Kellie Wills, Ph.D.

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Desired position type: Any
Location: Seattle Washington, United States

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Summary

Seasoned statistical professional and educator seeks part-time or project-based work in data analysis, statistical modeling and programming, or training development and delivery.

Education

Ph.D., Educational Psychology (Measurement, Statistics, and Research Design), University of Washington College of Education, Fall 2013.

  • Concentration in Social Statistics from Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences.
  • Dissertation title: “Uncertainty in estimating between-teacher variation for value-added modeling: A Bayesian perspective.”

M.A. Applied Statistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, December 2000. GPA 3.96/4.0.

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 1992. GPA 4.75/5.0.

Experience

Postdoctoral Experience

8/2015 – present: Teaching and Research Associate, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

  • Teaches classroom-based graduate research methods classes.
  • Teaches online in the UW Continuum College Career Accelerator program.
  • Provided statistical and survey methods expertise for the District Leadership Design Lab and the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy.

Ph.D. Program Experience

9/2009 – 3/2014: University of Washington, Seattle, WA; NOAA, Seattle, WA

  • Graduate Research Assistant, responsible for statistical and psychometric analysis for NSF-funded elementary science assessment project DEISA (Developing and Evaluating Instructionally Sensitive Assessments). Co-authored a peer-reviewed paper for the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.
  • As an R Programming Consultant to NOAA, contributed as a consultant to the development of R package MARSS (Multivariate Autoregressive State-Space Modeling). Co-authored a peer-reviewed paper for the R Journal.

Predoctoral Experience

3/2008 – 12/2008: Engineering Service Manager, REvolution Computing, Seattle, WA

  • Led customer training and support for an enterprise implementation of the R programming environment.

11/2006 – 12/2007: Senior Consultant, Insightful Corporation, Seattle, WA

  • Consulted on projects involving statistical analysis and programming using S-PLUS.

6/2005 – 10/2006: Mathematical Statistician, U.S. Census Bureau, Suitland, MD

  • Researched, consulted on and reviewed seasonal adjustment practices and time series models for Census Bureau economic time series.

Skills

  • R (15 years experience)
  • RMarkdown/knitr (2 years experience)
  • Qualtrics (2 years experience)

Specialties

    statistics, Survey design and methodology