Rooney Holdings

I develop and deploy RLS-enabled semantic models and strategic reporting for multiple companies under a single holdings company responsible for over $15B worth of construction contracts.

Business Intelligence Developer

The EdUp Experience

I love being entrenched in conversations about education, and one way is to listen to a podcast that features those stakeholders—a better way is to be the one to ask the questions. As a podcast host, I get to ask the questions that spike my own curiosity, which drives the conversation towards something more meaningful. That open curiosity helps me understand others on a deeper level.

Podcast Guest Co-Host

Educators.Network

Engineered a job seeker database of 560+ academics seeking a combined minimum annual salary of $40M

Prototyped a searchable database of the dozens of original TikTok videos, reviewing users’ LinkedIn profiles

Created a website that generated 6.2K views with 3.6k unique visitors, with a 73% bounce rate, spending an average time of 2:03 over a period of 4 months

Collaborated with dozens of professional coaches, upskilling programs, recruiters, volunteers, & c-level company leaders to create high-quality content

Founder | Sole Proprietor & Operator

Builders + Backers

I'm collecting 5,000 essays to build an AI-powered teaching assistant, and I'm giving away $5,000 to get them. One essay is one entry to win $500! Fore more: www dot ProjectRhizome dot com.

Idea Accelerator Builder

The Persimmon Group

Created a new workflow and standardization of documentation using SharePoint and Scribe. Created change management documents meant to inspire the adoption of the new data lake as the internal source of truth using SharePoint and Canva.

Consultant

Freelance

Designed a complete guide for AGILE frameworks for accountants in local municipalities 

Lead a remote team of 7 geographically dispersed freelancers: 1 editor and 6 writers

Generated over $50,000 in annual revenue during peak (2014)

Freelance Writing & Content Development

Gaggle

Spearheaded and performed an analysis of 400+ suicide notes written by K12 students

Coordinated with IT during cloud migration, reducing the amount of data to be moved by 38%

Generated new, company-wide metric for marketing and sales, providing unparalleled insights: number of incidents per user

Independently created dashboard for leadership teams’ state government strategy, splicing customer data by voting districts

Connected internal data to external datasets like national educational statistics & voting districts

Business Data Analyst

Central Washington University

Constructed & piloted new developmental writing program, including 5 other instructors and a $100K budget

Developed a vision for new services offered, lead a team of 12-14 student-employees using work breakdown structure (WBS)

Managed the translation of all student-facing content into Spanish as well as several student-led UX research projects

Coordinator of Research and Innovation for Academic Success

Clemson University

Completed the PhD from start to finish in 2.7 years (national average is 8.2 years) with award-winning research & teaching

Designed & implemented grant writing workshop for other graduate students, helping 15 others earn more than $17k in funding

Advocated to program leadership to include an extra seat on the advisory board representing the needs of online students

Collaborated with industry data scientists on a natural language processing study of 300+ handbooks from America’s prisons

PhD Researcher | Writing Instructor

Utah State University

Constructed a study involving observations, surveys, and interviews; presented key findings at international conference

Collaborated to organize an undergraduate conference; mentored a panel of 4 students presenting key findings

Served on university strategic committee to select a common book to be read by the entire university

MA Researcher | Writing Instructor

When I was in fourth grade, I soaked toothpicks in cinnamon oil and sold them at school for 10 cents. My teacher couldn't have a bunch of kids running around with toothpicks, so they banned them during the morning announcements.

I saw opportunity: free brand awareness.

I broke the toothpicks in two, making them less conspicuous, and charged 25 cents for each half. I used the profits to buy a bucket of green army men.

That's what I do—I create solutions.

When I was in sales, I made an Excel spreadsheet to estimate my commissions. I showed it to the CEO after I found an error on my paycheck. Rather than get annoyed, he saw what I built, and soon most of the reps were using it too.

When I was a grad student, I knew how to write a grant to get funding. Others in my program weren't having the same success, so I built a workshop. The next round, we had 23 of 24 grants approved for more than $15,000.

When I was a teacher, I was spending far too much time per essay on grading. I developed a rubric that cut my grading from 40+ minutes down to 5 minutes while providing actionable feedback to students. Within six months, I was giving trainings to multiple faculty from multiple disciplines about how to use the rubric for their classes too.

When I was a data analyst, I learned that the CEO was planning on speaking to members of a state congress about his product. I combined external datasets with internal datasets to build a Tableau dashboard. It broke down the company data based on congressional voting districts.

I also built dashboards that allowed users to investigate 400+ suicide notes written by K12 students. 

I also built an interactive dashboard showing the total market value of the entire US market based on sales territories and pricing schemes. 

I also built an interactive dashboard that generated over 20,000,000 unique data points—all in full sentence format so they couldn't be misinterpreted. 

When I left my job as a data analyst, I used my new skills to build a new solution: databases that support job seekers. I create content on TikTok, so I built an interactive database of that content. People ask me if I know anyone for a job, so I built a database of job seekers with over 550+ academics. 

I love to create. I love creating content, and I love working with people. 

I know what to do with a product, & I know how to work with the experts who know it better than I do.

Now I get to use everything that I have become to leverage data and AI to answer questions about more than $2B worth of construction contracts.

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