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Supporting the Executive Director of the RILDS Center, RILDS data governance, and data cleaning assistance to the RILDS engineering team.

Providing transition support to Director, administrative and data governance support for the RI Statewide Longitudinal Data System (RILDS), and data cleaning assistance to the engineering team.

Managed operations and decision-making for DataSpark, a program unit within The University of Rhode Island Libraries with a mission to connect data and people to inform, empower and inspire innovative decision-making. Leveraged the speed and interactivity of new technologies to make data more accessible and promote the use of data for decision making and research.

Managed operations of DataSpark. Provided leadership on data product dissemination, internal administrative responsibilities, and project strategy and development. Supported the Interim Executive Director and board of directors to facilitate successful transition to new organizational entity. Provided vision, strategic support, grant writing, continuity, and relationship development to continue with existing portfolio of work and establish new relationships and partnerships once established at The University of Rhode Island.

Managed workload for analytical projects and contracts. Maintained extensive knowledge on the datasets housed within the statewide longitudinal data system (SLDS), with content ranging from education to healthcare to workforce. Supervised and trained staff to query and link large, individual-level datasets in a longitudinal, cross-sector database to answer policy questions and inform stakeholders.

Worked collaboratively with internal and external teams to create data visualizations, dashboards, and reports to extract insights including leading teams of colleagues, interns, consultants, and external parties.

Transformed, prepared and presented data to inform policy and research using quantitative and analytical skills. Extensive experience processing, formatting and organizing large datasets.