Experience

Kaplan Professional

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Data Analyst

  • Aug 2017 - Present

  Managing the creation and improvement of the psychometrics item and test analyses reports • Planning, diagramming, and documenting the pipelines to translate raw learner data into aggregate item- and test- level statistics • Working with data engineering to implement and run both pipelines on Kaplan Professional’s AWS Redshift cluster • Working with business analytics to generate Tableau reports from the output Redshift tables Overseeing the analytics powering the Learner Dashboard, or ‘At-Risk’ System, which tracks and predicts student risk of failing courses and professional licensing exams • Working with data engineering, UI/UX, product, and content teams to roll-out the At-Risk systems to multiple Professional product lines (Securities, Insurance, CFA, CFP) • Developing a logistic regression-based risk scoring system and evaluating this method relative to the current in-house method of scoring risk • Monitoring the performance and health of the At-Risk system over time and refreshing risk thresholds as necessary Working with product line managers and psychometricians to analyze course structure and improve course content Show less



The University of Chicago

• United States
• Education Administration Programs

• Data Analyst

  • Apr 2011 - Jul 2017

  Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience - Clinical Neuroscience & Psychopharmacology Research Unit (CNPRU) • Analyzed functional MRI time-series data using general linear modeling • Set up data preprocessing pipelines for structural, functional, and diffusion tensor neuroimaging data • Automated the cleaning and maintenance of neuroimaging datasets on UChicago’s supercomputer • Researched and implemented neuroimaging techniques from the current literature • Met weekly with and reported to four primary investigators about their analytics goals and results • Wrote methods and results sections of paper and poster publications • Programmed study tasks based on experimental design specification • Automated data extraction from behavioral experiments’ output logfiles • Trained staff on neuroimaging analyses as well as research assistant lab functionality Show less