I serve on the Data Products Team within the Governance and Strategy Division within the Office of the Chief Data Officer.In my first 9 months with the Department of Education, I have:-drafted/negotiated the annual performance reporting form for $180 billion in Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds across three Acts (CARES, CRRSA, American Rescue Plan)-developed a data quality framework for the Education Stabilization Fund (ESF) annual performance report data and public facing portal (https://covid-relief-data.ed.gov)-worked with State ESF grantees to correct reporting for over $26 billion in federal aid

Develop interactive Tableau dashboards to support strategic decision-making on campuses; Work with campus clients to articulate data and analytics needs.

- Direct strategic plan and implementation of Degrees When Due, a completion and equity initiative designed to improve degree attainment among the “Some College, No Degree” population- Manage 6 million dollar budget, all interim grant reports and funder relations, and contracts and tasking of roughly 20 third-party vendors, consultants or subject matter experts- Successfully recruited 8 states and over 30 campuses to join first cohort of Degrees When Due - Lead development of online platform providing interactive workplans, toolkits, and supports for campus staff implementing reverse transfer or adult re-engagement through degree reclamation activities- Write discussion guides, meeting agendas, and materials to improve campus staff’s capacity to achieve equity goals- Draft content for promotional flyers and website, degreeswhendue.com; review press releases- Coordinate and lead webinars and live presentations to state higher education officers, campus and system leadership

Lead research division, collaborate with agency partners and stakeholders, and direct development and completion of major research products to support state education system coordination, program improvement, and student success.• Develop precise, meaningful measures of student and program success for state need-based aid programs, including College Bound Scholarship (early commitment) and Passport to College (foster youth)• Lead metrics working group and manage stakeholder relationships • Design, deploy and analyze survey of College Bound students to determine eligible students' perceived obstacles to higher education (funded by Gates Foundation)• Manage data sharing agreements, develop risk management processes for data sharing with external partners• Lead methodological approach to pipeline model (with NCHEMS)• Manage contractors • Create return on investment model for state aid programs• Lead research design and methodology of focus groups on reengagement of adults into the education pipeline• Lead methodology of agency biannual report• Manage 3 staff• Serve on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee• Led multiple original research projects, including:“Some College, No Degree: A look at those who left early.” May 2016. Washington Education Research Association (WERA) Journal. Volume 8, No. 2.“College Bound Postsecondary Enrollment: An Exploration of Students’ Understanding and Beliefs”, co-authored with Isaac Kwakye and Kara Larson. November 2017. Washington Education Research Association (WERA) Journal, Volume 10, No. 1. Funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.Managed all data sharing agreements

• Plan research agenda for Research division• Work with stakeholders to identify critical issues in higher education in Washington• Conduct pipeline analysis using American Community Survey and Bureau of Labor Statistics data• Design, deploy and analyze survey to study impact of state work-study on student outcomes• Write report on demographics and characteristics of Washingtonians with some college but no degree

• Administer Survey of New Students (SONS), UC Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES), including management of budget requests, messaging, instrument design, analysis, and stakeholder communication.• Provide methodological and policy support to Undergraduate Advising Council; identify metrics to track success in advising initiatives over time; present findings to Advising Council and executive committee.• Provide methodological and policy support on revision of temporary academic support budget model; research and present peers’ budget models, assess incentives and funding scenarios, and develop recommended model to campus leadership.• Develop strategic plan for Office of Planning and Analysis.• Develop project management plans for workflows.• Write memoranda and proposals to campus leadership to develop survey research center establishment. • Develop alternate lender scoring methodology for UC Office of the President’s Preferred Private Lender List Committee.• Write briefing notes and reports concerning undergraduate success; topics include undergraduate graduation rates, international student experience, student debt at graduation, White House rankings.

• Lead measurement and evaluation of methodological approach to fraud detection for United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.• Lead development of evaluation methodology for justice training programs on behalf of Bureau of Justice Assistance.• Lead analytics and research design for Social Security Administration Ticket-to-Work program.• Lead survey and sampling methodology for VA project to determine interment preferences and satisfaction with current VA interment offerings.• Team member on assessment program for Department of Defense, contributing to cross-cultural qualitative and quantitative survey data research design, collection, and analysis.• Co-lead design and implementation of multifaceted, multi-regional assessments of program effectiveness for Department of Defense.• Develop survey methodologies for cross-cultural populations.• Manage coding of qualitative focus group transcripts, quantitative surveys, develop measures of inter-coder reliability.• Clean and analyze multi-national datasets.• Provide analytical support on Department of State survey projects.• Lead team testing and implementing econometric tools, development of R code for Department of Defense.• Lead team developing choice models for Department of Defense.• Identify and serve as point of contact for subject matter experts in Defense survey on Afghanistan• Write marketing papers and literature reviews on socio-cultural research methodologies, terrorism research, and research design for diverse audiences.

Fiscal and Policy Analyst, K-12 Education• Served as expert on student assessments, education technology, state education data systems, charter school performance, teacher credentialing and personnel policies for California Legislature.• Wrote reports for statewide distribution.• Wrote policy briefs and memoranda making recommendations to Legislature. Gave oral briefings to members of the Legislature, advocacy groups, and parent organizations.• Developed, administered, and analyzed survey regarding district funding choices.• Conducted site visits to charter schools and traditional schools.• Interviewed stakeholders.• Summarized and disseminated research and results of analyses to Legislature, advocacy groups and school districts.

Conducted interviews with current and former Congress members and staff regarding the legislative bargaining process. Supervised 90 undergraduate research projects, aiding in students' selection of topic, hypothesis formulation, background research, data analyses, and presentation of conclusions.

Designed and implemented behavioral experiments regarding citizens' political and economic decision-making for a study funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Wrote and edited several chapters for an NSF-funded book regarding US political parties. Created working datasets of Israeli Knesset and U.S. Senate roll call votes. Provided statistical analyses of data and background research for NSF-funded project on the power of political parties in leading democracies.Aided research team in designing and administering survey examining consumers' product expertise and choices.

Performed statistical analysis of data concerning student diversity, matriculation and graduation rates. Created reports presenting the analyses and conclusions on behalf of the President's Office.

Conducted economic games (behavioral experiments) and participant interviews, recruited study participants. Coded and organized data from economic fieldwork in Kenya and the United States.Conducted onsite interviews with spousal caretakers for an NIH-funded study on resources used or desired by those caring for patients suffering from Parkinson's disease and strokes.