Melissa Wright Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, PA, US

Philadelphia, PA, US

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

New York, NY, US

• Provide partnership and consultations to our network of regions and national teams aimed at helping continuous learning and improvement
• Assist and/or lead the facilitation of live or virtual learning experiences for the team and clients that focus on building skills and knowledge of outcome measurement and improvement
• Assist in developing and refining suites of both self-service tools and guided resources to strengthen learning and continuous improvement skills across the organization

Philadelphia, PA, US

Philadelphia, PA, US

• Collect, maintain, validate and analyze data relevant for assessing the academic and programmatic standing of ELECT Students
• Integrate data from multiple reports into dashboards and quarterly reports to monitor targeted program outcomes and ensure state performance measures and grant requirements are met
• Serve as administrator for Database for ELECT Case Management (DECO) design, security, and training of all users
• Calculate monthly payment summaries and manage invoicing across five partner agencies
• Serve as a liaison for the ELECT office to various administrative offices, and external organizations
• Develop clear, visual displays of data that inform high-stake decisions such as contract awards

Philadelphia, PA, US

• Selected in the top 4% of applicants across the nation for 10 month Education Pioneers Analyst Fellowship
• Create Microsoft PowerPoint presentations displaying complex information utilizing District, school, and student-level data for Senior Cabinet
• Monitor District data requests in Google Doc Suite and complete internal and external data requests and analysis to inform decision-making regarding programs and policies aimed at improvements in student achievement
• Coordinate dating sharing across central office departments and analyze data sets in STATA using sound methodology to produce monthly and quarterly management dashboards
• Synthesize disparate data sets to support calculations of School Progress Report metrics following

• Develop evaluation strategy and corresponding instruments for public sector clients
• Collect and analyze both quantitative and qualitative data
• Communicate findings to clients by drafting reports and memos

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

• Principal coordinator and data analyst for research project evaluating impact of a program intended to provide mentorship resources to minority faculty in health sciences
• Utilized STATA® for directed summary and conditional analyses, and employed Microsoft Excel® for budget management
• Created comprehensive online and telephone surveys designed for medical professionals and completed semi-structured qualitative interviews with approximately 70 respondents
• Contributed to collection of data on demographics, English language facility and mental development from parent-child dyads for a study of early intervention strategies
• Maintained conformity to protocol and standards set by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for two human subjects research (HSR) projects
• Completed proprietary and CITI (Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative) IRB certification course for research with human subjects

Philadelphia, PA, US

• Guided approximately 40 first-year graduate students in the Fels Master of Public Administration program in an introductory course exploring calculus and linear algebra based foundations of statistics
• Demonstrated statistical concepts explored in class using SPSS during weekly lab sessions
• Graded homework and assessments using a variety of methods and techniques to provide effective, timely, and appropriate feedback to students to support their learning
• Identified students in need of additional support and provided help in individual or group settings
• Aided in the development of appropriate teaching materials to ensure content and methods of delivery met learning objectives

Master Of Education Policy, Education Policy

Master Of Public Administration (Mpa), Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics