Professional Resume

EXPERIENCE

Senior Research Analyst

AccessLex Institute

December 2022 – July 2026

Duties: Manage analytics projects from end-to-end, apply advanced statistical methods to develop actionable insights for non-technical and technical stakeholders, deliver data-informed recommendations to partner institutions, create data visualizations and public facing data dashboards, deliver research reports and presentations, develop and deploy surveys, continuing education in advanced statistical techniques

Select accomplishments: Delivered eight major research reports, independently directed conceptualization of three major AccessLex grant-funded analysis projects, trained three junior analysts, presented data at 10+ professional events nationwide

Senior Data Analyst

University of Kentucky

August 2021 – December 2022

Duties: Designed and conducted experiments, analyzed experimental and observational data, mentored undergraduate and graduate students, taught college-level courses on statistics and research methods, handled participant payments and lab reimbursements, completed IRB applications and approvals

Select accomplishments: Delivered 10+ research reports and 10+ research presentations, taught introductory statistics to 80+ novice students, taught lab sessions on research methods to 100+ students

Data Analyst (Summer Contract)

Center for Research on Violence Against Women

May 2021 – August 2021

Duties: Analyzed large institutional data sets (10,000+ participants) regarding college students’ attitudes toward campus safety, significantly contributed to written research reports and presentations

Data Analyst

University of Kentucky

August 2019 – May 2021

Duties: Designed and conducted experiments, analyzed research data, handled participant payments and lab reimbursements

Member Services Advisor

YMCA of the North

August 2018 – August 2019

Duties: Analyzed customer satisfaction survey data, created and delivered presentations on customer insights data to internal stakeholders, trained five new employees, co-managed a team of 15 people

Research Assistant

Metropolitan State University

August 2017 – May 2019

Duties: Advised and supervised 10+ college students on conducting their own original and independent research projects

EDUCATION

Master of Science (M.S.) in Experimental Psychology

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Allied areas: Statistics, College Teaching and Learning

Select accomplishments: Promoted to doctoral candidacy (ABD), Gunto Outstanding Social Psychology Student of the Year

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Psychology

Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, MN

Select accomplishments: Graduation with Distinction in Research, Magna cum Laude, Psi Chi International Honor Society

Associate of Science (A.S.) in Business Management

Minneapolis College, Minneapolis, MN

SKILLS

Quantitative data analysis: basic hypothesis testing (e.g., t-tests and ANOVA), simple regression and predictive techniques (e.g., linear and logistic regression), advanced regression techniques (e.g., latent growth curve modeling, multi-level modeling, structural equation modeling), advanced causal inference techniques (e.g., machine learning, matching and weighting), and econometric analysis (e.g., differences-in-differences)

Statistics and analysis: R/R Studio, SPSS and AMOS, SAS, MPlus, MATLAB, Microsoft Excel and Access, SQL

Data visualization and dashboards: R/R Studio, Power BI, Data Wrapper, Excel, Shiny

Survey response collection: Qualtrics, Survey Monkey, Google Forms, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Cloud Research

Communication: Public speaking, instruction and training, written research reports, research presentations to technical and non-technical audiences

Problem solving: Experimental research design (including A/B testing), time management and task prioritization, basic troubleshooting

Administrative: Microsoft Office Suite (including Project/Planner, Loop, and Power Automate), Google Office Suite, Zoom, Teams, Salesforce, Foundant