Experience

• California State University, Long Beach

  Research lab manager

  Manage multiple lab studies and coordinate meeting schedules
  Train 15+ research assistants
  Resolve lab related problems
  Create and maintain lab website

• California State University, Long Beach

  Program assessment coordinator

  College of Engineering ABET accreditation
  -Edit and refine employer and alumni surveys
  -Update, coordinate, and evaluate data from online surveys
  -Coordinate with faculty and programmers for assessment

• California State University, Long Beach

  Grant coordinator

  Culturally connected communal goals: Latino and Native Americans in Biomedicine
  PI: Jessi Smith, Ph.D, & Dustin B. Thoman, Ph.D
  
  As the grant coordinator, I oversaw the logistics of participant recruitment and retention, data collection, and grant purchases.
  
  -Manage participant recruitment
  -Longitudinal tracking
  -Oversee online data collection
  -Coordinate grant purchases for 15 research labs

• California State University, Long Beach

  Project manager and researcher

  Project title: Stereotypes, interest, and persistence; Masters thesis project
  
  Designed a theory-driven lab study from the ground up to examine the effects of stereotype threat on experience of interest
  Pilot tested various different manipulations and surveys
  Trained five undergraduate research assistants to conduct experiment

• Amazon

  Research scientist | Global diversity & inclusion organization

  D&I subject matter expert:
  -Provide guidance and recommendation on D&I initiatives using internal and external research
  -Propose and conduct theoretically sound statistical analyses consistent with previous research in identity threat, implicit methods and unconscious bias, intergroup relations, and motivation to shape future D&I experiment
  
  Reproducible research:
  -Create Read-Me files and annotated R code for statistical analyses, including descriptive statistics, correlations, regression, and mixed effects modeling using large datasets
  -Automatically update results in Word/PDF/HTML using Markdown
  
  Methods consulting:
  -Consult with various line businesses to ensure sound experimental design and methods are used to accurately draw causal relations
  -Provide recommendations and guidance around psychometric properties of various employee experience surveys

• Amazon

  Research Scientist | AWS Region Management

  Research and analytical experience
  • Predictive modeling around AWS services.
  • Build program of research to understand resourcing and hiring mechanism.
  Survey methodology and validation
  • Build centralized collection mechanism to prioritize AWS products.
  • Consult with external teams to establish customer KPI’s.

• Amazon

  Research Scientist | Product Sampling

  Research and analytical experience
  -Conduct exploratory analysis of internal customer data to understand population level descriptive statistics
  -Model building and testing to identify causal relations
  
  Survey methodology and validation
  -Create and maintain the new customer survey to collect customer experience and perception of the sampling program
  -Analyze customer surveys to identify opportunities for program improvement and key business metrics

• Portland State University

  Lecturer

  Research methods in behavioral sciences lecturer
  
  Taught 2 section of 30+ undergraduate students in research methods topics, including:
  -Study design
  -Sampling
  -Reliability and validity
  -Descriptive and univariate analyses
  -Scientific writing

• Portland State University

  Project manager and researcher

  Project title: Domain identification, interest, and persistence study
  
  Designed and administered online survey (via Qualtrics) to capture student motivational experiences
  Established relationships with faculty members from multiple departments to recruit over 300 college students
  Study results accepted for national conference poster presentation (Society for Personality and Social Psychology, SPSP annual conference, San Antonio, TX, January 2017)