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Foster City, Ca, Us

Lead People Analytics organization, which is accountable for worldwide:(1) data infrastructure (e.g., data lake, data products, etc.) (2) reporting and dashboard landscape (3) people science function (e.g., advanced analytics, cross-functional listening strategy, program evaluation) (4) consulting with executive team to ensure analytics are relevant and insights are accurately understood as well as meaningfully actioned (5) data operations (e.g., data governance, data quality automation, and process excellence)

Foster City, Ca, Us

Partnered with Stanford University to develop machine learning models of retention. Models deepened understanding of turnover drivers as well as the uses and limits of predictive turnover analytics.Created custom feedback products that maximized the user experience and accommodated over 10,000 simultaneous users. Results transformed manager development and performance management across all levels. Time and dollar costs were orders of magnitude smaller than commercially-available, one-size-fits-all products. Non-HR executive feedback was also outstanding with comments like, "This is the best thing HR has delivered for the business in my 10+ years here."

Foster City, Ca, Us

Led company-wide employee survey, including organizational network analysis module, which led to company changing its Core Values and improving its approach to integrating an acquisition.Key contributor to Workday design and global implementation, including data governance and process improvements.Created a personnel assessment system from job analysis to validation to implementation with external candidates. Resulted in the company hiring the world's most successful pharmaceutical sales force that impacted millions of patients with life-threatening diseases.

Foster City, Ca, Us

Co-led the design, implementation, and management of the HR analytics platform, amassing and governing longitudinal data from all aspects of the employee, candidate, and alumni lifecycle. The final, best-in-class product we delivered to thousands of internal users included over 22,000 lines of custom code and consistently garnered praise like, "This is what I dreamed about having at my previous company."Evolved company's approach to senior leader development by observing all executive coaches, interviewing internal stakeholders, and reviewing academic literature and industry best practices. Increased consistency, quality, satisfaction, and return on investment.

Foster City, Ca, Us

Conducted the company's first comprehensive study of the employee lifecycle. Improved employee selection, rewards, development, and retention based on the findings of quantitative and qualitative research.

Co-leading a real-world study of wellbeing, effectiveness, and hybrid work of hundreds of employees in top-tier companies. In most organizations, surveys and focus groups are used to gather information from employees, but these approaches have significant limitations (e.g., time required to participate, infrequent cadence, response bias, lag between measurement & actions). Project WELL (Wellbeing, Effectiveness, Location, & Livelihood) seeks to solve these issues by discovering passive signals in wearable technology. Our ambition is to use insights from these signals to help employees achieve greater wellbeing and more of their potential.

Serve as a subject matter expert in personality, intelligence, counterproductive behavior, and meta-analysis. Also occasionally review for other journals (e.g., Journal of Personality Assessment).

Increase organizations' competitive advantage by deepening their people-knowledge and implementing empirically-supported interventions that empower stakeholders to make evidence-based decisions.I lead our analytics, assessment, employee listening and feedback, and measurement practices.

The mPerf study aims to improve the way we measure and understand individual productivity in real-time. The $13M+ field study recruited diverse participants across the US, and is funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. mPerf is leveraging mHealth sensors already in use to support positive health behaviors, like smoking cessation, and will be used to improve employee well-being and performance at work.• Provided guidance on application, design, and execution of a multi-site, longitudinal field study.• Designed materials to recruit, screen, on-board, measure, and off-board 400 participants.• Established relationships with organizations to conduct ground-breaking research with unobtrusive sensors.• Led a team of field managers who serve as the first point of contact for participants.http://mperf.md2k.org/https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/mosaic/mosaic-baa

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

Taught undergraduate-level courses with hundreds of students (e.g., Introductory Psychology and Introduction to Individual Differences).Studied industrial/organizational psychology and behavior genetics. My research focused on the differences between people, as well as the roots and implications of those differences.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Provided empirical research to improve and develop the products, methods, and services of the world's largest executive search firm. Demonstrated significant value so that a perpetual scholarship for a graduate intern was established between my university and Korn/Ferry.Conducted literature reviews (e.g., response distortion) to advise on assessment best practices and write white papers translating scientific research into practical knowledge.Interviewed stakeholders and compiled a competitive analysis to clarify our market position and inform our strategy with learning agility-related products.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Administered six-hour protocols of psychological and psycho-physiological measures to twins participating in the longitudinal USC Twin Project.Proposed and conducted a genetically-informed investigation of the links between polyunsaturated fatty acids and measures of impulsivity.

Redwood City, California, Us

Designed and employed behavior management contingencies for special needs children ranging from toddlers to 8th graders.Also learned and implemented occupational therapy techniques and ran a social pragmatics group.

Ph.D., Psychology

M.A., Psychology

B.A.S In, Psychology And Economics

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