Responsibilities include:

• Developing an MVP of a tool to help students rapidly conceptualize and learn new information
• User testing and feedback
• Participant in Y-Combinator’s Startup School

Responsibilities include:

• Developing several creative solutions to facilitate data reporting and analysis on HR personnel data, including: 1) a “Github-for-Excel” application that allows a team to work on the same Excel document on the shared drive together, and 2) a combination of SQL queries and Excel macros to extract more useful and pivot-able data from our HRIS legacy application
• Updated the city’s compensation classification structure as compared to other cities in the region
• Assisting the Director of Human Resources with data analysis and forecasting of various salary-related scenarios

Experiences included:

• Served as lead developer of a brand new budget application to streamline the budget development process, incorporating multiple APIs to pull financial data from our finance software and HR data from our HRIS software, converting the data to budget-specific categories, and outputting to redesigned Excel templates and PDFs. Partnered with our IT and marketing departments to successfully create and deliver ahead of schedule an application that made the budget process 10x faster, more accurate, and producing a budget document that looked better than ever, with a complete, modern redesign.
  
  See the FY19 Budget Document for the product of this new application, in comparison to the FY18 Budget Document for the previous and older version that had been produced by manually updating many spreadsheets, year after year.
  
  
• Produced a yearly budget document for the city of Hampton, with over $420 million in the general fund, helping to manage the budgets of multiple departments.
• In partnership with the Director of Budget and Strategic Initiatives and the Director of Finance, built yearly expenditure and revenue forecasts for the general fund

Experiences included:

• Published an article on corporate governance, contrasting the German and American models and suggesting a better way forward: The Directorist Model of Corporate Governance: Why a Dual Board Structure for Public Corporations Is Good for Shareholders, Entrepreneurs, Employees, Capitalism, and Society.
• Won the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for work with Dr. Berhanu Abegaz on building macroeconomic models using World Bank data for his book Industrial Development in Africa
• Served as a Presidential Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress
• Spent two summer months as an intern in South Africa, working with victims of apartheid in their struggle to deal with a painful past while also adapting to a fast changing, globalized nation

Experiences included:

• Published the company’s highest grossing report two years in a row: an in-depth breakdown of the virtual goods industry, encapsulating both social networking platforms and online games. The report included a breakdown of all the main competitors (their unique advantages, revenue models, subscription sizes, and revenues), a five-year forecast of the subscription and total revenues of the industry, and some qualitative insights on what the key challenges will be for participants in this industry.
• Maintained and produced the quarterly broadband report, which included satisfying major customers and industry players like Cisco Systems, Aruba Networks, and Netgear.