Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
Community Informatics Lab • May 2023 - Present
GMU Department of Information Sciences and Technology
Fairfax, Virginia
- Lead researcher on state-funded project for Virginia Board for People with Disabilities (VBPD) to understand the fragmentation of disability service information
- Conducting interviews with various disability providers using snowball sampling; including coordinating ASL communication & managing 50+ transcriptions
- Qualitative data coding and analysis of interviews and surveys in Excel and Atlas TI to identify information gaps
Business Intelligence Analyst
Learning Sciences International • April 2019 - April 2022
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
- Built and managed 30+ user-facing KPI dashboards embedded in the application environments from proof-of-concept stage to production deployment, which were used to market the strength of the tool and help educators with academic success
- Process Efficiency: Reduced the manual run time of an internal process for a large school district from 8 hours per week to 10 minutes per month
- Wrote SQL queries for large databases (Postgres, Redshift, Snowflake) and employed BI Tools (Power BI, Sisense) to analyze datasets and create actionable reports for internal and external userbase
- Established survey/feedback and user engagement dashboards for use by management, SMEs, product owners, support and sales teams
- Designed data models with engineers and stakeholders to fit reporting requirements
- Served as liaison and between software developers, education consultants, and end-users
Systems Analyst Intern
Problem Solutions Software • April 2018 - March 2019
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
- UI/UX Portfolio Samples PDF
- Employed UI/UX design, rapid prototyping methods, and requirements elicitation techniques to software solutions for commercial and government clients
- Prepared business documentation – product backlogs, proposals, roadmaps, diagrams, POA&Ms
- Assisted in the QA Testing of applications during development
Marketing Intern
Cambria County Transit Authority (CamTran) • May 2017 - August 2017
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
- Designed flyers, brochures, signage, and social media posts and giveaways
- Drafted company documents, press releases, articles, and fundraising letters
- Planned events to boost ridership and interest for the Johnstown Inclined Plane