Nov 2023 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Lead a team of researchers in People Insights:
• Conducting rigorous in-house research to understand the employee experience
• Manage the employee lifecycle survey program
• Partner with stakeholders in the business and within HR to create impactful research that drives decision making

Mar 2023 – Nov 2023 · 8 mos

• Working on the revamp of the company-wide employee survey:
• Conduct research to understand team effectiveness and the employee experience at all levels of the organization, with a focus on driving action
• Partner with stakeholders to understand how data can be leveraged to drive decision making

Jul 2022 – Mar 2023 · 8 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

• Lead a team of diverse social scientists as part of the Product organization
• Create a strategic vision for the team, aligned with Product team goals
• Manage multiple projects with different deadlines, stakeholders, and dependencies
• Improve team processes to drive impact through research

Aug 2021 – Jul 2022 · 11 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

• Lead a team of Industrial/Organizational psychologists as part of the Product organization
• Develop a scalable process to understand job types for the product, based on job analysis methods, increasing the number of available job types by 2.5x
• Create a strategic vision for workforce research with a cross-functional team
• Design and conduct original research to inform how the product will adapt to different job types
• Work with executives at customer organizations to understand their needs and communicate the value of the product

Jun 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pleasanton, California, United States

• Lead a cross-functional project team to launch the Peakon survey across Workday
• Responsible for employee listening program, including weekly sentiment survey strategy and deliverables
• Lead cross-functional project team for all survey dashboards and reporting
• Lead COVID-19 survey strategy to inform employee support programs and back-to-office planning
• Manage large-scale research projects and statistical analysis including item development, and nudging employees to improve career development
• Work with executive stakeholders to use employee research to answer key business questions and develop employee programs

Sep 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Present research findings to executive-level clients
• Work with executive-level clients to identify opportunities for behavioral change in their organizations and provide recommendations
• Design research studies to understand behavioral change across various businesses and work contexts
• Create behavioral interventions for employees at different levels, tailored to different industries
• Perform literature reviews to identify science-backed recommendations to improve workplace behaviors

Sep 2014 – Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Greater Boston Area

• Assist in the implementation of predictive turnover models
• Partner with stakeholders to develop and measure turnover interventions
• Investigate the relationship between employee engagement and key business metrics
• Complete exploratory research projects within Talent Analytics
• Co-Lead Professionalism and Ethics group in the Data Science Program Group, developing best practices around data science at Liberty
• Facilitate research team article group and brownbag discussions monthly

Jan 2014 – Sep 2014 · 8 mos · Norfolk, VA

• In association with the Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS).
• Developing a selection system for standardized patients.
• Creating a behavioral checklist for standardized patients using job analysis techniques.
• Identifying key predictors of job performance from the literature and job analysis methods.

Jun 2013 – Aug 2013 · 2 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Performed data analysis for measure development
• Produced item-level statistics to aid in developing selection instruments
• Performed analyses to determine validity of selection instruments
• Performed data analysis for validation purposes
• Cleaned and prepared data
• Investigated relationships between relevant selection predictors and criteria
• Developed items for selection measures
• Wrote personality and cognitive ability items for inclusion in selection instruments
• Developed forms for selection system test batteries
• Selected items for inclusion in test forms based on relevant statistics
• Chose forms for inclusion in batteries based on item, passage and average form-level statistics and descriptives
• Developed instructions for test-takes
• Performed literature searches
• Reviewed relevant literature to identify novel techniques and best practices
• Provided concise recommendations from current literature
• Wrote portions of internal technical reports
• Drafted reports on analyses and form development

Sep 2007 – Jun 2008 · 9 mos · University Park, PA

• The Center for Language Science.
• Supervisors: Dr. Judy Kroll, Dr. Paola (Giuli) Dussias, Dr. Chip Gerfen and Dr. Pilar Piñar.
• Worked on the Gallaudet bilingualism studies.
• Collected data from subjects using E-Prime.
• Trained to run subjects on eye-tracking equipment.
• Cleaned data.
• Recruited and scheduled participants.