Experience

Virginia Tech Engineering Education

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2019 - Present

  Blacksburg, Virginia, United States • Collaborated with researchers on NSF grant teams, including VT-NETS, SEEK, and DEEP-lab. • Analyzed quantitative data utilizing advanced quantitative methods on undergraduate students, and transfer students' pathways data. • Analyzed and interpreted five large data sets, resulting in five written publications and presentations, multiple dashboards, visualizations, and over 50 reports for +10 member research teams. • Implemented SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) statistical… Show more • Collaborated with researchers on NSF grant teams, including VT-NETS, SEEK, and DEEP-lab. • Analyzed quantitative data utilizing advanced quantitative methods on undergraduate students, and transfer students' pathways data. • Analyzed and interpreted five large data sets, resulting in five written publications and presentations, multiple dashboards, visualizations, and over 50 reports for +10 member research teams. • Implemented SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) statistical technique to explore underlying relationships in undergraduate students' perceptions of support using SAS and AMOS. • Performed HLM (Hierarchical Linear Modeling) on clustered data regarding students' motivation using WHLM and SPSS. • Assisted the engineering department by developing a dashboard for assessing students' data using Tableau. • Analyzed qualitative data collected from faculty and student focus groups and assisted in developing an administrative report. Show less



Virginia Tech

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Analyst Specialist

  • May 2019 - Present

  Blacksburg, Virginia, United States • Developed new statistical methodologies for analyzing 5 years of multidimensional faculty needs assessment data, utilizing Python, SPSS, and Tableau. • Designed a survey for course evaluation of +500 faculty professional development workshops. • Primary statistician in a collaborative project with the senior director and software developers and 6 software developers to develop the Learning System dashboard in University DataCommons. • Actively managed and maintained data collection… Show more • Developed new statistical methodologies for analyzing 5 years of multidimensional faculty needs assessment data, utilizing Python, SPSS, and Tableau. • Designed a survey for course evaluation of +500 faculty professional development workshops. • Primary statistician in a collaborative project with the senior director and software developers and 6 software developers to develop the Learning System dashboard in University DataCommons. • Actively managed and maintained data collection process for +500 courses over 5 years. • Created surveys and automated survey distribution in QuestionPro and Qualtrics. • Responsible for data collection, data manipulation, and data cleaning using SQL, Python, and SPSS. • Built out multiple dashboards and visualization using Tableau Prep and Tableau from the group to automate +200 administrative and mid-level reports resulting in saving 8 hours of labor per week. • Trained 3 new staff in dashboard development and data manipulation. • Generated reports by developing measurement solutions and analyzing outcomes using Python, IRTpro, and jMetrik. Show less