Evaluation Specialist – Foreign Services Institute, U.S. Department of State, June 2022-Present
Design, program, and monitor surveys and dashboards for 8+ evaluation courses with more than 75+ students weekly.
Implement standardized attitudinal and behavioral evaluation survey questions for single and multi-week training courses.
Define survey best practices for stakeholders to establish efficient processes for data collection and analysis.
Audit survey practices and develop multi-staged methodological improvement plans.
Co-lead implementation of Qualtrics quantitative and qualitative survey analysis and dashboard creation.
Co-direct departmental migration of survey implementation from Survey Monkey to Qualtrics.
Principal Investigator – Powerlessness and Anti-Establishment Political Behavior, University of Houston, March 2019-May 2022
Planned, built, and executed 3 end-to-end original research projects around current health of American democracy.
Crafted grant proposals, novel survey measures, and experiments for diverse sampling populations through CloudResearch, MTurk, and Lucid recruiting platforms.
Communicated the significance of findings in relevant academic journals and conferences.
Quantitative Researcher – U.S. Study of Political Behavior, University of Houston, August 2019-May 2022
Managed 6+ independently run, multi-stage survey studies.
Designed and analyzed 6+ single- and multi-wave, large-n surveys that investigate growing trends in misinformation, conspiracy theories, polarization, and partisanship and how/if researchers affect these attitudes with survey exposure.
Developed, programmed, and deployed survey experiments, including hand-coded conjoint designs.
Presented findings to peers at local and national academic conferences.
Designed and published 20+ novel survey questions about conspiratorial rumors and misinformation.
Quantitative Researcher – U.S. Study of Misinformation & Conspiracy Theories, University of Houston, August 2017-July 2019
Designed and edited 20+ novel survey questions about conspiratorial rumors and misinformation.
Created and programmed survey logic using Qualtrics.
Presented findings to peers at a local and national academic conference.
Published findings in industry-leading public opinion journal.
Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Houston, August 2017-August 2021
Collected, coded, and analyzed 5+ data sets regarding state and federal level election records.
Assisted in planning the Political Misperceptions academic conference held at the University of Houston.
Designed, edited, and coded 20+ surveys given to nationally represented U.S. Adults.
Developed, moderated, and graded weekly, midterm and final assignments for 200+ undergraduate and graduate students.
Associate Editor, WebMD/Medscape Education, October 2016-July 2017
Formatted and edited PowerPoint slide decks for content and style for Medscape’s education website that is accessed by medical doctors worldwide.
Recreated statistical graphs from peer-reviewed medical journals for original PowerPoint decks.
Established statistical and scientific methodology practices for entire editorial team.
Quantitative Analysis
Online survey sampling and design, programming, and implementation
Online and Lab-based experimental and quasi-experimental sampling and design, programming, and implementation
Behavioral data analysis
Causal inference
Multivariate analysis
Probability
Significance testing
Programming Languages
R (GNU S)
R-Studio
Qualtrics (XM, 360, and Dashboard design)
LaTeX
Python
HTML
JavaScript
WordPress
Microsoft Office
Adobe Creative Suites
Certification
Human Research - Social-Behavioral-Educational Researchers Certificate at CITI Program
Responsible Conduct of Research - Social and Behavioral Responsible Conduct of Research Course Certificate at CITI Program
Conflict of Interest Course - Conflict of Interest in Research Course Certificate at CITI Program
Research Experience