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Girls Code Savannah is an educational coding program providing FREE coding camps and classes for 5th‐9th grade girls in Savannah Chatham County Public Schools.

Menther is a digital platform specifically designed to empower and advance women globally through cross and intra-generational female mentorship matching and support.

New York, NY, US

Brooklyn, New York, US

• Joined early-stage health-tech startup launched by Google’s Sidewalk Labs focused on improving care for high-cost, high-risk populations in underserved communities
• Built data strategy roadmap focused on data ingestion, data architecture, data quality, data governance, data access, data analysis, and data products
• Built and led data science & analytics team responsible for supporting numerous functions including clinical strategy, clinical operations, product, actuary, business growth, finance, and executive leadership
• Cultivated an inclusive data science & analytics team culture and fostered team member growth
• Partnered with technology team to define scope of technology, tools, and data architecture required to enable high-performing data and analytics capabilities
• Partnered with product team to scope data requirements related to both front-end data collection and back-end data architecture

Dallas, Texas, US

• Led data-driven development of value-based health insurance products for commercial payers, self-funded employers, and third-party administrators (TPAs)
• Built and led data science and analytics team focused on developing, refining, and implementing episodes of care and bundled payment structures
• Oversaw all aspects of data pipeline including data ingestion, data quality, data standardization, data access, data analytics, and data dissemination
• Collaborated with technology and product teams to evolve data architecture, data platforms, and data products
• Collaborated with clinical team to evolve and validate episode and value-based care constructs, explore strategic applications of data findings, and identify key areas for further data inquiry
• Collaborated with business and operations teams to conduct opportunity analyses and provide data and analytics support for payer negotiations, provider contracting, and network building

New Haven, CT, US

• Led statistical development and annual reevaluation of multiple Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) risk-adjusted healthcare cost and quality outcomes measures
• Employed statistical and machine-learning methodologies to examine variations in healthcare cost and quality and to detect patterns and relationships related to healthcare system inefficiencies, improvements, and best.
• Collaborated with clinicians, providers, Technical Expert Panels (TEPs), National Quality Forum (NQF), and Yale CORE and CMS senior leadership in development and implementation of outcomes measures
• Led statistical evaluation of CMS cost measures for NQF Sociodemographic Status Trial
• Advised CMS on use of cost measures in provider incentive and alternative payment programs, including Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR), Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP), and physician Merit-Based Incentive.
• Co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, white papers, and CMS methodology reports

St Louis, Missouri, US

• Performed statistical and econometric analysis on wide variety of economic datasets
• Built predictive models to support economic research and develop economic forecasts
• Collaborated on economic research studies with topics ranging from employment and monetary policy to bankruptcy, cap and trade policy, real estate, crime, and pandemics
• Translated data-driven insights into economic reports and materials for Federal Reserve leadership
• Collected primary data regarding local and national economic conditions and perceptions
• Integrated and managed large research datasets and ensured data quality

Ashburn, VA, US

• Supported capital project evaluation for leading petroleum, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies
• Developed statistical models and analytic tools to predict and benchmark costs of capital projects
• Integrated and maintained proprietary project databases
• Assisted in on-site project data collection; Ensured data quality
• Designed and presented statistical research studies at Industry Benchmarking Conference
• Trained other staff in econometric and statistical analysis

• Assisted in economic development efforts to successfully recruit large and small businesses to the St. Louis region
• Performed economic impact analyses
• Maintained and updated database of regional economic statistics
• Managed all economic research tools and information
• Managed economic development website
• Contributed to organization's various publications of local economic data

M.A., Mathematics | 2009

M.A., Economics | 2001

B.A., English Literature | 1999

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