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Washington, Dc, Us

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Matt designed models and metrics for campaigns from local initiatives all the way to the U.S. Senate and gubernatorial levels, as well as for WPAi's portion of the RNC Voter Scoring system and WPAi's revolutionary daily tracking models.He also designed the WPAi Guided Analytics Platform, which has been named the 2019 Reed Award Recipient for Best Data Analytics Solution. Combined with our automated reporting systems, this platform enabled WPAi's team of data scientists and consultants to yield both analytics and strategic advice at a rate unheard of outside presidential campaigns.This platform allowed a handful of staff to build decisive analytics at scale by automating WPAi's data scientists' most effective model optimization techniques and using artificial intelligence to choose between them. This ensures proper solutions to challenges specific to political modeling, such as appropriate understanding of partisanship, politics-specific polling and sampling issues, and data gaps in the GOP Data Ecosystem. For the toughest models, this flexible system implemented full or partial model customizations, allowing for reinvestment of data scientists’ saved time where it could be most valuable. Among other successes, this system predicted the margin in the West Virginia Senate race within roughly 1600 votes and California’s 45th Congressional District within 1900.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

MRK Strategic provides full-stack strategic analytics services to political, advocacy, and corporate clients, particularly those with a Republican, conservative, or nonpartisan bent. We are dedicated to advancing the art and science of leveraging statistical, psychological and social science findings to advance clients' goals. Our offerings include a wide variety of custom modeling, targeting, consulting, and analytics services, and we will work with you to ensure an analytics and targeting package carefully tailored to your needs and goals.

I continued to develop TargetPoint's offerings, with a particular eye towards improving the accuracy and efficiency of modeling activities for the RNC Voter Scoring system, as well as developing ways to use campaign-style data for policymaking, legislative strategy, and other off-year activities. Additionally, I acquired, derived, and curated TargetPoint’s data library with an eye towards both new and proven predictors from social science, policy impacts, and the ways in which individual characteristics and social context interact to shape opinion.

Internally, I developed innovative solutions, metrics, and algorithms to improve our targeting of voters and customers; refine our processes; and provide cutting edge research insights. Externally, I consulted with clients on data science, contact strategy, and other matters of data-driven political decision making.I also led TargetPoint's development and implementation of the 2016 RNC Voter Scoring system, using over 300,000 survey responses to generate over 50.8 billion individual predictions. The system largely replaced traditional polling for the RNC, the Trump campaign, and other races in guiding strategic decision-making, driving resource distribution, and targeting with granular, predicted data. This allowed analysis of the electorate by any group we could define from hundreds of variables, directly translatable into vote goals, optimized target universes, and other planning metrics, seamlessly integrating the strategic and the tactical.

I developed and built innovative solutions, metrics, and algorithms to improve our targeting of voters and customers, with a particular eye towards incorporating insights from the social sciences into political data techniques. I also executed cloud-based microtargeting solutions with multiple clients, including national projects that each provided microtargeting data on all 190 million registered voters in the United States. I implemented MicroTargeting projects with the TargetPoint partners and team and consulted with TargetPoint clients on data science and voter targeting matters, including the Republican National Committee, the Mitch McConnell and Scott Brown Senate campaigns, and other state-wide campaigns.

I developed, sold, and implemented the National Dialogue Monitor, a digital and social media monitoring tool designed to measure the information flow impact of events and campaigns, which was implemented for Romney For President and the Republican National Committee, trade associations in the energy and food and beverage industries, public relations firms and corporations. In addition to traditional monitoring, we used fingerprints left in digital earned media to measure the impact of advertisements, article placements, campaign efforts, and message penetration, as to mine for choice AdWords. I also built custom metrics of sentiment, detailed influencer analyses, and predictive news cycle analyses.

New Haven, Ct

I was a teaching fellow for The American Presidency (taught by Professor Stephen Skowronek), Introduction to American Politics (twice – once taught by Professor Daniel Butler and once by Professor Sam DeCanio), and Crime and Punishment (taught by Professor Gregory Huber). I received special training and certification in teaching students to write papers and in teaching political science. One of the semesters during which I taught Intro to American Politics, I was asked to create a unit on Religion in American Politics, conducting the lecture, choosing the reading assignments, and writing the related questions on the final exam.

I organized voter mobilization efforts, policy formation, and campaign strategy for this successful city council campaign. I incorporated academic research into decisions on optimal mobilization activities, and field experiments into the get out the vote effort to provide valuable metrics for future campaigns.

Master Of Philosophy (M.Phil.), Political Science And Government

I earned field qualifications in American Politics, Quantitative Methods, Political Psychology, and Comparative Politics. I have conducted.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Political Science And Government

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science And Government

Activities and Societies: Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Bruin Republicans, Bruins United