Luca Picci

Experience

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  Catawba College

  Jan 2018 - May 2019

  Teaching Assistant

  - Prepared lesson plans and led supplemental instruction session in macroeconomics for approximately 20 students twice weekly.- Led individual tutoring sessions upon request.- Led other tutoring sessions for microeconomics, comparative economics, managerial finance and French

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  Cesvi Fondazione Onlus

  May 2018 - Aug 2018

  Project Lead

  - Conducted economic evaluations of ongoing agricultural projects in Zimbabwe in order to inform farmers in arid regions, promoteefficiency and reduce risk in their ventures, while facilitating the continuation of existing projects.- Led pilot economic development project in Harare that facilitated the creation of small sustainable businesses for a group of eightwomen facing economic and social hardship.- Set up data collection system and conducted analysis and evaluations for this pilot project while offering financial counseling forthese women Show less

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  RED Graniti S.p.A.

  Jun 2019 - Sept 2019

  Accountant

  - Assisted the accounting team in completing timely general ledger and sales processing and reconciliation using SAP and Excel.- Completed monthly sales and management reports and created a more efficient system in excel to generate these monthly reports quickly and accurately.- Assisted in financial consolidation for Southern Granites, a subsidiary of RED Graniti.- Facilitated reconciliation of tax related accounts by communicating and meeting with the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) officials Show less

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  Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures

  Sept 2019 - Sept 2021

  - Contributing author – Analyzing long-term socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 across diverse African Contexts. UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa, New York USA, 2021.- Contributor – Assessing the Impact of War in Yemen: Pathways to recovery. UNDP. New York USA, 2021- Use the International Futures integrated assessment model to pull data, conduct analyses, and generate visualizations for various ongoing projects.- Lead a team of 5 research assistants on various projects, regularly check in with project supervisors and researchers, and review all work done to ensure client deliverables are met.- Create scripts using Python to scrape data from various databases and clean large datasets. Show less

  • Project Lead

    Dec 2020 - Sept 2021

  • Research Aide

    Sept 2019 - Dec 2020
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  University of Denver - Josef Korbel School of International Studies

  Jun 2020 - Jan 2021

  Research Assistant

  - Research Assistant to Evangeline Reynolds Ph.D.- Assisted in maintaining the Flipbookr package (coding presentation tool) in R.- Contributed to the development of the Flipbookr package in python.- Created data visualizations to demonstrate Flipbookr capabilities and compatibility with ggplot2 andTidyverse packages.- Assisted in creating blog posts

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  Home State Politics

  Aug 2020 - now

  Data Engineer

  - Secured grant of 5,000 USD to co-build Python web scrapers to collect all legislative vote records for the Florida, Colorado, and Idaho legislative sessions.- Created static and interactive visualizations and conducted statistical analyses.- Formed partnerships with journalists, newspapers and publications reporting on state legislatures and local government

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  Alternativ

  Sept 2020 - Jan 2021

  Data Specialist

  - Pulled, cleaned and vetted data collected with open-source survey platforms using excel and python.- Developed and maintained a data management system to store project data and automate simple analyses and comparisons among different projects.- Created interactive dashboard and visualizations using Excel and Tableau for internal analysis and client consultation.

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  The ONE Campaign

  Sept 2021 - now

  • Senior Data Analyst

    Aug 2023 - now

  • Research Analyst

    Sept 2021 - Aug 2023