Strategy · Analytics · Research

Turning data, research, and organizational challenges into decisions people can understand and act on.

Analysis grounded in practice.

Professional consulting experience paired with interdisciplinary training in public management, data science, government, and policy research.

ProfessionalWashington, DC

PotomacWave Consulting

July 2023 - Present

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Consultant2025 - Present

Leads projects that collect and analyze enterprise data to advise clients on process improvement, strategic planning, and organizational transformation. Contributes to proprietary consulting tools and program-assessment models.

Analyst2023 - 2025

Developed and executed program evaluations for federal clients, translated findings into mitigation strategies, and conducted corporate research to streamline operations and assess the competitive landscape.

AcademicThree disciplines
2026

Johns Hopkins University

M.A., Public Management · 4.0 GPA

Financial management, administration, and policy challenges across sectors.
2023

University College Dublin

M.S., Data Science · 4.0 GPA

Machine learning, data visualization, modeling, and quantitative political analysis.
2021

Georgetown University

B.A., Government · 3.8 GPA

Qualitative and quantitative analysis of politics, policy, and economics.
CertificationsProject leadership
2026

Project Management Professional (PMP)®

Project Management Institute

A globally recognized credential for experienced project leaders. The PMP signifies that its holder has met formal education and project-leadership experience requirements and passed a rigorous examination covering the people, processes, and business priorities involved in leading predictive, agile, and hybrid projects.

Ideas made useful.

Interactive models that turn complex nonprofit-finance, federal-market, capital-planning, electoral, household-finance, and talent data into practical comparisons and priorities.

Six interactive models
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Interactive nonprofit-finance tool

Nonprofit Financial Health Examiner

An analytical tool that turns nonprofit financial data into accessible health scores, trends, peer comparisons, and stress tests to help users assess resilience and financial risk.

RShinyNonprofit finance
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Interactive market-strategy tool

Federal Market Landscape Assessor

An opportunity-analysis tool that combines federal spending trends, agency and NAICS demand, competition, set-aside patterns, and company fit to identify markets worth pursuing.

RShinyFederal contracting
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Interactive capital-planning tool

Capital Investment Lab

A scenario-based model that brings economic value, financing pressure, funding strategy, and risk together to support clearer capital-investment decisions.

RShinyCapital planning
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Interactive congressional election simulation

Congressional Election Simulator

A customizable simulator that combines candidate profiles, district conditions, historical election patterns, and forward-looking trends to explore how different congressional candidates may perform.

RShinyScenario modeling
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Interactive financial modeling

Rent vs. Buy Decision Tool

A scenario-based calculator that brings mortgage costs, tax effects, home appreciation, and the opportunity cost of invested savings into one clear comparison.

RShinyDecision analysis
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Interactive sports decision model

NFL Draft Prospect Explorer

A prospect-comparison tool that combines consensus evaluations, production, athletic testing, and position-specific modeling to support more transparent NFL draft analysis.

RShinyPredictive modeling

Questions explored in depth.

Selected academic and professional writing across public policy, political science, economics, and program evaluation.

01
2026

Fiscal Oversight and Program Evaluation

Assessing GAO’s Impact on Spending and the Federal Budget Process

An evaluation of how GAO audits, program reviews, and recommendations influence federal savings, revenue collection, and budget accountability—and where implementation limits its impact.

Research paper · 27 pagesRead PDF ↗
02
2025

From People to Power

Examining Interpersonal and Institutional Trust

A multivariate analysis of recent European Social Survey waves testing whether interpersonal trust independently predicts confidence in public institutions.

Quantitative study · 22 pagesRead PDF ↗
03
2025

Redeveloping the RFK Campus

A Policy Proposal Memo

A concise assessment of DC’s stadium and mixed-use redevelopment policy through the lenses of equity, economic efficiency, fiscal impact, and implementation design.

Policy memo · 4 pagesRead PDF ↗
04
2024

Under Water

An Economic and Policy Evaluation of the U.S. Flood Insurance Market

A policy brief connecting climate risk, migration, reinsurance markets, federal interest rates, risk-rating reforms, and building standards.

Policy brief · 7 pagesRead PDF ↗
05
2023

Picketing Amongst the Picket Fence

Neighborhood Development and Civic Engagement in Europe

A master’s thesis investigating a possible U-shaped relationship between neighborhood development and political participation across Europe.

Master’s thesis · 37 pagesRead PDF ↗
06
2023

Biting Its Own Tail?

European Integration, Inequality, and Euroskepticism

A political-economy analysis connecting the EU’s neoliberal integration trajectory to distributional winners and losers, party realignment, and the rise of Euroskeptical challenger parties.

Political economy paper · 12 pagesRead PDF ↗
07
2022

One Nation Under God?

Religiosity and Trust in International Political Institutions

A quantitative ESS study comparing multiple dimensions of religiosity and their relationship to trust in the United Nations and domestic political institutions.

Statistical study · 11 pagesRead PDF ↗

Curious by nature.
Practical by design.

I approach complex work by clarifying the question, grounding decisions in evidence, and designing outputs that people can actually use.

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Strategy & problem solving

Structuring ambiguous questions, testing assumptions, and turning evidence into a practical path forward.

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Analytics & research

Building reproducible analyses, models, and visualizations that make complex relationships understandable.

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Programs & organizations

Connecting operational detail to mission, financial health, stakeholder needs, and measurable outcomes.

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