Higher Ed + Data Science Consulting Services

I am available for limited consulting engagements.

I have more than a decade of experience helping colleges and universities leverage their institutional data to advance institutional missions.

Areas of expertise include:

Building Data Science Teams and Processes

Data Science work starts with good research questions and scientific processes. I can help you build an organizational structure that serves your institutional needs while helping Data Scientists to do what they do best.

• Defining Roles
• Building out technology processes (Github/Version controlled code repositories, Kanban/Agile Tools, shared data repositories)
• Building out people processes (Stakeholder needs assessments, research question design, management structures)

Ed-Tech Effectiveness and Accuracy Testing

Third party educational technology can provide a lot of value and focus to your institution. But, let’s face it: they don’t always deliver on what they promise. As an alumnus of an ed-tech, higher education data company, I’ve worked with product managers, account representatives and executives and would love to be your partner in shaping these partnerships. I can:

• Determine if the product fits your needs
• Build a short term strategy to test the efficacy of the tool
• Test the accuracy of predictive models
• Act as an objective third party to ask difficult questions about model specification and algorithmic bias
• Work with ed-tech product managers to help you get the most out of your relationship

Data Scientist, Analyst, Data Engineer and Senior Data Leader Searches

Data Science is a new field and it can be challenging to find candidates that have the right skills. Let me help:

• Write job descriptions
• Create interview questions
• Serve on search or interview committees for skills/coding tests

Strategic Planning for Modernizing IR/Data Analytics

The best time to plant a tree was either ten years ago or today. I can help you build a long term vision to modernize your current analytics practices into an agile, transformative, analytics operation. Whether it’s a large team or single person, I can help you set up a an analytics strategy that serves your institution for many years into the future.

• Goals
• Budgets
• Stakeholder Development
• Training
• Data Science Tools and Methods
• Data Architecture (cloud or on-prem)

Data Science Best Practice Training

• Reproducibility
• Workflows
• Infrastructure, Documentation, Validation, Quality
• R
• Python

Other Duties as Assigned

If you’ve got other needs, let me know. I am happy to help or to point you to others who can.

Contact

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