Robyn Goldberg

I am fascinated with the intersection of humanity and technology.

I believe if knowledge is power, data is empowerment.

Experience

Assistant Director for Data Analytics

USC Race and Equity Center
  • Designed, developed, and coded Django survey administration portal using Qualtrics API calls to facilitate the dissemination of surveys at local school sites.
  • Aided in the development of a national campus climate survey, creating plans for implementation on the data collection, management, security, validation, warehousing, and analysis of data.
January 2018 - Present

Evaluation Administrator

USC Office of Institutional Research
  • Ran the technical administration of university-wide course evaluation system, including the development of improved data processing, warehousing, extraction, and analysis utilizing Python, R, and SQL programming languages.
  • Partnered with departments across university to develop, design, and implement effective evaluation surveys tailored to the department operating context and their unique information needs.
  • Supervised programming analysts with goal of improving technical infrastructure, and developing quantitative models of existing data to support the further development, integration, and utilization of course evaluation data within the university.
May 2015 - January 2018

Office Administrator

Staff Management
  • Maintained accurate and confidential employee records through an intra-company database management program.
  • Reduced outstanding debt to company from client by upwards of $300,000 by constructing an accurate and comprehensive compilation of invoice records.
  • Processed weekly payroll for over 90 employees with high level of accuracy within a short turnover period.
February 2012 - September 2013

Research Assistant

San Diego State University
  • Assisted in data collection, literature reviews and development of research and survey materials.
  • Engaged in the entry, analysis and presentation of data for grant proposals and annual reports to support multiple community-centered education programs (TRIO Programs), including the coding and presentation of qualitative survey data.
September 2009 - May 2011

Education

Master of Applied Data Sciences

University of Southern California
Data Application Development
January 2017 - Present

Master of Public Policy

University of Southern California
Applied Research Methods for Program and Policy Evaluation
August 2014 - May 2016

PhD Coursework in Social Psychology

University of California, Santa Cruz
Participatory Evaluation Methods
September 2013 - June 2014

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

San Diego State University

Quantitative Research and Experimental Methods

August 2007 - May 2011

Skills

Programming Languages
  • Python
  • R
  • SQL
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • D3
Software Applications
  • SPSS
  • STATA
  • ArcGIS
  • Tableau
  • Advanced Excel
  • Qualtrics Survey Software
  • Blue Evaluation Software