Experience

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  Indeed

  • United States
  • Technology, Information and Internet
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Director, People Science

    • Apr 2024 - Present

    - Develop methodologies and reproducible workflows to deliver prospective and retrospective demographic equity analysis of compensation programs, performance evaluation systems, and promotion processes.- Iterating towards self service tools for projecting headcount and workforce representation and comparing results under different scenarios for hiring and attrition. The outputs of these models are used to assess the potential impact of efforts to improve retention and equitable hiring.- Deliver end to end support for high performance bonus programs including budget modeling, criteria selection, and interactive tooling.- Capture employee sentiment at several touch points throughout the employee lifecyle and position our Survey Scientists as experts who provide survey support as a service to the business and in doing so maintain interoperability of our survey data, protect confidentiality and employee trust, and manage survey fatigue.

  • Manager, People Science

    • Apr 2022 - Jun 2024

    - Conduct and communicate equity analyses, adverse impact assessments, and regression decomposition studies for compensation (base pay, bonuses, RSUs) and employment events, and partnered with Legal to develop guardrails for responsible use of results communicated to SLT.- Developed a workforce projection tool using Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation that enables prediction under intervention and allows program owners to compare and contrast likely impact of potential initiatives. Presented to members of the board of our parent company.- Designed and am delivering an end-to-end analysis plan from a reproducible RMarkdown and RShiny workflow to accompany a new global performance enablement process including real-time insights during the evaluation period. Built flexibly to accompany heterogeneity in timelines and variation across business units.- Used panel data econometrics techniques to estimate interviewer influence in interview loops and outliers in performance evaluations to guide norming and training efforts.- Redesigned our employee survey strategy to ensure scalable service to the business, reduce respondent burden, and achieve interoperability of surveys for better insights and easier compliance with GDPR. Reduced our core engagement survey from over 50 questions to 14 core questions with rotating opt-in modules and introduced the ability for employees to suggest survey topics.- Used dynamic programming to inform budgeting and program design for high performance bonuses.- SME for reproducible research pipelines and deployment using RShiny, RMarkdown and Posit Connect.- Resident combatant of p-hacking and champion of nuanced use of inferential statistics in keeping with American Statistical Association guidance. Created a self-service rshiny application aimed to serve users without statistical training and enable simple Chi-Square and Fischers Exact tests with visualizations and non-technical explanations to accompany pivot tables they create.

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  University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

  • La Crosse, WI

  • Professor of Economics

    • Aug 2021 - May 2022
    • La Crosse, WI

    • Funded by Social Security Administration as PI on an interdisciplinary project to study the availability of long-term care facilities in local communities as a function of the local demographic and racial landscape using modelling techniques adapted from landscape ecology.• Taught business students to access governmental data sources for analyzing local labor markets and studying the pandemic-related worker shortage; their final exam was a webinar presentation in collaboration with the La Crosse Area Chamber of Commerce.• Chairing the search for a new dean of the College of Business Administration and served on a committee to successfully hire two new tenure track assistant professors of economics.• Studying health insurance plan choices using both primary data collected with colleague TJ Brooks and insurance claims for Wisconsin state employees.

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  University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Remote

  • Associate Director, Center for Financial Security Retirement and Disability Research Center

    • Oct 2019 - May 2022
    • Remote

    • Shared responsibility for recruiting and mentoring 15-20 projects annually based on current Social Security Administration research priorities, with budgets totaling ~$2 million.• Design and lead training programs for early career scholars to build a high-quality pipeline of retirement and disability researchers and connect underrepresented scholars with funding opportunities.• Author of the new Visualizing Vulnerability series aimed at disseminating impactful data stories in interactive visualizations to share the center's existing work and inspire new projects.• Center Director and Associate Directors are full-time regular faculty. This position was held while I was an Associate Professor and promoted to Full Professor at University of Wisconsin La Crosse through a subcontract with our Sponsored Research Office.

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  University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

  • La Crosse, Wisconsin

  • Associate Professor Of Economics

    • Aug 2017 - May 2021
    • La Crosse, Wisconsin

    • Led a large scale curriculum redesign project, informed by focus groups with area employers, to incorporate data analysis in Excel, Tableau and RStudio into a core business course for all business majors.• Conducted an initial pilot program matching student teams with industry professionals for "coaching" on their data presentation skills using a common case study on workforce aging that I authored, then led a successful college-wide implementation.• Published two peer-reviewed articles and presented three more at national conferences that examine questions about workforce aging and policies that extend working life using matched survey and administrative data from Germany, supported by funding from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation.• Received two grants from the Social Security Administration to begin a new program of research on long-term care and aging in place. My second project was one of two (out of 70) named as "especially informative and relevant to SSA's work" by Acing Commissioner Kilolo Kijakazi at the 2021 Retirement and Disability Research Consortium annual meeting.• Planned, built and delivered a series of hybrid workshops for working professionals wishing to learn to use RStudio, funded by the Swenson Baier Fellowship and offered at no cost to participants. Achieved a 100% Net Promoter Score.• Received the Provost's Eagle Teaching Award.

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  University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Assistant Professor

    • Aug 2013 - Jun 2017

    • Tenure-track academic role (50% teaching, 30% research, 20% service) teaching survey design, statistics, data visualization and project management to business students and a course in decision making and organizational behavior to MBA students.• Led course-embedded research projects with 25 area organizations including end-to-end survey research projects for Congressman Ron Kind, the Trempealeau County Fair Board, the Whitehall Area Chamber of Commerce, and two local school districts plus many small businesses. • Published papers in top-tier health economics and public health journals on screening for colorectal cancer.• Co-PI for a second major grant from the Alfrend P. Sloan Foundation's Working Longer program to continue studying workforce aging in Germany.

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor

    • May 2011 - Aug 2013

    • Relocated to follow a job opportunity for my husband and worked remotely.• Self-funded through grants, I received a courtesy appointment at UWL to continue my research.• Raised two tiny humans.

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  Michigan State University

  • Visiting Assistant Professor

    • Aug 2008 - Jun 2011

    • Taught applied statistics and labor economics to Masters of Human Resources and Labor Relations students, who were a mix of full-time students and working professionals. • Launched a project using matched employer-employee data to study retirement behavior and the propensity to work beyond normal retirement age, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Working Longer Program.• Recognized by the Student Parent Resource Center for my support of students with caregiving responsibilities.