Tina is Executive Director of Assessment, Analysis and Accountability at The Educational Empowerment Group. She is charged with the responsibility of creating and establishing the vision to provide high-quality education for underrepresented students. Tina has established a rigorous agenda for academic performance district-wide, developing systems to inform schools about their overall performance and ensuring that the district uses high-quality data to drive its decisions. She Oversees the core functions of student information systems, including attendance and enrollment audits; research, evaluation and school performance management; and summative assessments. Tina is highly skilled with expert level proficiency in the following areas: critical thinking; data analysis, stakeholder support; research; communication; computer; leadership; project management, contract administration, resolution; auditing, instructional design, training and development, and implementation.

DATA GOALS. Responsible for creating a comprehensive data strategy that enables district leadership to have regular access to clear, understandable and transparent information to enable strategic and data- driven decision-making at the building level.

DATA ANALYSIS. Transform raw data into meaningful, actionable, and visual information to implement data driven decision in the classroom. Tasked with addressing and resolving issues related to testing burnout, academic growth, and academic achievement. Monitor student progress across academic service programs, community engagement, and retention using available data.

DATA VISUALIZATION. Integrate data from various sources to deliver appealing visualizations. Create and maintain data dashboards in Tableau that empower stakeholders to make data-driven decisions. Responsible for cleaning data in Tableau Prep, and refreshing data on a regular basis to publish up-to- date dashboards. Identify and interpret data trends and patterns, and communicate results to non- statistical audiences using data visualizations.

ACCOUNTABILITY. Directs activities related to district, state and federal planning and accountability requirements for student achievement as established by the state of Ohio. Serves as a resource and liaison for the district’s senior leadership team; state and federal agencies on issues related to district, state and federal accountability.

CONTRACT ADMINISTRATON. Manage the preparation, negotiation, execution, and administration of contracts, working closely with the Company’s Account Receivable department. Serve as contract administrator for each awarded contract. Responsible for maintaining the contract management system, updating standard forms, negotiating legal terms with vendor, and interfacing with other stakeholders to ensure that contract terms meet business requirements, all within relevant deadlines. Maintain a budget, and timeline for contracted services.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/TRAINING. Provide hands-on training/mentoring for staff, including providing regular feedback, coaching and direct support to ensure all staff members are operating at a high level, coordinating effectively and cross-functionally.

GRANT MANAGEMENT. Write, edit, and submit grant applications. Reviewing budget for appropriate expenditures, monies spent, and monies available. To date, have successfully received over $900, 000 in grant monies for the 2020 fiscal year.

PRODUCT IMPLEMENTATION. Work with vendors to determine necessity of products/programming; negotiate contracts and pricing; lead implementation efforts at each school building from start to finish; conduct onsite training.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT. Execute the overall activities set within the scope of the project and in accordance to meet budget, schedule and performance constraints. Directs internal resources to ensure project delivery is on time and cost and to the specific, pre-defined deliverables as detailed in the project charter. Operates within the defined structure to manage schedule, risk and communication. Reports project performance directly to customers. Works to achieve both project and program objectives.

DATABASE ADMINISTRATION. Facilitate discussions to determine business needs; research, interview and select designer; conceptualize and provide the framework to create a customized data warehouse; work one-on-one with the design engineer to create the data warehouse.