Allison Stafford

Experience

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  Stanford University

  Sept 2009 - Jun 2011

  • Student Advisor, Earth Systems Program

    Sept 2010 - Jun 2011

  • House Manager, Durand

    Sept 2010 - Jun 2011

  • Lifeguard

    Jan 2008 - Sept 2010

  • Resident Assistant, Cedro

    Sept 2009 - Jun 2010
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  Knowles Science Teaching Foundation

  Jun 2011 - Jun 2016

  Teaching Fellow

  + Lead annual professional development sessions on navigating teaching, physics curriculum, and improving department morale.+ Facilitated a three-day “Code Camp for Teachers.” Worked with three-member team to design curriculum for 20 educators.

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  Sequoia Union High School District

  Jan 2013 - Jun 2018

  + Taught Physics and International Baccalaureate (IB) Physics to 150-170 students each year.+ Collaborated with teacher team to design and implement project-based curriculum.+ Designed and updated curriculum for IB Physics course resulting in a 22% above average pass rate and 5% above average highest score rate on the exam.+ Piloted and championed a new grading system for school, building a 40% adoption rate within 4 years. + Performed complex queries of school data system, completed data cleaning and analysis, and presented results to Site Council to inform policy decisions.+ Collaborated with Principal and Leadership Team facilitators to set monthly agenda.+ Facilitated 20-member meetings to develop and approve site plan and improve school functioning. + Advised 30 colleagues in use of new learning management systems in 2013 and 2015. Troubleshot problems with colleagues via email and one-on-one consultation.+ Collaborated with Director of Technology and district-wide coaching and professional development team to develop district-wide curriculum for instructional technology professional development.+ Lead 6+ sessions on instructional technology tools with 30 participants at site- and district-level professional development events. + Instructed 30+ beginning to intermediate swimmers per year in the four competitive strokes.+ Collaborated with 3-4 coach team to develop swimming program and create competitive lineups.+ Managed pool, bussing, meet logistics, communications, league roster, eligibility, and equipment orders for 60-member team.+ Organized $6000/year of individual gear orders, $3,400/year of team donations, and applied for and received $7,500 grant for additional team gear.

  • Physics Teacher

    Aug 2012 - Jun 2018

  • Site Council/Site Leadership Team Facilitator

    Aug 2015 - May 2018

  • Learning Management System Coach and Professional Development Facilitator

    Jan 2013 - May 2018

  • Swim Coach

    Jan 2013 - May 2017
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  Flatiron School

  Aug 2019 - Nov 2019

  Data Science Immersive Student

  + Designed and implemented SQL integrated with Python data analysis and hypothesis testing.+ Performed ETL with APIs, csv and json loading into SQL, MongoDB, and Pandas.+ Trained Scikit-Learn models w/ pipelines for preprocessing and cross validation.+ Visualized datasets using matplotlib pyplot, sankey; seaborn; and folium mapping.+ Translated analytic insights into slide decks designed for non-technical stakeholders.

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  Smartsheet

  Nov 2020 - Apr 2022

  • Data Analyst II

    Nov 2021 - Apr 2022

  • Data Analyst I

    Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
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  ThriftBooks

  Apr 2022 - now

  • Analytics Engineering Manager

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Senior Analytics Engineer

    Apr 2022 - Dec 2023