EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Data scientist/analyst with a MA in International Affairs, National Security and Diplomacy from the Texas A&M Bush School of Government and Public Service. Currently work at RTI for a US government client creating advanced data visualizations and analysis. Worked on data science projects from natural language processing to automation to performance metrics to computer vision.

Programming Languages /Software:

Python (8 years), SQL and VizQL (8 years), R (6 months), html (4 years)

Tableau (8 years), other assorted data viz software/tech (10 years), Microsoft Office Suite (15+ years)

Certificates:

Tableau Desktop Specialist Certification, Microsoft Azure Data Scientist Associate, WebAge Prompt Engineering, Certified Data Scientist Level 1 (CDS1) from General Assembly, PADI Certified SCUBA diver

JOB EXPERIENCE DETAILS

RTI LLC Consulting, Senior Tableau Developer 07/2024 – Present

• Create data visualizations and analysis for a US government client, primarily financial and employee data
• Propose and model new processes for data analysis and metric creation

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., Associate 01/2019 – 06/2024

• Worked on various contracts for US government clients.
• I managed employees as a Career Manager and Job Leader. I was a member of my account’s Interview team and interviewed candidates. I gave presentations at the firm’s NGA account data science community of practice on data science topics of interest. I was on the Tableau/Data Visualization team and maintained and improved the Capture Tableau dashboards for Intelligence Account. Placed in the top 3 teams in firm’s Women in Data Science (WiDS) competition for NLP keyword creator for scientific papers. Was awarded top showcased data visualization twice in firm-wide Tableau “BAMM” contest.
• I created aggregate characterizations of documents using python programming. Created visualizations, wrote analysis, created placemats/print outs, and gave presentations on findings, methodology, and results. Created performance metric dashboards with automatically updating/emailed dashboards. Natural Language Processing, including a Collective Ingenuity Gold Award for my work on Alchemist, a project tagging and ranking intelligence documents for IC wide performance assessments to reduce the time and effort spent by analysts.
• Designed and executed experiments for infrequent and low shot approaches for overhead imagery. Avenues of research include self-supervised methods, generative adversarial approaches for domain transfer with synthetic imagery, methods for reducing supervision cost through alternative annotations. Researched and ran experiments for general detector performance in overhead imagery to improve computer vision capabilities. Deputy pod lead for around 10 teams, help collect and edit deliverables such as PSRs and Transition Notebooks.
• Was awarded the Collective Ingenuity Platinum Award for automating big data pulls by creating SQL queries, HIVE workflows, and coordinators for indexes with millions of records, cleaned data for more efficient usage. Led meetings with team to discuss and document best practices.

KeyW, Intelligence Analyst (Terrorist Screening Center) 06/2018 – 01/2019

• Assessed and nominated individuals for terrorist watch listing
• Utilized government databases and intelligence to assess eligibility and update information

General Dynamics, Background Investigator 08/2017 – 06/2018

• Interviewed individuals for clearance process
• Wrote and analyzed information from diverse sources to summarize clearance eligibility

American Councils for International Education, Data Entry Specialist 03/2017 – 07/2017

• Entered and processed information for State Department public diplomacy initiatives

Texas A&M and SOUTHCOM, Graduate Student 12/2015 – 06/2016

• Capstone project for SOUTHCOM, “Return on Security Cooperation Investment in the Western Hemisphere”, presented findings to SOUTHCOM senior staff at headquarters in Miami
• Quantitative and qualitative research project, I created metrics for measuring the effectiveness of security cooperation operations relative to stated objectives using data science

EDUCATION

MA in International Affairs: National Security and Diplomacy with concentrations in Intelligence as an Instrument of Statecraft, International Politics and Grand Strategy, American Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, Europe, Texas A&M University Bush School of Government and Public Service, May 2016

• A MA program from faculty, including ambassadors and national security professionals as well as academics, for students who plan to pursue a career in public service and intelligence
• Awarded George and Barbara Bush Fellowship, a merit based full scholarship
• Awarded Medal of Excellence for completion of Dean’s Leadership, Community Engagement, and Writing certificates
• Awarded merit-based Scowcroft Student Language Immersion Grant and Bush School Language Immersion Scholarship
• Studied Geopolitics and Mediterranean Security at Marconi University in Italy
• Studied International Development and Japanese at Sophia University in Japan

BA in Political Science and International Studies (concentration on non-state actors use of the internet), Denison University, May 2014

• National Merit Scholar
• Paschal Carter Scholar, a merit scholarship valued at $150,000 over four years
• Political Science Departmental Fellows, for excellence in Political Science
• Awarded the Silver Intercultural Leadership Award for extracurricular leadership