Scholarship focused on graduate education research in biomedical graduate education, training, and workforce development) including research with the NIH BEST Consortium and via the SCISIPBIO Award (NIH-GMS/NSF-SBE) as well as scholarship of teaching and learning on graduate-level coursework. Continued focus on preparing doctoral trainees for teaching-related careers (Co-Director of the Certificate in College Science Teaching, EEDU 890 + EEDU 865 co-instructor) including adjacent careers such as science outreach, education, and higher ed administration. Co-instructor for Biostatistics for Lab Scientists (BBSP 710). National, university departmental service focused on justice equity diversity and inclusion; career development training; and coach skills training.

Develops and directs innovative professional development programs for 500+ biomedical graduate students and 500+ biomedical postdoctoral trainees. Independently designs, implements, and evaluates a comprehensive professional and career development program housed in the Office of Graduate Education. In collaboration with other Directors in OGE, analyzes data and shares outcomes with the local and national training communities through scholarly publications and presentations at conferences and other institutions. Provides individual professional career coaching and leadership mentoring for trainees. Contributes to and develops curricula and oversees academic Certificates including the College Science Teaching Certificate and provides direct academic instruction to PhD students.

Dedicated professional with expertise in coaching for career exploration, employment skill gap analysis, and goal setting for job application material preparation, resulting in over 80+ graduate and post doctoral trainees served. Innovative program development skills, applied to creation of novel trainee-led programming and deployment of unique professional opportunities for trainee career development, has led to an average of over 90+ events including over a 1400+ individual event registrations per year. Collaborative team member assists with internship placement, networking outreach, and internship advising trainees, resulting in placement of nearly 100 ImPACT Interns in the programs first 4 years. Experienced data analyst with focus on program evaluation, graduate education, and professional development outcomes, resulted in programmatic survey development and deployment as well as analysis of national professional development outcome data, resulting in multiple peer-reviewed publications.Science Training and Diversity Team in the The Office of Graduate Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillwww.tibbs.unc.edu

Skilled communicator with expertise coordinating human subjects behavioral research resulted in successful implementation of a twelve-month, five-data-point couples-study for people with osteoarthritis being taught how to become more physically active with the help of their partner. Experienced collaborator on a multi-disciplinary research team supervised a research staff of graduate and undergraduate staff members resulting in recruitment, enrollment in, and participation of more than 100 couples in the study.

Executive and leadership coach for administrators in higher education to find the professional pathway to effecting and fulfilling career success - explore alignment of strengths and leadership goals to craft and execute a vision for personal and professional success!

Serves as co-facilitator and co-founder of Higher Education Coaches - Special Interest Group: A community of #HigherEdCoaches. Designed and facilitated 6-mo coaching program to build local coaching community in academia. Facilitates ongoing reviews and scholarship on coaching in the academy. Support and built collaborative communities of practice at campuses across the Triangle.Learn more at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/higher-ed-coaches/Inaugural HEC-SIG Cohort: https://icfraleigh.org/event-3832961Visit the UNC Coaching Community at: https://tarheels.live/coachingcommunity/ICF- Raleigh Chapter: https://icfraleigh.org/

Gathered input from our regional members to focus efforts. Established quarterly virtual journal clubs, a monthly virtual social event (Cheers & Careers) to increase camaraderie, laid the groundwork for a regional industry-career development collaborative consortium to trade seats and programming opportunities. Built a community to incubate and implement regional and national ideas. Brought people together to identify commonalities in deeply held values, top priorities, and effective activities, to advance the regional group collective purpose.Continued to expand the regional leadership structure using a shared leadership model. Continued development of innovative programming including quarterly virtual journal clubs, a monthly virtual social event, and continued development of a collaborative consortium to trade resources, information and training opportunities. Continued to bring regional members to the table to identify commonalities to advance the regional group collective purpose.

Engaging instructor and teaching assistant for collegiate statistics and other psychology courses (multiple sections) including personality psychology, experimental methods, and introduction to psychology resulting in the successful training of hundreds of trained psychology undergraduate majors. Organized administrator of personnel training and supervision at the Muraven Self-Control in Life (SCIL) Lab, including mentorship of twelve research assistants, resulting in safe, secure, and effective lab operations in accordance with IRB protocols. Experienced communicator with data analysis skills specializing in quantitative evaluations resulted in a first author peer-reviewed publication and more than a dozen conference presentations at local, regional, and national conferences. Critical thinker with expertise in experimental design resulted in data collection of over a dozen research projects focused on self-regulation (particularly how individuals can build and use self-control) and other research topics including emotion regulation, mindfulness meditation, physical activity, and social modeling.

Excellent leadership skills, including experience in management and administrative oversight of a line platoon and headquarters platoon (supervising approximately 40 personnel per unit), led to recognition including award of Bronze Star & Meritorious Service Medals. Outstanding planning skills facilitated training and operations of Military Police forces in combat in Baghdad, Iraq as well as peacetime forces across the Korean peninsula.Positions included: Platoon Leader (Baghdad, Iraq), Executive Officer (Fort Bragg, NC), & Operations Officer (Seoul, Korea)

Innovative thinker proposed, designed, and executed a year-long project examining self-control strength building through repeated use via physical fitness training as part of the Seligman Lab (co-mentor Duckworth) resulting in completion of Psychology Honors Thesis and graduation with departmental honors. Insatiable investigator examined and analyzed primary source data to infer theoretical changes during the maturation/evolution of the discipline of sports psychology (with a focus on the case study of the changing view of aggression in sport) resulting in the completion of a second Honors Thesis in History and Sociology of Science.