Recruiting Firm. “Annual Salary Studies.” Conducted statistical analyses of salary data collected from candidates in the data science and analytics space.  Co-author of published reports. Developed online salary calculator to estimate earnings based on candidate inputs.

Sports Analytics Startup. “Roster Value Maximization.” Led the optimization team that developed the core model of the company’s primary player acquisition and roster management product. Also developed several of the key statistical and machine learning predictive models contained in this product.

Federal Government Board. “Web-Based Retirement Planner.” Led 8-person team that built a web-based retirement planner for millions of federal employees/retirees. The planner allowed participants to model various contribution and withdrawal options, providing them with a simulation-based estimate of the likelihood of accomplishing their goals.

Federal Government Corporation. “Sampling Plan Improvement.” Developed a stratified statistical sampling methodology to allow the client to audit accounts with fewer resources while maintaining the legally required level of statistical significance.

Sports Business Startup. “SafeSeating Solutions.” Established a company to provide venue managers of stadiums and arenas in college athletics departments and professional sports teams with a software product that creates seating plans in accordance with social distancing and capacity constraints.  Recruited and managed the team responsible for developing the platform as a Software-as-a-Service (Saas) offering serving an R Shiny application in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instance.

Major University. “Sports Analytics Club.” Founding faculty advisor of the club with 150+ student members, and senior consultant to varsity athletic team coaching staffs.  Grew teams supported over a 3-year period.

Division I College Football Conference. “Predictors of College Football Attendance and Viewership.”  Analyzed historical data to identify factors affecting in-person attendance and television audience for a NCAA Division I football conference. Focused analysis on impact of game time changes due to TV network preference. Highlighted effects of factors within and beyond their control to commissioner, staff, and member institutions.

Independent Foundation.  “Endowment Sustainability and Risk Analysis.”  Conducted a risk analysis using Monte Carlo simulation to analyze the sustainability of a $45M endowment fund over a 40-year horizon. Identified potential risks and mitigation measures to foundation leaders, to ensure long-term success and mission attainment.

Private Real Estate Partnership.  “Partnership Division of Assets.”  Developed optimization model to suitably balance net equity (market value minus debt) and tax implications of dissolution, accounting for geographic grouping constraints and across multiple partnerships.

Footwear Manufacturer. “Machine Scheduling.”  Implemented optimization model to schedule production of thousands of model/size combinations of soles on rotary injection mold machine; goal is to meet demand while minimizing changeover costs.

Army Headquarters. “Force Mix and Composition Analysis.”  Used dynamically generated scenarios to develop a 20% smaller but more robust organization able to meet a wide range of future capability demands.

Cabinetry Manufacturer. “Optimal Board Size Selection.”  Developed an optimization model that minimizes the total cost of purchasing particle board material, with a penalty for over-stockage.  Model includes an embedded cutting-stock problem.

International Energy Firm. “Optimal Injection and Withdrawal for a Natural Gas Storage Facility.”  Developed a multi-period optimization model that maximizes the sum of profits across all time periods, while meeting appropriate constraints on maximum capacity and minimum allowable reserve levels.

Army Corps of Engineers.  “A Simulation-Optimization Model of Organizational Capacity.”  Developed a simulation-optimization model of organizational capacity for a district office of the Army Corps of Engineers to: (1) provide analytical underpinning to their request for funding as part of the annual President’s Budget submission, and (2) inform them about how to better shape their organization to suit the actual demand for their services.

Senior Army Officer. “Statistical Analysis of a Model for Discipline.  Assisted a Senior Service College Fellow with his, “The Effects of Persistent Conflict on Soldier Discipline:  Sustaining Comprehensive Discipline in Challenging Times.”  Assisted with survey instrument development and analysis of relationships between various components of the model for discipline.

Department of Foreign Languages.  “Reading Strategies Among Second-Year Students of Russian.”  Based on an approach applied to students learning Chinese, this research sought to determine the best indicator(s) of high levels of reading comprehension among Russian students.  Analysis included testing the hypotheses with data provided by the foreign language department, as well as additional exploratory analyses.

Army Accessions Command. “WholeSoldier Performance.”  Developed methodology for measuring Soldier performance in the moral, cognitive, and physical domains along a continuum, with a focus on measuring what we want, not just what is easy to measure.  Numerous implications for recruiting, training, retention, promotion, assignment, mission accomplishment, and allocation of resources.

Refractive Surgery Clinic. “Analysis of Refractive Surgery Data from a Young and Extremely Healthy Population.”  Refractive laser eye surgery, i.e. PRK and LASEK, has been performed at West Point for several years. Eligible patients include junior and senior cadets and active-duty military members. Addressed several questions of interest to the Academy, the Army, and the ophthalmologic surgery community.  Reviewed the existing nomogram (graphical computation device) used and recommended changes based on simulation modeling using historical outcomes and follow-up data.

Special Operations Peculiar Modification Office.  “Small Arms Effective Life Studies.”  Extended previous work on development of a system that keeps an accurate record of the wear on a weapon throughout its lifetime to new weapons under development.  Following other industries, he reliability model for components uses the Weibull distribution. This system informs both operational and maintenance policy decision-makers.

Directorate of Logistics, Transportation Division. “Optimal Leasing of Coach Buses.”  Constructed simulation – optimization model based on historical data to determine the correct number of coach buses for the U.S. Military Academy to lease in support of sports teams, cadet clubs, and other Academy organizations.   Determined the optimal balance between leased and contacted buses to minimize total costs to the Academy.

Program Manager.  “Business Case Analysis for Vehicle Health Management System.”  Primary benefits analyst on the Vehicle Health Management System (VHMS) program; Integrated Process Team consisted of over 100 persons from 12 organizations.  Developed and adapted existing methodologies for estimating cost savings and avoidances; performed simulation modeling of HBCT maintenance processes to estimate quantifiable but non-monetary benefits of adding VHMS (a diagnostic, prognostic, and condition-based maintenance system) to the Army’s tracked vehicles.

Army Transformation Office.  “Interactive Annex A to Army Campaign Plan.”  Led a faculty, contractor and cadet team in creating a data implementation of Annex A to the Army Campaign Plan (ACP), originally 26 Word/Excel/PowerPoint files, generating interactive tabular, stationing, readiness, and timeline views of the data using WebTAS and Google Earth, integrating the system with other Army Staff sections’ (G-1 and G-8) information systems, as the first step in the development of a more automated ACP process management tool for senior Army leaders for strategic decision making.

Undisclosed Charitable Organization. “Alternative Investment Strategy Modeling.”  Led team of analysts in evaluating a series of alternatives for a non-profit organization.  Constructed complex simulation models to identify risks assess the distribution of financial outcomes and potential risks from alternative investments.  Analysis provided organization’s leaders with information critical for sound decision-making.

Army Human Resources Command. “Timeline View for Interactive Officer Record Brief.”  Adapted Lifelines, a visualization tool for personnel histories for use by the Army in officer assignments, promotions and selections.  Goal is to allow for the rapid comprehension of a large amount of information in a short period of time, such as in a promotion or selection board.  Project was a prototype and concept demonstration; a request for proposal to implement has been let.

Army Headquarters.  “Army Modular Force Conversion Study.”  Analyzed the impact of major reorganization of Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs), especially on senior non-commissioned officers and field grade officers, due to the rapid growth of these grades with the modular conversions.  Tempered operational leaders’ desire to accelerate conversions with personnel community’s ability to support.

Army Headquarters.  “Military-to-Civilian Conversion.”  Studied the impact of converting over 10,000 Army military positions to civilian authorizations in generating force units.  In particular, considered the impact on Active Soldier career progression, synchronized with the ability of the civilian personnel system to recruit and hire employees to replace the Soldiers no longer authorized.  Converting these positions freed up “spaces” to allow the creation of more war-fighting units.

Army Headquarters.  “Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy.”  Lead personnel analyst on Army Staff-wide team; study included supportability and feasibility analyses of unit moves from Europe back to the Continental United States and, in conjunction with Human Resources Command, the impact on Permanent Change of Station moves and associated costs.

Army Headquarters. “Personnel Services Delivery Redesign Study.”  Worked as part of a team investigating the impact of significant redesigns of the Army’s personnel services units.  Primary considerations included predicting the impact of the changes on retention of senior Adjutant General (AG) Corps’ noncommissioned officers and career progression paths for company grade AG officers. 

Army Headquarters. “Active Component / Reserve Component (AC/RC) Rebalancing Study.”  Primary personnel analyst, responsible for analyzing the impact of proposed changes to the mix of Active and Reserve Component units, including effects on unit fill and readiness, and Active Army recruiting and retention.

Army Headquarters. “Administrative Specialist Reduction Study.”  Coordinated the efforts of 20 Personnel Staff Systems Officers, representing all branches of the Army and major commands in conducting an analysis of personnel effects of major reductions in or eliminations of administrative specialist positions in Army units.  Study also considered secondary impact on positions replaced by Soldiers with the predominant occupational specialty in each unit.

Army Headquarters.  “Personnel Management Authorization Documents / Updated Authorization Documents / Notional Force Structures.”  During a time of unprecedented change in the Army, produced personnel authorization documents for all Army units at four times the usual rate.   These documents allowed Human Resources Command to provide a force in accordance with Army COO’s intent, constrained by applicable laws and policies.  Furthermore, integrated Army Reserve into the process for the first time.

U.S. Military Academy.  Provided analytical support for the design, implementation, and analysis of the Cadet and Faculty Honor Surveys conducted by the Superintendent’s Honor Review Committee.  Allowed for insights into the attitudes of cadets and faculty members regarding the Honor Code and Honor System, thereby enabling education and training programs to be focused as needed.