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Work

1. Currently I work at Al Gore's climate advocacy group the Alliance for Climate Protection as an advocacy scientist; I report to Josh Nelson, ACP's director of online communications & new media.
2. From September 2009 to April 2010 I worked full-time with the international advocacy group Avaaz.org as a general technical consultant. I reported to Ben Wikler, campaign director at Avaaz.
3. From 2007 to 2009 I worked for Rock the Vote, focusing on voter registration and turnout of 18 to 29 year olds in the US.

Experience

Projects and programs I have managed include:

• Political voter contact: email, Facebook, mobile, direct mail, phones (automated, volunteer, paid)
• Online performance advertising & list acquisition: Facebook, Google Adwords, Care2/Change.org
• Web engineering: Drupal, Wordpress, jQuery, Python, Facebook Connect, & similar
• Field experiments, testing, scientific evaluation, & performance measurement
• Data visualization: charts, maps, tables, & performance dashboards
• Email deliverability & Return Path reputation monitoring
• Voter file matching, analytics, & Catalist subscription
• Web quality: usability, accessibility, i18n & similar
• Budgeting: analysis, forecasting, & reconciliation
• Technology development, data syncs, & APIs
• Census demographics & turnout analysis
• SEO, Google Analytics, & Google Trends

Education

I hold a master of public affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, where I concentrated in political methodology, state politics, & nonprofit management, and was student body president. I received my B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin with majors in government & economics, and minors in computer sciences & mathematics.

Professional Affiliations

Current professional memberships include:

• Analyst Group
• LBJ Washington DC Alumni
• Truman National Security Project
• Washington Area Bicyclist Association