Voice360 is a non-governmental organization focused on elevating the voices of conflict, disaster, or crisis-affected populations. Voice360 operates in Afghanistan, Ukraine and uses a hybrid media and policy advocacy model to achieve its organizational goals.

District Media, Inc. is a web publishing business providing high-quality personal finance content for the general public. Since 2010 District Media has grown its revenue by 700%, staff by 300% and expanded its reach to 15 platforms in the United States.

ABS Consulting is a management and technical services integrator providing consulting, risk management and technical assistance for clients in the public and private sector.• Supported and performed analysis tasks for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)’s Transportation Sector Security Risk Assessment (TSSRA). Used MS Excel, SPSS and XL-STAT to design, maintain and update project data management systems. • Developed creative, technically sound solutions to problems in transportation sector vulnerability estimates, resulting in repeatable, transparent results. Engaged in continual problem solving to meet project standards.• Drafted analysis and technical reports resulting in timely internal project deliverables and increased client responsiveness. • Researched and calculated a wide variety of quantitative analytic procedures to maintain project data quality.• Assisted with recruitment, human resources and business development activities to meet project and corporate goals.

The Human Terrain System is a U.S. Department of Defense program providing sociocultural research to deployed combat units. • Collected quantitative and qualitative data using a combination of ethnographic, publicly available information and classified sources to meet host unit information demands. • Advised military personnel and other stakeholders on media strategy and information operation campaigns to improve brigade strategic messaging. • Developed team standard operating procedures for official requests for information, data processing, compilation, and report dissemination; handled team requests for assistance from Subject Matter Experts and in-theater resources.• Analyzed numerous topical issues including crime, insurgency, governance, development and security in Central Asia to inform theater commanders.

Glevum Associates is a small contractor focused on indigenous population research, project monitoring and evaluation for development, diplomatic and military clients operating in fragile nations.• Deployed to Kabul Afghanistan in support of Department of Defense research initiatives.• Designed over 65 survey questionnaires and analysis plans to meet a wide variety of client research questions. • Directed small teams of Afghans, expatriates and sub-contractors in survey design, oversight and reporting tasks to maintain overall project quality. • Successfully solved complicated statistical issues pertaining to survey estimates, improved accuracy of error estimates by up to 300%. • Performed both qualitative and quantitative analysis on Afghan sociocultural issues under tight deadline constraints. Processed over 42,000 interviews and produced over 110 major reports while deployed.

The START Center is an academic research center focused on understanding terrorism and counterterrorism. • Lead small teams of undergraduates in all aspects of management of large datasets of terrorist attacks; including collection, cleaning, reporting and presentations of analyses. Increased size of data by 20%. • Used SAS and MS Excel to automate cleaning procedures of large databases, reduced code processing time by over 20% by rewriting and improving cleaning syntax. • Coordinated and assisted in training of undergraduate data entry clerks to standardize training and ensure consistency.• Performed advanced statistical modeling using SAS, including factor analysis, ordered and multinomial logistic regressions & fixed effects models, resulting in several published papers and presentations.

NORC is survey research and opinion polling research firm focused on sociological, demographic, and health science analysis for federal and state government clients. • Contributed to numerous academic papers, conference presentations and reports, resulting in a 2005 corporate award for statistical research accomplishments. • Used SAS, SPSS, and STATA to process over 100,000 cases of data across scores of projects. • Designed and tested dozens of surveys and questionnaires for federal clients, which improved overall project quality. • Published over 25 single or jointly authored articles, book chapters, or reports on the topics of crime, substance abuse, narcotics policy and social factors driving drug use trends.• Successfully developed relationships with Washington DC local & federal policing agencies, community actors and key informants to locate hard to find information on drug abuse, to enhance comprehensive and timely submission of contract deliverables. • Statistical work involved preparing general linear models, hierarchical linear models, logistic and OLS regression models for publication in peer reviewed journals.