Resume (Curriculum Vitae)

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Economics, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN (2021)

• M.A. Economics, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN (2019)

• B.S. Economics, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN (2017)

WORK HISTORY

Manager of Grants and Financial Analyst, Tennessee Department of Education (August 2023 - Present)

• Served as project director for the Tennessee’s Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS), coordinating with the federal monitoring committee to ensure fulfillment of grant deliverables.

• Prepared federally required grant documents such as budget reports and annual performance reports.

• Served as technical product owner for data mart and dashboard development work, coordinating with vendors and subcontractors.

• Used statistical software such as SQL and R to clean data, aggregate and analyze data, and perform data quality checks for federally required research reports such as Report Card and InformTN, and ad hoc data requests. 

• Created wireframes and research dashboards using SAS Viya.  Coordinated extensive internal review and revisions of work to ensure reports were in best and final form.

Assistant Professor, King University (August 2021 - July 2023)

• Taught economics, statistics, and management science courses to MBA students, covering a diverse set of statistical techniques such as descriptive statistics, regression analysis, forecasting, and linear programming.

• Maintained an active research agenda, working on individual and collaborative research papers, employing a variety of different statistical and experimental techniques.

• Served as program coordinator for the traditional MBA program; coordinating corporate visits, overseeing internships, and establishing program policies.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Middle Tennessee State University (August 2017 - May 2021)

• Conducted election research using a variety of experimental and statistical models including limited dependent variable models, regression discontinuity, and nonparametric statistics.

• Developed proficiency collecting and working with cross-sectional, panel, and time series data using a variety of different statistical software including R, Stata, and Python.

• Gained valuable experience collaborating with scholars in a research program in political economy and public policy as a graduate research fellow. 

• Presented the technical findings of research papers at conferences and invited paper presentations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Statistical Software: R, Stata, Microsoft SQL Developer, Oracle SQL Developer, SAS Visual Analytics (Viya), PowerBi

• Project Management: Microsoft Office Suite, Jira 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Career and Technical Education, Early Literacy, Social Choice, Constitutional Political Economy, Election Design, Experimental Economics

PUBLISHED PAPERS

• "Identifying Voter Preferences through Two-Stage Multivoting Elections:  Experiments in the Preface of the 2020 Democratic Primaries".  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 190(1) 2021: 434-462

• “Causality Tests for U.S. Public Expenditure, Economic Uncertainty, and Other Indicators”.  Scientia Et Humanitas 8(1) 2018: 90-106 

WORKING PAPERS

• “Political Entry in State Elections: Evidence from State House of Representative Elections in 2018”

• "Two-Stage Multivoting for Assignment Problems"

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• “Creating K12 Dashboards to Support Executive Decision Making”,  2024 SLDS Best Practices Conference.  Washington DC, May 3rd, 2024 

• “Identifying Voter Preferences through Two-Stage Multivoting Elections”, Association for Private Enterprise Education Annual Meetings.  Las Vegas, Nevada, April 5th, 2020*

• “Identifying Voter Preferences through Two-Stage Multivoting Elections”, Public Choice Society Meetings.  Newport Beach, California, March 15th, 2020*

• “Identifying Voter Preferences through Two-Stage Multivoting Elections”, Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting.  New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21-23rd, 2020

• “Identifying Voter Preferences through Two-Stage Multivoting Elections:  Experiments in the Preface of the 2020 Democratic Primaries”, Virtual Social Choice Conference.  February 5-6th, 2021

INVITED ACADEMIC PAPER PRESENTATIONS

• “Identifying Voter Preferences in Two-Stage Multivoting Elections”, Samford University.  Birmingham, AL, October 16th, 2019.

• “Identifying Voter Preferences in Two-Stage Multivoting Elections”, King University.  Bristol, TN, March 14th, 2023.

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS

• July 2024 Employee of the Month, Tennessee Department of Education

• 2021 James M. Buchanan Award for Best Dissertation in Political Economy

• Political Economy Research Institute Ph.D. Summer Fellowship, $4,000 (Summer 2020)

• Association of Private Enterprise Education Young Scholars Award (2020)**

• Institute for Humane Studies Hayek Fund for Scholars, $400 (2020)**

• Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society (2017)

• Golden Key Honors Society (2017)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Dual Enrollment Principles of Macroeconomics, Middle Tennessee State University (Fall 2019)

• Principles of Microeconomics, Middle Tennessee State University (Spring 2020, Spring 2021)

• Principles of Macroeconomics, Middle Tennessee State University (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)

• Quantitative and Research Methods, King University (Fall 2021, Summer 2022, Fall 2022)

• Intermediate Microeconomics, King University (Fall 2021, Fall 2022)

• Applied Management Science, King University (Spring 2022, Fall 2022)

• Economic Issues in Public Policy and Current Events (Fall 2022)

• Principles of Macroeconomics, Belmont University (Spring 2024)

SERVICE

• Traditional MBA Program Coordinator, King University (2022 - 2023)

• Committee for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, King University (2022 - 2023)