• Provide mix of technical deliverables (dashboards, data sources, python scripts etc.), analytics strategy and/or training depending on client need. Sought out for and particularly enjoy unorthodox engagements requiring heavy coding.• Simultaneously manage multiple client engagements across public and private sectors. Generated over $500k in service contract renewals across multiple clients.• Quickly adapt to wide variety of subject matter. Examples include generating ML-based insights for a commercial real estate services company, tracking manufacturing and testing for a fabless semiconductor program, and procurement & supply chain management for a transportation firm.• Actively participate in pre-sales activities, internal initiatives aimed at piloting new product features, enhancing processes within the organization.

• Task led data analytics team in design and maintenance of dashboards, automated reporting, and ad-hoc analyses for Asylum Division, USCIS and DHS leadership, as well as meeting interagency and congressional requests under tight deadlines and intense scrutiny.• Spearheaded Division’s adoption of Tableau and Databricks, overhauling suite of dashboards from Oracle Business Intelligence with the former and initiating data cleaning and last-mile ETL efforts with the latter. Awarded Innovator of the Year for the above.• Piloted machine learning models to optimize interview scheduling. Conducted inferential statistical analyses of caseload to inform quality assurance reviews and policy-making.• Represented Analytic team’s interests in backlog refinement meetings with case management software development team. Acted as analytics liaison and subject matter expert with technical teams from across DHS: database administrators, data engineers, IT product managers, and statistical teams, etc.

• Managed training & quality assurance program, designing and delivering training curricula for over 200 employees on matters of immigration law, policy, and procedure, as part of a four-person team. • Spearheaded analytics efforts within training program, forecasting upcoming caseload to determine optimal training schedule, and streamlining collection and usage of training data.• Provide presentations, briefings, one-on-one training, job aids, and other guidance as necessary to ensure that our employees have the skills and information needed to succeed at their jobs, in line with law, policy and official guidance

• Made final determinations on hundreds of asylum claims by conducting interviews with asylum-seekers and research on countries of origin, applying analysis to frequently shifting framework of immigration law.

• Assisted with econometric impact evaluation of US Government-funded development programs

• Awarded the David L. Boren Fellowship for current graduate students, funded by the National Security Education Program of the U.S. government for intensive foreign language study abroad. • Pursued intensive Turkish language studies, achieving an advanced level of proficiency• Performed Research for Masters Thesis on Turkey as an emerging donor of Overseas Development Assistance in association with Sabanci University

• Performed analysis of Refugee Status Determination decisions issued by the Bosnian government• Documents reviewed in English and original Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian• Helped to draft various legal documents

• Spearheaded a volunteer program of 40 Bulgarian language tutors, working with refugee youth from 3-17 years of age at the Integration Center of the Bulgarian State Agency for Refugees• Secured €10,000 in private funding for the continuation of the program through 2012-2013; the program has since found further funding and continues to date• Led and managed all volunteers in trainings and daily activities at the Integration Center• Personally volunteered as Bulgarian language tutor

• Taught 22+ hours weekly at 2 schools - primary and secondary• Organizer of the conference “Yes We Can - Best Practices in Multi-Ethnic Education” -brought together eight Roma-focused NGO and government leaders from across the country to present to 100 local service providers; organized alongside multiple partners, including two municipalities headed by opposing political parties; won grant for and managed $4,410 budget and logistics• Organizer of volunteer program “Bulgaricorps - Yambol” - utilized ethnic Bulgarian high school students as assistant teachers in a de facto segregated primary school; the project bridged deep ethnic divides among Yambol’s Bulgarian, Turkish and Roma youth, created positive role models, and increased educational performance• Facilitator of Peace Corps training events - led various sessions on the topics of multi-ethnic education, volunteer work with the Roma community, and good teaching practices

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