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Impact 70k+ employees via complex strategic analyses using HR dataDevelop and maintain strong relationships with senior HR clients, collaborating with cross-functional teams including IT, Security, and DEI to solve complex organizational problemsServe as primary contact for Business Warehouse reporting support across NBCU globallyArchitect analytics solutions using Python and SQL to streamline internal processes

Manage the scheduling and processing of participants within cognitive research studies.Work collaboratively with graduate students to conceptualize and conduct research projects about: sex differences in emotion word processing, divergent thinking in survival processing, and priming for food-related behaviors.Independently conceived and orchestrated a research study on emotion word processing using a lexical decision task to measure differences between discrete emotion categories and between sexes.Conducted a literature search and wrote an IRB proposal, collected stimuli, and designed an experiment using the program Match to match stimuli words on valence, arousal, and other dimensions. Coded online experiment and survey in PsyToolKit.Wrote extensive macros in Excel to process data and execute preliminary analyses on reaction time data. Analyzed data using mixed ANOVAs in SPSS.

Supervise approx. 40 hotline volunteers and provide introductory orientations including on administrative policies.Evaluate performance, create schedules and facilitate training and onboarding of volunteers.Provide emotional support to distressed individuals in crisis and debrief distressing calls.

Worked full-time in a fast-paced substance use lab.Independently led a 12-week double-blind research study on experimental medication theorized to treat marijuana withdrawal. Collaborated with research assistants, doctors, therapists, and nurses on additional treatment studies for tobacco, alcohol and opioids.Established exceptional rapport with patients, scheduled patient visits on a weekly basis, Administered multiple clinical tests and assessments spanning drug use, mood, depression, and anxiety, organized extensive patient charts, documented medication adherence, presented study notes at lab meetings, and entered data using Redcap.