Valerie N. Nelson, Ph.D Email & Phone Number

Bowie, Maryland, United States

Routinely engaged contractual customers to translate business needs into functional requirements; oversaw and assessed development of software, contractual documentation, and training materials against customer requirements; and oversaw user testing activities to obtain feedback for updates to deliverables during Agile development process. Provided recommendations to customers for adapting software deliverables and integrating new technology into operations. Prepared contract proposals, updated capability statements and product tri-folds, and drafted white papers describing functionality and benefits of E Cyber7 software products. Actively recruited and interviewed hire candidates, established monthly professional development workshop series for E Cyber7 workforce, and coached Mississippi Cyber Initiative staff through development and execution of a cyber camp with an instructional escape room for high schoolers.

Maryland, United States

Develop, implement and deliver training in academics, professional development, personal development and wellness that translate into practical life skills. Coordinate and execute training conferences, enrichment camps and community seminars, provide personal consultations and coaching, and train employees/volunteers to effectively deliver various training services and provide self-development opportunities. Establish and leverage business partnerships, obtain grants, market business services. Evaluate and report on effectiveness of training services.

Maryland, United States

Technical leader in the areas of cybersecurity, data science and AI/ML, academic outreach, and STEM workforce training (cybersecurity, data science mathematics, cryptanalysis, etc.). Applied cybersecurity, data science, software reverse engineering, cryptologic mathematics and cryptanalysis, signals analysis, network analysis, vulnerability assessment, combinatorial graph theory and forward error correction techniques and research to anticipate, address, and solve classified/unclassified problems related to national defense. Programming experience covers primarily Python with some C, C++, R, LaTeX, Unix/Linux with lots of use of Jupyter. Past experience with Maple, Matlab, Mathematica, Magma, SAS, Minitab, and General Assembly.Delegated by NSA Board of Directors’ Strategic Imperative - Increasing Data Science Literacy throughout the Intelligence Community & extended enterprise. Enabled scalable-reproducible learning modules for the implementation of data analytics, machine learning techniques, & efficient data management practices.

Maryland, United States

Facilitated and maintained customer relationships with portfolio exceeding $2 billion. Underwrote commercial real estate loans and performed financial, market, industry, and operational analyses of companies and clients. Created overview presentation for Mid-Atlantic Real Estate Division Executive to deliver at regional meetings.

Maryland, United States

Served on Department of Information Technology’s instructional Technology Team to support and provide training on the use of learning technology tools, analytics, and pedagogical strategies for faculty and staff. Created and delivered first Jupyter training to faculty and staff for analyzing and visualizing institutional and class-level data; created a Jupyter notebook to process and present monthly metrics for Blackboard Collaborate session data, and served as a consultant for undergraduate data science curriculum. Introduced the concept of the instructional Escape Room for assessing student competencies, coordinated annual “Tech Fest” conference for school community, created faculty training for using analytics to inform instruction and strategy, and compiled competencies or basic data literacy curriculum. Led popular “Creating Instructional Escape Rooms for Traditional and Online Learning” workshop at 2019 Online Learning Consortium (later repeated). Researched and applied Competency-Based Education pedagogical framework as instructional strategy under CBE expert.

Performed accounting activities such as processing invoices (Accounts Payable), updating billing system with new account information, preparing journal entries for and updating the General Ledger, and assisting with Accounts Receivable.

Graduate Certificate Data Science, Data Science, 4.0

Ph.D, Mathematics, 3.79

Master Of Science - Ms, Mathematics, 3.82

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics, 3.73