Experience

UMass Donahue Institute

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Research Analyst

  • Feb 2022 - Present

  Currently, I work as a senior research analyst on two state-funded education projects, where I am responsible for the following: - engaging in high-level statistical modeling of a multi-level, panel dataset concerning educational outcomes among college students - managing and regularly updating five separate Tableau dashboards containing a wide variety of educational information and outcomes - producing descriptive statistics and packaging them in a easily readable format - producing charts and figures that readily display complex information suitable for state agencies - writing high quality program evaluation reports designed for a state agency audience - maintaining a high level of expertise in SPSS, Stata, Tableau, and Excel - aiding in the creation and dissemination of a qualitative survey - routinely engaging in client communication - responding promptly to client needs Show less



UMass-Amherst Department of Sociology

• • Aug 2015 - Present

  Comparative Organization Inequality Network (COIN):- Coordinator: Donald Tomaskovic-Devey- A 15-country, thirty researcher project using large-scale administrative data.- https://www.umass.edu/coin/- Lead Research Assistant 2015-2018 (affiliated with the project afterwards), responsible for: o Writing key code (Stata) for multiple projects o Assisting with code other projects o Gathering country-specific information on multiple topics o Creating a navigable “data dictionary” containing relevant country information o Writing multiple research papers (some as first/sole author, others as co-author) o Organizing data across multiple projects o creating tables, graphs, and figures of descriptive statistics or modeling results.Precarity in the Public Sector- PI: Jasmine Kerrissey - Examining the spread of precarious employment (low-wage jobs, part-time work, high-turnover workplaces) across the public sector.- Using the State and Local Government Information (EEO-4) forms collected by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.- Lead Research Assistant 2019-, responsible for: o Managing the EEO-4 database (cleaning, creating new variables, etc.) o Producing easily digestible and informative descriptive statistics o Creation of a panel dataset across multiple years of the EEO-4 data o Converting organization data to person-job level format o Collection of secondary data from multiple other datasets o Writing code for statistical models (Stata) o Writing research papers Show less

• • Aug 2013 - Present



Harvard Kennedy School

• United States
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Jun 2021 - Feb 2022

  - PIs: Daniel Schneider (Harvard Kennedy School) and Kristen Harknett (UC-San Francisco) - Part of the wider Shift Project (https://shift.hks.harvard.edu/) - Randomized experiment involving the introduction of various kinds of “self-scheduling” programs into IKEA stores. o Introduction of easy shift-swapping and open shifts between employees, updating and solidifying availability a month or more in advance, letting employees and managers work out schedules together - Some stores will experience the roll-out of these programs over a 6ish-month period. Others will function as controls. We will measure the impact of these programs on a range of items that affect employees (e.g. effects on mental/physical health, sleep quality, work/life conflicts, etc.) and business concerns of IKEA stores (e.g. productivity rates, turnover/absenteeism, job/organizational commitment, etc.) - Data consists of linked employer-employee-shift/time-clock data across all IKEA stores located in the United States (international data may come later) - Postdoc Researcher 2021-, responsible for: o Managing, cleaning, and analyzing data collected from IKEA o Mixture of administrative, time-clock, and survey data o Production of scholarly articles, impact reports (for IKEA and external parties), policy briefs. o Production of scholarly articles using data from the wider Shift Project o Linked-employer-employee dataset of 100+ retail firms, collected roughly in the period 2016- present. Data were collected by targeting employees of specific large, retail firms using Facebook ads. Show less



University of Massachusetts Amherst

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Statistics Lab Instructor

  • Sep 2014 - May 2015

  -Teaching SPSS statistical software to undergraduate students -Tying course material to lab sessions -Grading and providing feedback on homework and tests -Holding individual meetings with students struggling with assignments -Teaching SPSS statistical software to undergraduate students -Tying course material to lab sessions -Grading and providing feedback on homework and tests -Holding individual meetings with students struggling with assignments