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Saint Paul, MN, US

United States

• Established research strategy, hired team to execute, and contributed to an overall product strategy with stellar team management for business product focused on social media tools.
• Managed a team of up to seven other researchers, including hiring five researchers, in their research processes, from study development, execution, and dissemination.
• Co-sponsored design sprint scoped on comprehensive redesign of core product flow to address key users pain points, directly informing half of the product team’s Q1 and Q2 roadmaps.
• Authored and coordinated with partners in research and across functions to develop first research strategy for a product space focused on small and medium businesses’ organic, paid, and messaging tools.

• Utilized mixed methods approaches to execute studies of studies ranging from foundational to evaluative and usability efforts resulting in comprehensive and actionable research.
• Developed, executed, and presented results of foundational concept testing and early alpha tests to cross-functional partners and stakeholders in support of a 0-1 project in the business messaging product space.
• Owned data and research efforts identifying and eliminating user pain points for a cross-org tool unification project including establishing research criteria, aligning cross-org stakeholders, and synthesizing results.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Perform rigorous analysis as part of interdisciplinary research teams to address questions raised by clients across the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security. Presently principally responsible for.
• In support of a Congressionally mandated recruiting focused pilot program, coordinated multiple client stakeholders, defined metrics, conducted quantitative analysis of experimental design and qualitative assessments.
• Developed quantitative models based on large survey, panel, and administrative datasets to predict future trends across a range of personal related outcomes for the United States government using R, Stata, and Excel
• Led a twelve-person research team as principal investigator providing requirement, cost, and risk strategy and analytic support to a billion-dollar acquisition program.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Perform rigorous and objective policy research across a variety of policy domains, research methods, and data sources.

Responsible for creation and administration of several college courses. 2010-2014 Associate Instructor (Indiana University)-Instructor of RecordStatistical Methods I: Introduction to Statistics (graduate course, one semester)Statistics for Sociology (undergraduate course, one semester)Charts, Graphs, and Tables (undergraduate course, two semesters)Social.

Minneapolis, MN

Assisted in creation, cleaning and management of a large original survey dataset, as well as creation and management of smaller datasets for specific populations. Transcribed and coded research interviews. Assisted in writing and other preparation of preliminary and final reports for research network and corporate research partner.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Sociology

Activities and Societies: Member American Sociological Association, Society for the Study of Social ProblemsDissertation titled "Political.

Bachelor'S Degree, Sociology

Minored in Political Science and Statistics. Dean's List Six Semesters.