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Kirkland, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Leveraging the entire data lifecycle to provide actionable decision support through predictive analytics, machine learning models, program evaluation, and survey research to improve student success outcomes, course demand planning, and budget forecasting.

Seattle, WA, US

• Expanding data access and literacy across campus through the development of high-impact reporting, operational efficiency, and implementation of data governance standards. Selected achievements
• Student Success Application – Consolidated student success business processes, operational reporting, analytic trends, and training material into a single advising PowerBI application.
• Budget and Tuition Forecast Report – Automated annual budget and goal-setting processes. Integrated predictive models, real-time risk indicators, and key performance indicators into executive reporting.
• Student Retention Model – Developed predictive retention models and intervention strategies using survival rate analysis and machine learning methodologies.
• Comprehensive Financial Model – Developed a financial profit and loss model integrating student credit hour generation and financial aid expenditure to assess marginal rates of profit at the academic division level.
• Student Satisfaction & Assessment Catalog– Automated consolidation of student satisfaction survey data for assessments and accreditation processes.

Seattle, WA, US

• Established standard intake processes, quality assurance programs, and data governance standards while partnering with functional areas to promote report usage, expand analytical capability, and optimize data-informed.
• User-Centered Design Standards – Designed standard intake processes and training curriculums for BI tools.
• Knowledge Management – Integrated Confluence knowledge bases into reports increasing usage by 40%
• Jira Issue Tracking – Implemented standard operating procedures to standardize user interactions. Reduced time-to-first-response rates to under 4 hours.
• Data Governance Security Lead – Act as primary business intelligence consultant to the data governance committee related to data access, security, and governance best practices.
• Primary Data Management – Automated primary data management through PowerBI API functionality eliminating manual documentation and ensuring standard data definitions across models.

Seattle, WA, US

• Led implementation of a new enterprise business intelligence platform. Set the strategic and technical roadmap to develop the fully integrated enterprise data warehouse and PowerBI reporting architecture. Selected.
• PowerBI – Implemented PowerBI for 70+ reports, supporting 1,000+ daily users effectively.
• Enterprise Data Warehouse – Successfully led junior engineer team in deploying AWS data lakes, defining, and validating Matillion ETL processes, and developing 15 primary Redshift data models.
• Team Lead – Establish a culture of trust through daily 1-on-1 technical and relationship-building meetings creating an effective growth-oriented environment for a team of 7.
• Program management – Implemented agile project planning using Smartsheet. Led stakeholder engagement to define priorities and ensured program timelines remained under budget and on schedule.

Seattle, WA, US

• Selected Achievements
• Academic Program Portfolio Review Report – consulted with executive leadership and campus partners to define and develop an equitable data-driven methodology to evaluate academic program viability
• Course Demand – led the development of a predictive tool used to optimize course offerings
• Qualtrics Automation – Leverage Qualtrics API to automate survey panels, extract survey results, and consolidate findings into SQL databases.

Seattle, WA, US

• Selected Acheivements
• Metadata analysis of survey sampling and effects of oversampling on response rates
• Federal and State reporting compliance – Created custom SQL queries to automate compliance reports.
• Regional market analysis – Analyzing state and regional job market saturation projections.
• Peer Data Comparisons – Developed and maintained a comprehensive peer database.
• Data Sharing Manager – Ensured data share agreements were approved and facilitated data gathering.

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Created custom database and excel management tools supporting multiple Department of Education, private contracts, and longitudinal survey projects. Selected Achievements
• Design and development of Project Talent database to track participants in a 50-year longitudinal study
• Development of custom SQL queries for the 2012 National Authorizer Charter School Catalog
• AIR’s Federal Statistics Program External Funding Opportunities Database
• National Assessment of Education Progress Item Development Database
• Customized Microsoft Excel data validation templates for State Library Association Survey

Arlington, Virginia, US

Redesign of the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics' Office of Management and Budget database.

Washington, DC, US

Transatlantic Trends gauges transatlantic relations through a broad public opinion survey of U.S., Turkish, and European attitudes.http://trends.gmfus.org/Provided programmatic support for the analysis and dissemination of the 2011 survey.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Reevaluating Deterrence Theory & Concepts for Use in Cyberspace. Under the direction of Dr. Allison Astorino-Courtois

Master Of Arts, International Relations With An Emphasis In Research Design And Analysis

Bachelor Of Arts, International Relations