Professional Experience

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Experience

Austin Independent School District

Jul 2019 – Present

Evaluation Analyst II

Jul 2021 – Present

Lead Program Evaluator for the Multilingual Education and the Creative Learning Initiative Programs

  • Managing an Evaluation Analyst I employee
  • Managing and cleaning large data tables
  • Working with assistant superintendents, executive level directors and program managers to: determine evaluation plans, measure and collect data (creation of rubrics, scorecards, surveys, case study designs, etc.), present findings to stakeholders, collaborate on recommendations for program improvement
  • Aid in data analysis for the Superintendents' scorecard to assess strategic plan progress
  • Respond to data requests from the Board of Trustees
  • Working with the Director of Management Information Systems to ensure data needs are met

Evaluation Analyst I

Jul 2019 – Jul 2021

  • Transformed program dilemmas into research questions, utilizing quantitative and qualitative methods to pinpoint program pains and unpack achievements
  • Managed, manipulated, and analyzed large and diverse data tables, providing actionable insights to stakeholders via contextual, data-driven stories, resulting in increased program efficiency and grant support

Capacity Catalyst - Meals on Wheels

Feb 2019 – Jun 2019

Extern Program Evaluator

Capacity Catalyst offers a competitive externship matching advanced students and early career professionals with non profits and social entrepreneurs who have a need for research evaluation & data analysis. At Meals on Wheels Central Texas, I designed a program evaluation that shed light on the nuances of Meals on Wheels clients and how these different client types experience services.

  • Consulted to design and conduct a mixed-methods research project in under 3 months
  • Performed statistical analyses unpacking discrepancies in program effectiveness amongst clients, resulting in strategic service administration and providing evidence of superiority over competitors

United Way for Greater Austin

Oct 2017 – Feb 2019

Intern in Research & Evaluation

Advisor: Alison Bentley, PhD, Director of Data Evaluation - Success by Six Team

  • Managed, cleaned and compiled longitudinal quantitative data
  • Performed statistical analyses to model trajectories, pinpoint co-varying variables and link predictor and outcome variables
  • Managed, cleaned and compiled longitudinal data on over 1,400 people from several data sets in Excel and R
  • Analyzed scores over time from 1,400 people to model trajectories, pinpoint co-varying variables and link predictor and outcome variables

University of Texas at Austin

Aug 2014 – Jun 2019

Graduate Research Assistant

Advisor: Deborah Jacobvitz, PhD, Director of The School of Human Ecology

  • Developed several lines of primary longitudinal research and served as co-principal investigator on an interventionary research study
  • Designed research methodology, managing data and analyzing complex statistical models
  • Presented original research at national & international research conferences and published in a peer-reviewed empirical journal
  • Managed research lab processes and multidisciplinary research partnerships

Graduate Student

Department of Human Development & Family Science - Doctoral Program. Dissertation: The Maternal Birth Experience & Infant Attachment: A Mixed Methods Study. Master's Thesis: Parents' Joint Attachment & Caregiving: The Moderating Role of Marital Quality

Teacher Assistant

  • Attended each lecture and communicated directly with undergraduate students
  • Collaborated with professors to create scoring rubrics and graded materials
  • Maintained course webpages through the Canvas Network

Relevant Graduate Coursework

Research Methods

  • Validity & Reliability
  • Internal consistency
  • Factor analysis
  • Questionnaire construction
  • Observational & Psychophysiological measures
  • ANOVA, regression, mediation, moderation
  • Correlation and causation
  • Experimental design, Quasi-experiments
  • Multi-level designs
  • Meta-analysis

Analyzing Development & Change

  • Designing studies of change
  • Modeling individual growth
  • The multi-level model for change
  • Using time-varying covariates
  • Discontinuous and nonlinear change
  • Latent growth modeling
  • Discrete-time hazards models
  • Dynamic systems

Advanced Regression & Structural Models

  • Regression & Path analysis
  • Latent variables
  • Developing structural SEM models
  • Model specification & evaluation
  • Testing mediation and indirect effects
  • Missing data approaches
  • Latent growth curve models
  • Mixture modeling

Interested in working together?

I'm always open to discussing new opportunities in research, evaluation, and data analysis.

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