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Bellevue, Ky, Us

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

- Serving as an epidemiological expert for department.- Supervising assigned injury surveillance staff and harm reduction programs.- Giving advice and counsel to employees on work and administrative matters.- Design, manage, and evaluate surveillance systems used to monitor and characterize adverse health outcomes in the community.- Manage the local coordination of activities related to surveillance and investigations.- Collecting, processing, and analyzing public health data using tools such SAS, R, Python, Tableau, and ArcGIS.- Coordinating and conducting communicable disease investigations, epidemiologic research, and assisting with community health assessments.- Preparing, reviewing, and presenting routine statistical summary reports and special reports as needed.- Assisting with the evaluation of public health practices associated with disease prevention.- Developing methods to monitor and improve data quality.- Maintaining collaborative partnerships with local public health stakeholders.- Assisting with the management of statistical databases and maintaining accurate records.

Estes Park, Colorado, United States

- Effectively provide individualized instruction to high school students on topics including algebra I, algebra II, geometry, precalculus, probability theory, and statistics.- Develop and implement specialized learning plans to address the specific needs for each student.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Support professor Dr. Jay Summet in a range of course management responsibilities for a graduate-level course CS 7638 Robotics: Artificial Intelligence Techniques. Duties include: - Develop programming assignments and exam questions.- Grading assignments.- Fielding questions and tutoring students via an online platform Ed Discussion.

Mountainview, California, United States

- Collaborated with engineers to design experiments and develop models for optimizing medical device manufacturing processes.- Presented results to technical and non-technical stakeholders to inform decision making.- Authored regulatory reports for FDA audit and approval.

Tampa, Florida, United States

- Provided comprehensive programming support on interdisciplinary clinical trial project teams, implementing analyses and generating tables, listings, and figures according to study protocols, SAPs, DPPs, and CDSIC standards. - Consistently performed cloud-based data management including the extraction, generation, and compilation of oncological clinical trial data (Phases I, II, and III). - Validated SAS programs and SDTM/ADaM datasets created internally and externally with contact research organizations. - Developed and delivered five SAS training seminars on the following topics: "Advanced SAS Topics: 5 Ways to Create Macro Variables" (Nov 15, 2017); "Conditional Processing with SAS IFC and IFN Functions" (Oct 26, 2017); "Advanced SAS Topics: Introduction to Macro Programming" (Oct 19, 2017); "Application Lifecycle Management and User Access Testing" (April 28, 2017); and "Clinical Trial Study Designs" (Apr 10, 2017).

Polk County, Florida, United States

- Generated weekly mosquito surveillance reports and performed data entry, data cleaning, and data preparation for subsequent analyses.- Monitored local Aedes mosquito populations by conducting routine, countywide BG trap surveillance and larval sampling.- Performed weekly outdoor sentinel chicken surveillance activities including phlebotomy and site maintenance.

Tampa, Florida, United States

- Assisted graduate students in USF College of Public Health with epidemiological research projects using SAS.- Created instructional videos demonstrating key SAS skills for beginner and intermediate programmers.

Tampa, Florida, United States

Supported professors in course management responsibilities in multiple courses at the USF College of Public Health. Duties included lecturing, developing assignments, updating curricula, grading assignments, and tutoring students in the following courses:- PHC 6512 Vectors of Human Disease, Dr. Robert Novak (SP 2016)- PHC 6050 Biostatistics I, Dr. James Mortimer (FA 2015)- PHC 6512 Vectors of Human Disease, Dr. Robert Novak (SP 2015)- PHC 6037 Public Health Virology, Dr. Robert Novak (SP 2015)- PHC 4069 Biostatistics in Society, Dr. Wei Wang (FA 2014)- PHC 4140 Introduction to Public Health Geographic Information Systems, Dr. Benjamin Jacob (FA 2014)- PHC 6194 Public Health Geographic Information Systems, Dr. Benjamin Jacob (SU 2014)- PHC 6053 Categorical Data Analysis, Dr. Yougui Wu (SP 2014)

Tampa, Florida, United States

1 year research grant with USF College of Public Health, Department of Global Health. Duties included:- Collected, cleaned, and prepared data from eight secondary government sources for analysis.- Analyzed the geographic, temporal, and multivariate relationships between tuberculosis incidence and migrant farm worker populations in Florida, 2009-2013, utilizing choropleth mapping, spatial autocorrelation measures, negative binomial regression (with and without repeated measures), and all-subsets model selection.

Tampa, Florida, United States

Assisted a professor of entomology with vector-borne disease research. Duties included:- Conducted a literature review of the vector ecology of Anopheles albimanus in Haiti.- Generated maps of Haiti visualizing elevation, population density and vector habitat distribution.

Tampa, Florida, United States

Joint summer research grant between Polk County Health Department and USF College of Public Health, Department of Community & Family Health. Duties included: - Modelled risk factors associated with repeat chlamydial infections in Polk County, 2009-2012, using logistic regression and stepwise model selection.- Applied join-point regression to investigate factors related to nonparticipation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children in Polk County, 2009-2012.- Provided methodological and statistical guidance to graduate student research groups.- Communicated results to county health department stakeholders via oral presentation and written report.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Specialization: Machine Learning

Master Of Science - Ms, Public Health

Specialization: Global Communicable Disease Graduate Certificates: Epidemiology, Applied Biostatistics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Social Work