MICAELA L. BROWNING

• Manage, mine, and analyze multi-million row datasets using SQL Server and Excel to inform public safety policy
• Create and maintain SQL databases, tables/views, reports and data input interfaces using complex joins, nested subqueries, temp tables, etc
• Automate tasks with SQL stored procedures to increase efficiency of data analysis/delivery
• Develop dynamic reports and dashboards in Tableau and PowerBI to increase departmental transparency
• Created the New Orleans Police Department’s social network analysis methodology and analytical mapping platform in ArcGIS
• Conduct social network analysis and scrape social media with R and Python to build intelligence summaries

• Collected and analyzed qual/quant data to produce case study of findings for a midline evaluation of Credit Suisse/Plan UK financial literacy program for adolescent girls in five communities in rural Brazil
• Recruited and managed team of five researchers in conducting 25 focus groups, 50 KIIs, and 400 quantitative surveys
• Developed and managed field budget

• Developed time driven activity-based costing methodology with Harvard Business School to evaluate the cost of primary healthcare in Haiti to improve operational efficiency and patient outcomes
• Designed data collection tools for and managed field implementation of a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded cost-effectiveness study across five partner hospitals
• Managed a field team of 10 data collectors and one local coordinator

• Identified target demographics and produced segmentation analysis of potential new markets using Census data and ArcGIS geospatial analysis
• Created and disseminated survey instruments to analyze financial habits of customers, leading to process improvements and a 15% drop in portfolio delinquency
• Conducted research for and authored lobbying reports encouraging the implementation of low-income renewable energy incentives, leading to the creation of a Low Income Working Group in New York and an elevated tax incentive by the Government of Connecticut

• Taught weekly section of International Development 101 course to university undergraduates
• Conducted qualitative research on child labor in the Ivorian and Ghanaian cocoa sectors and assisted in writing of quarterly progress reports for a $1.5 million USDOL research grant

• Conducted financial statement audits for two microfinance agencies in Sierra Leone and Mozambique
• Executed agency’s first social performance audit using stakeholder focus groups, KII interviews, and borrower audits

• Coordinated research for a $20 million NIH-funded healthcare process optimization company, for BedsideCommunicator™, a Morgenthaler Ventures “Health ICT DC-to-VC” Finalist
• Conducted research for and wrote winning proposal for two $250,000 NIH Small Business Innovation Research grants
• Conducted needs assessment and a cost/benefit analysis demonstrating potential savings of partner hospitals, resulting in signing of 2 MOUs for product’s pilot launch

TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, LA

January 2010 - May 2013

MS, International Development and Development Economics, 4.0 GPA

● Winner, Director's Award for Best Research Paper, "Disequilibrium in the Informal Housing Market in Rio de Janeiro"

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Baltimore, MD

August 2002 - May 2006

BA, Latin American Studies, Graduated Cum Laude