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Washington, Dc, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

• Improved SAS financial program models to increase the accuracy of predicting cash flows, covering credit portfolios with loan disbursements exceeding $25 billion. • Automated summary tables in VBA and implemented validation enhancements in Excel, enabling the client to quickly view relevant financial data and make informed decisions for budget formulation. • Ran SQL queries to efficiently clean, transform, and extract data from the data warehouse Snowflake, facilitating the automation of a Tableau dashboard, which served as a tool for monitoring data quality.

Bethesda, Maryland, Us

• Cleaned and analyzed the national facilities survey of 500+ participants in R.• Created visualizations with Power BI to show the project leaders the patterns and outliers in the data for quality control.• Updated the Credit Enhancement Transactions Dashboard by formatting Excel spreadsheets and notifying the IT team of any data inconsistencies between the spreadsheets and dashboard.• Wrote reports based on the findings from the interviews and reviewing their grant documents.• Interviewed financial institutions and their lenders to ensure that funds were used appropriately. • Collaborated with a project team to create Technical Assistance products for state workforce systems to improve the quality of the collected demographic data.• Aggregated and updated charter school state data for the State Resources for Charter Schools webpage.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• Audited spreadsheets and data in relational databases that had been updated by other research assistants to ensure the quality and accuracy of data.• Collaborated and communicated effectively with team members on multiple projects to meet client deadlines and quality standards.• Coded in STATA to conduct random sampling and clean data for replication and further analysis.• Trained contractors to administer a preliteracy assessment tool and in data collection procedures and data analysis software.• Managed relational databases with hundreds of records and conducted preliminary investigations using programming queries.

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, Us

• Collected, organized, and visualized fire data from NASA as well as demographic data from the Census Bureau to evaluate and inform disaster relief policy using GIS, R, and Excel.• Recoded variables, merged datasets, and analyzed data from a cross-sectional dataset of around 55,000 survey respondents to run regression models in STATA to investigate the effects of increased access to literacy-related opportunities on a child’s academic performance.• Developed and analyzed survey data with 123 responses to measure the impact of COVID-19 on the education outcomes of college students using Microsoft Excel.• Presented research findings at a poster session for Boston College’s Advancing Research and Scholarship Day and to a classroom of 22 undergraduate students at Boston College.• Conducted literature reviews and replicated results from published research papers on education policy and the causal relationship to educational attainment and future earnings using STATA.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

• Researched and aggregated information on youth designated grant programs to request performance datasets from sixteen federal agencies and departments, including the Family and Youth Services Bureau and the U.S. Department of Education.• Reviewed six Youth Participatory Action Research proposals to guide the distribution of $50,000 to fund research on the advancement of children with an incarcerated parent.• Designed data crosswalks with common data elements from the National Institutes of Health and a common youth outcomes framework from the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs.

Chestnut Hill, Ma, Us

• Extracted key financial information from SEC filings and Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) reports of Fortune 500 member companies onto a 180+ line dataset in Microsoft Excel to evaluate companies’ sustainability practices.• Curated and distributed up-to-date research on the importance of corporate social responsibility on employee recruitment, retention, customer loyalty, and community goodwill to help inform member companies’ corporate citizenship decision-making.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Managed and taught a youth program of 13 students that led to an increase in their understanding of civic engagement by 50% demonstrated by pre-and post-test surveys.• Collected and analyzed survey data to identify which recruitment methods resulted in the most efficient program enrollment.• Wrote an evaluation report based on survey analysis and observations made throughout the program to provide recommendations for improving future outreach and higher program engagement.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

• Contributed to a published work by conducting independent research on the financial effects of the 2018–2019 U.S. federal government shutdown on the service industry and real estate market in D.C. to promote informed investment decisions in D.C.

New York, New York, Us

• Taught the concepts of loops, variables, conditionals, and functions that form the basis of all programming languages to 30 middle school girls at Florida International University.• Guided the students through various code and design projects throughout the Fall.• Worked in teams to complete a computer science impact project that aimed to solve a real-world problem in their community.

Master Of Science - Ms, Measurement & Evaluation

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics, Mathematics And Finance Minors