Resume

• 2000

  German

  English

  Ph.D.

  Sociology

  •Research Assistant: Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project (2005 - 2007). Conducted statistical analyses using US Census data to measure the distribution of household income in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area.\n•Research Assistant: Research for Democracy (2003 - 2005). Produced maps using ArcGIS for projects.\n•Data Specialist: Social Social Science Data Library (2000 - 2003). Developed social science computer-related class projects and provided computer instructions for data analyses.

  Temple University

• 1996

  NYPIRG

  NYPIRG Project Coordinator at Hunter College\n•\tTaught students how to campaign for environmental justice

  campaign finance reform

  consumer protection

  welfare reform

  and affordable and accessible higher education \n•\tRecruited and supervised more than 100 student volunteers to work on public policy issues\n•\tOrganized students to oppose CUNY tuition hikes\n•\tOrganized collection of petitions to oppose tuition hikes at Hunter College\n•\tOrganized legislative bus trips Albany (NY) for Hunter College students to lobby their New York State representatives to vote against budget with increased tuition\n•\tOrganized voter registration campaigns at Hunter College\n•\tSupervised student volunteers' collection of annual toy safety survey

  NYPIRG

  Visiting Lecturer

  University of Graz

  Assistant Professor of Sociology

  I worked as an assistant professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University at Kingsville

  and taught statistics

  advanced data analysis

  research methods

  and sociology of marriage and family courses.

  Texas A&M University-Kingsville

  University of Vienna

  Vienna

  Austria

  Lecturer

  Minnesota Population Center

  •\tSupervised the Integration of Basic Monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) (1976 – 2007) data into the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) database\n•\tIntegrated the American Community Survey (ACS)

  and U.S. Census data into the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) database\n•\tManaged IPUMS’ CPS

  ACS and U.S. Census Databases\n•\tRevised and updated data translation tables\n•\tReviewed and analyzed IPUMS data for continuous data updates as a part of data quality control and assurance\n•\tEdited data allocation procedures for U.S. data samples

  Post-Doctoral Research Associate

  University of Minnesota

• 1993

  BA

  Sociology

  Editor: \"The Campus\" newspaper (1995 - 1996);\nManaging Editor: \"The Campus\" newspaper (1994 - 1995);\nStudent Reporter: \"The Campus\" newspaper (1993 - 1996);\nStudent Member: NYPIRG (1994 - 1996).

  City University of New York City College

• Public Policy

  ArcGIS

  Research

  Multivariate Statistics

  Survey Design

  Data Analysis

  Editing

  Stata

  Qualitative Research

  Database Management

  Higher Education

  SPSS

  Statistics

  Research Design

  Teaching

  Louis

  PhD

  Vincent

  Louis

  PhD

  University of Vienna

  University of Graz

  University of Minnesota

  Texas A&M University-Kingsville