Shaun Glaze
Applied Data Scientist
Data Analysis
Collaborative
Action-oriented
Technology
Research
Nearing graduation
Available
Applied researcher with 8 years of experience in collaborative and action-oriented research. Project management for multidisciplinary collaborations across public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Database query, data-mining, and data stewardship experience.
Independent Consultant
Glaze Research and Consulting
Since 2015
- Data analysis, consulting for 4 activist groups using logistic regression, multiple regression to target specific communities for 9 campaigns using R and SPSS
- Trained 8 community organizers on analyzing focus groups data in order to integrate NGO campaign framing with policymakers' public statements
- Taught warehouse supervisor logistic regression to quantify 5 factors predicting success and minimize attrition
- Webscraping and predictive analyses using Python, R, and Octave to model expected scale of accessible transit disparities
Doctoral Research Assistant
Boston College
September 2012
to May 2015
- Developed 20 participatory research trainings and practices to extend 30 researchers’ analytic capacities, particularly for software-assisted analyses (NVivo, Survey Monkey, Qualtrics)
- Co-developed bilingual (Spanish and English) Know Your Rights workshops for 200 migrants with 3 non-profits
- Built consensus on project goals and timeline to keep 15 co-researchers on-target, on-budget, and in compliance with ethical board requirements
- Prepared, reviewed, presented reports using: content analysis, thematic analysis and grounded theory. Calculated Cohen's kappa (>.8) and facilitated group dialogue to assess adequate inter-rater reliability.
- Wrote recommendations, reviewed policy effects for marginalized families in communities with a combined population of 93,000 individuals
Graduate Research Assistant, Apprentice
UMass Boston
September 2009
to May 2012
- Conducted semi-structured interviews and surveys with 50 migrant families, 3 waves of data collected. Administered standardized assessments, including Woodcock-Johnson.
- Performed K-means Cluster Analysis, Chi-square Independence Test, Linear Regression, One-way ANOVA, T-Tests using SPSS. Trained 11 junior researchers on SPSS on these analyses
- Collected data from 8 databases to perform policy analyses and literature reviews. Described policy contexts for stakeholders
- Created website to reduced skill gaps between 60 co-researchers
Assistant Project Manager
UMass Boston OpenCourseWare
September 2009
to September 2010
- Collaborated with Boston Public Schools directors and educators to improve student retention for 900 students
- Developed, implemented 56 hours of staff development workshops
- Evaluated 9 workshops using 3 cohorts of staff survey data to assess workshop effectiveness. Trained 2 junior members on how to clean, analyze survey data
- Managed over 150 education course assets for 12 faculty. Identified, reported gaps in curricula alignment.
PhD: Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology
Boston College
September 2012
to December 2017
(Anticipated December 2017)
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- Provide administrative support to 4 collaborative research partnerships
- Create, implement data security protocols and training to minimize participant risk
- Led, managed, trained 8 racially and linguistically diverse teams towards stated fiscal and time goals. Analyzed and presented data in both Spanish and English
- Developed 15 formal research trainings to teach research methods to diverse teams and non-academic community leaders. Increase marginalized communities' capacity for results-oriented decision-making
- Collaboratively and independently implement qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods analyses from study start to finish
- Graduate training in program evaluation, participatory research, and behavioral analyses
- NVIVO, SPSS, R, MySQL, Python, GIS
