Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

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Government Resource Center at The Ohio State University

Shiny Web App Developer August 2024-Present

  • Develop Shiny web apps

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Wisconsin Department of Health Services

IS Business Automation Specialist June 2023 - August 2024

  • Automated DHS’s org charts for 7,000+ employees, saving 60 hours annually
  • Serve as liaison for remote work policy by determining which employees meet criteria for remote work through combining multiple unclean data sources

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Wisconsin Department of Transportation

Highway Safety Data Analyst May 2019 - June 2023

  • Developed an R package that makes data pulls and data analysis much easier inside an R environment, slashing time spent fulfilling data requests into a matter of minutes

  • Wrote a parameterized R Markdown to fully automate the creation of 72 crash data county profiles

  • Wrote code to call an API to collect extensive court case data then flattening JSON file, cleaning data, and running analysis

  • Learned Shiny to develop a Crash Dashboard with multi-selection capabilities, interactive charts, and a dynamic map

  • Developed a Shiny dashboard to compare quarterly crash trends

  • Improved relationship between WisDOT and UW by establishing a set of uniform queries used for data pulls and crash analysis

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Mandli Communications

Data Processor Dec 2016 - May 2019

  • Analyze, classify, and process LiDAR data maintaining above average speed, occasionally perform quality control

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Wisconsin Department of Transportation

Traffic Forecaster (Part-time) Feb 2014 – June 2018

  • Completed statewide traffic forecast requests using travel demand models and regression analysis of historical counts
  • Provided expertise on completed forecast requests to MPOs, DOT regions and consultants
  • Conducted research and learned VBA to develop a macro-enabled Excel worksheet, improving and streamlining the department’s method to forecast turning movement counts

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Wisconsin Department of Transportation

Bicycle and Pedestrian Intern (Part-time) Mar 2015 – July 2015

  • Learned ADA standards in order to digitize and assess statewide curb ramps and sidewalks in ArcMap
  • Learned about bike/pedestrian safety and design and the benefits of complete streets through five day-long courses

Awards

  • 2022 Data Science Olympian: Collaborated with a team to compete in a Kaggle Challenge with Women in Big Data (WiBD)
  • WisDOT Crash Dashboard won runner-up under Interactive Map category: 2021 Wisconsin Land Information Association map contest. View the project.

Education

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University of Wisconsin - Madison

Master of Science 2012 - 2014

  • Urban and Regional Planning
  • Certificate in Transportation Management and Policy

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University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

Bachelors of Science 2006 - 2010

  • Geography (GIS) and Urban Planning