Today, I'm a team member at AEM Corporation in their Civilian and Commercial Services crew, where I specialize in modernization and innovation. At AEM, we help leaders, thinkers, and professionals tackle their toughest data and technical challenges. 

Before this, I was the first Director of the Vermont Agency of Education's Data Management & Analysis Division, where I served alongside my Work Family of Data Scientists as a centralized resource to the organization. My crew led the modernization of collection, stewardship, and use of the institution's critical data assets. We pioneered the Agency's data governance program and the business side of the DataOps continuum. 

My Ph.D. (2011) is in sociology from the National University of Ireland Maynooth (www.nuim.ie) where I was a doctoral fellow at the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (www.nuim.ie/nirsa). My dissertation findings highlighted shifting demographics in education arenas and labor markets internationally, specific education orientations occurring across cultures, and presented thoughts on the social and spatial forces surrounding rural community viability. 

Since leaving academia, I've dedicated myself to creating the cultural, infrastructural, and operational conditions required for practicing good data science in the public sector. 

Specialties: data science, data management, data governance, DataOps, data privacy, administrative data, mixed methods, applied research, program evaluation, continuous improvement, research methods, social policy, management

Hi. I'm Jared Knowles, founder and President of Civilytics Consulting. You can learn more about Civilytics Consulting’s work, our clients, and our history on our homepage. You can also follow Civilytics on Twitter or subscribe to our monthly newsletter, the Civic Pulse.

I'm a statistical programmer and social scientist with experience in R programming, analyzing administrative records, machine learning, and data visualization. I've also taught R programming and statistical computing to a wide array of audiences.

I formerly served as a research analyst with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. I completed a PhD in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015.

I am an independent researcher, helping states, districts, and education advocacy groups conduct data analyses with a focus on equity.

I have been a US ED Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) program officer, Duke University researcher working with North Carolina agencies, principal investigator for Rhode Island and District of Columbia research projects, and Hawai’i state data summit plenary speaker.

My journal publications include the Economics of Education Review. Some of my work for advocacy groups can be found online in these EdTrust 50-state equity analyses for preschool, counselors, and advanced course opportunities.

You can contact me at: CrattyEDDR@gmail.com.