John Colton Thompson

Experience

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  Thompson Land and Cattle

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2009

  Farm Hand

  Attended to and monitored livestock wellness at 5 farms with over 1,000 heads of cattle.

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  Tulane University

  May 2010 - May 2011

  Created a team-based environment to mentor and promote personal growth, academic success, and leadership development for more than 40 student residents. •Managed research housing for over 200 adult mice while maintaining detailed inventory.•Saved the lab more than one thousand dollars per year due to performing mouse housing management tasks in an economically savvy fashion while sustaining lab quality.•Assisted in evacuating key lab resources during Hurricane Gustav. Managed desk operations for Tulane University summer conference guests by providing customer service and administrative services.

  • Resident Assistant

    Aug 2009 - May 2011

  • Lab Assistant

    Aug 2008 - May 2011

  • Conference Desk Services Coordinator

    May 2010 - Aug 2010
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  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Oct 2011 - Sept 2013

  Senior Animal Research Technician

  •Managed a multi-million dollar colony of humanized, immunodeficient and HIV infected mice to be used for research.•Worked to support a university research team through writing and updating lab protocols and grant work.•Maintained lab compliance with IACUC and environmental health & safety inspections. •Conducted research to further refine the humanized mouse model.•Created hundreds of humanized mice as a member of the xenografting surgery team.•Collaborated internationally with a team of researchers to organize research efforts. Show less

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  Doug Duncan for County Executive

  Oct 2013 - Apr 2014

  Research Fellow/Analyst

  • Discretely conducted opposition research to preserve campaign strategy while also leading the campaign research efforts• Created and then maintained the campaign’s research databases and files• Compiled, summarized, and analyzed data on current and prospective donors in order to develop donor reports.• Collected, analyzed and fact-check data on local government budgets to assess candidate strengths and to obtain cumulative budget transparency• Assembled daily news summaries relevant to campaign issues for distribution• Provided raw data and other information for grassroots messaging, advertisements and fundraising• Developed creative data representations from critical campaign research findings Show less

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  DCCC

  Apr 2014 - Dec 2014

  Research Department Assistant/Research Analyst

  • Worked with the Research Director to prepare extensive political research documents, compiling information from votes, news clips, campaign finance reports, travel records, personal financial disclosures and research databases• Provided in-depth research analysis of voting records, and crafted how specific votes would impact candidates • Compiled data for Party Leadership to convey the historic levels of grassroots support our Frontline members received this cycle compared to previous cycles• Supervised and coordinated with over 25 trackers outside of Washington, DC, as well as managing tracking documents• Wrote background opposition research documents to assist with party messaging in both primary and general elections • Recorded video and audio of candidates and members of Congress while they were in the DC metro area, with some footage used in both DCCC and other IE television ads• Analyzed and transcribed video and audio recordings• Tracked live election night returns • Traveled to multiple toss-up districts to assist with Get Out The Vote programs Show less

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  American Society of Hematology

  Sept 2015 - Aug 2021

  o Connected raw data from a multitude of sources, synthesizing and distilling to communicate with internal and external stakeholders in numerous forums o Designed and implemented live Tableau dashboards for the ASH RC Data Hub COVID-19 Registry for Hematology site for both malignant and nonmalignant hematologic conditions with visualizations including upward of 1,000 COVID-19 cases o Created and implemented the work flow to take member suggestions for the ASH COVID-19 resource page and communicate them to ASH leadership o Managed Google Analytics for both the Awards and Diversity Department as well as the ASH RC Data Hub COVID-19 Registry for Hematologyo Led the Awards and Diversity Team in developing an internal awards application and management tool o Surveyed more than one thousand hematology fellows, researchers and program directors in the spring of 2020 to assess pandemic-related experiences o Analyzed and presented pandemic-related experience survey results to leadership and the ASH 2020 Annual Meeting, with additional scholarly publications forthcomingo Spearheaded ASH business intelligence analytics which included creating live dashboards for the Business Development Team to display corporate spending at ASH as well as dashboards for the Publications Team to analyze Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts o Monitored live visualizations and analytics for attendance at the ASH 2020 Annual Meeting o Annually developed and performed program evaluation involving qualitative and quantitative data for nearly 20 ASH award programs worth upwards of 12 million dollars and subsequently presented to staff and ASH committee members o Annually evaluated ASH Diversity programs, which included conducting focus groups on DEI as well as presentations on internal data to the Women in Hematology Working Group, the ASH Committee on Promoting Diversity, the ASH Awards Committee and the ASH Executive Committee Show less

  • Manager of Program Evaluation and Data Analysis

    May 2020 - Aug 2021

  • Awards & Diversity Program Analyst at American Society of Hematology

    Jan 2017 - May 2020

  • Development Program Analyst

    Sept 2015 - Jan 2017
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  APHL - Association of Public Health Laboratories

  Sept 2021 - Aug 2023

  Data Senior Specialist, Newborn Screening Technical Assistance and Evaluation Program (NewSTEPs)
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  Tacugama

  Oct 2023 - now

  International Volunteer