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Peoria, IL, US

Springfield, Illinois, United States

• Serve as a data steward for the state government, school board, administrators, and public conducting analytical and statistical reviews of educational data
• Act as project manager for the Power BI team, supervising a professional team of four developers to develop and maintain all Power BI projects agency-wide
• Serve as project admin for ad-hoc data request, supervising a team of sixteen who contribute to the ad-hoc request process, including responding to all FOIA requests
• Serve as the project admin for the Illinois Report Card Data team, overseeing the data that feeds the aware-winning Illinois Report Card with a team of three
• Progressively responsible administrator of multiple projects and teams
• Provide training and technical assistance to internal and external users of data systems

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

• Develop curriculum for a two-year sequence of social sciences courses
• Progressively responsible administrator of multiple projects and teams
• Provide exceptional customer service and strategically negotiate compromise between US and Chinese admins, parents, and students
• Demonstrate effective oral and written communication in multiple languages
• Teach a sequence of courses including Statistics, Economics, Communications, and Digital Design
• Develop and implementing policies and procedures for a yearly school survey

Beijing, China

• Offer students a project-based content course to broaden academic knowledge, practical skills, and understanding of US media
• Foster creativity through collaborative multimedia projects
• Design and manage a yearly viral video competition
• Courses taught are Introduction to New Media and Applications in New Media

Beijing, China

• Develop the curriculum for non-native English speaking professionals in the inaugural cohort of a top leadership program
• Mentor students in thesis development, academic writing, research, and public presentation

Beijing, China

• Collaborate with a team of instructors to develop a communications curriculum
• Introduce students to social science theory and liberal arts-style education
• Train skills in oral communication, presentation, and public speaking
• Help non-native English speakers adapt to the high standards of an US University program
• Design and manage a storytelling showcase every Spring
• Courses taught are Introduction to Communication and Public Speaking and Presentation

Beijing, China

• Develop the curriculum for non-native English speaking professionals in the inaugural cohort of a top leadership program
• Instruct courses focused on adapting and thriving in Western professional environments
• Mentor students in thesis development and public presentation

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

• Simplify technical language to teach statistics and economics to students with low English level
• Demonstrate effective oral and written communication in multiple languages
• Train students in academic writing with an emphasis on admissions tests (IELTS, TOEFL, GRE)
• Host and present academic talks twice each semester for the international college
• Prepare undergraduates for an MBA program at McMaster University in Canada
• Courses taught are Statistics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, & Introduction to Accounting

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Co-founded a submission-based culture magazine, publishing creative non-fiction, art, and photography two times per month
• Formulate a social media strategy and increasing readership to more than 20,000 per issue
• Develop and maintain relationships with contributors and creative talent
• Organize and host community engagement activities

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Lead research and data analysis of two waves of original national surveys of Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan on political and religious opinion
• Clean, manage, and organize messy and problematic datasets
• Develop techniques to draw inference from incomplete data due to high levels of non-response
• Design, build, and apply formal models to test theoretical arguments using advanced methods
• Build a new dataset combining individual-level indicators from multiple waves of Values Surveys with country-level indicators from eight different democracy datasets

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Lead statistics coding labs and assisting with lectures on statistical theory
• Administer tests, managing grades, and advising students for John Freeman’s Global Politics
• Founded the Comparative Politics Colloquium and was the president from 2010-2013

Normal, Illinois, United States

• Prepare segments on local news, report on city council meetings, conduct research, interview local leaders, and write copy for on-air personalities
• Conduct statistical research on foreclosures for story that won the Edward R. Murrow award
• Lead a project to transition the physical music library to digital for online streaming
• Program the music for a weekly specialty show on show tunes and musicals

Master'S Degree, Political Science And Government

Chinese Language And Literature

Chinese Language And Literature

Political Economy

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Economics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Political Science And Government

Associate Of Arts And Sciences - Aas

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Political Science And Government