Head of learning science technologies — Infinite Campus student information system

2019 - Current

• Leads culture of large-scale innovative use of education data for learning science. Advocates possibilities of learning science and learning engineering to build transformative technologies at Infinite Campus.
• Product development: plans product roadmaps with engineering managers and company leadership.
• Business development:
  • Creates business plans to support education researchers.
  • Builds partnerships with research organizations and education agencies to support visiting scholarship and external research.
  • Raised $800,000 of external funding to embed post-doctoral researchers at Infinite Campus to rapidly prototype state-of-the-art education technology and publish results.
  • Collaborates with researchers on grant applications.

Product manager

2019

• Data science product manager for Campus Analytics Suite, which includes a large machine-learned school dropout early warning system, data warehousing, data quality, and visualization tools.
• Planned the strategy for bringing education data analysis tools to market, including competitive intelligence and customer communication, roadmaps, funding and revenue projections, and new market discovery.
• Envisioned, planned, and fundraised for Infinite Campus's cloud-based research-infrastructure-as-a-service products and services, including coordination between major state agencies, universities, and school districts.
• Advised CEO and executive team, wrote policy proposals, and represented the company to external stakeholders.

Data scientist

2016 - 2019

• Designed and implemented machine-learned school dropout early warning system for millions of K-12 students nationwide. Wrote predictive system bias detection and mitigation.
• Wrote automated pipelines to manage data preparation, model building, evaluation, and user experience. Used extract-transform-load (ETL) practices to combine and clean data from multiple sources.
• Explored data and created hypotheses, then wrote experiments to test them, often in the form of predictive models.
• Communicated results in a productionized customer-facing endpoint, as a prototype using a tool like R and Shiny, or in presentations or written documents.

R, SQL, Python

Software engineer

2015-2016

• Developed software in Java and SQL, with some additional work in JavaScript, XML, CSS, and Apache FOP.
• Wrote automated tests. Implemented code to business requirements and set up testing sites for quality assurance.
• Promoted to data scientist, a new role at Infinite Campus equivalent to senior software engineer and team technical lead.

Java, SQL, XSL/FO

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Recommender systems consultant — employer confidential (among largest in college search industry)

2015

• Advised leadership team on personalized college search technology.
• Prototyped recommender systems.

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Software engineering Ph.D. intern — Google Now (now Google Assistant)

Summer 2014

• Designed and implemented location-based recommendation software extending Google Maps and Assistant.
• Deployed application to data centers.

C++, Python, JavaScript

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Recommender systems consultant — Get Schooled

2014

• Advised leadership team on personalized college and career readiness systems.

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Technical product manager — PossibilityU

2011-2013

• Defined and prioritized the product roadmap and managed the implementation team. Full responsibility for the college recommender system.
• Managed stakeholder collaboration including school administrators, families, student services staff, other vendors, and internal people and processes.

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Entrepreneur, software engineer, product manager — College Recommender

2011

• Envisioned and built college and career readiness software to infer college search preferences and create personalized recommendations.
• Sold the technology to PossibilityU in an aquisition-and-hire.

Scholarship program staff — National Merit Scholarship Corporation

2009—2011

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Admission counselor — Valparaiso University

2008—2009

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International office intern — Reutlingen University

2007—2008

Princeton University

• Education Research Section (2020)

American Educational Research Association

• Annual meeting (2020)

Nevada Department of Education

• State superintendent's cabinet (2020)
• State superintendent's cabinet and legislative committee (2020)

Minnesota Department of Education

• Regional Centers of Excellence (2018)
• Early Indicator and Response System leadership (2018)

Kentucky Department of Education

• with Louisville Promise and United Community (2018)
• Directors of Pupil Personnel (2017)
• Persistence to Graduation statewide staff conference (2017)
• Chief officers (2016)
• Persistence to Graduation statewide staff conference (2016)

Infinite Campus

• All-hands (2019)
• Engineering all-hands (2018)
• for Senator Amy Klobuchar (2017)
• All-hands (2016)

Montana Office of Public Instruction

• Data Use Culture Conference (2019)

Bureau of Indian Education

• Native American Student Information System leadership (2018)

Mississippi Department of Education

• Office of Research and Analytics leadership (2018)

MinneAnalytics

• Data Tech (2019)
• Sports analytics conference (2017)

Google

• Google Now, now Assistant: global team (2014)