Executive Director of Institutional Research June 2013 to October 2016
1. Executive Director of Institutional Research June 2013 to October2016
University of Texas Health Science Center- San Antonio, Texas
A higher education institution that trains and educates future health care professionals with 3,250
students in Fall 2016 and over 1,600 faculty.
Administration and Management:
Managed a staff of 3 data analysts on numerous data and information technology
projects.
Served as Chief Reporting Officer for institution.
Founding Director of the Office of Institutional Research.
Managed federal and state reporting for UTHSCSA.
Managed survey design, collection, analysis, and reporting.
Supervised office research and data collection projects.
Reviewed and researched potential higher education policy decisions.
Served as UTHSCSA System Administer of Qualtrics Software.
Founding Chairperson of the Academic Data and Reporting Advisory Committee.
Served as research and statistical advisor on numerous projects.
Major Achievements:
Increased state funding by 3 million dollars through accurate reporting.
o Developed systems to catch common reporting errors which underrepresented
many part of the university.
o Fixed incorrect categorization of students. For example, some medical students
were categorized as nursing students (large funding different).
o Created complex programs to analyze trends to detect potential data entry errors.
Through accurate and effective reporting and professional connections at the Department
of Education, removed the institution from a federal watch list for institutions with high
tuition.
o Corrected reporting errors to IPEDS
o Scheduled meetings with the IPEDS staff and director.
o Received a memo from IPEDS stating when the institution would be removed
from the watch list.
Increased efficiency and accuracy of reporting and ad-hoc data requests by:
o Decreased ad-hoc reporting time from 3 weeks to 3 days.
o Created/managed the first historical data warehouse for reported data using MS
SQL Server.
o Creating a one-stop shop for data by consolidating the reporting of student,
graduation, financial aid, faculty, and financial (budget) data.
o Increased overall data reporting efficiency by creating over 100 automated reports
for state and federal reporting, accreditation reports, professional organization
surveys, and other scheduled reports.
o Decreasing reporting burden throughout institution.
2. o Created the first UTHSCSA academic dashboard using Tableau for 24/7 data
access.
o Created the first institution wide faculty effort reporting system.
o Developed Data Request/Project Tracking Log for Institutional Research.
o Supported accreditation projects through effective data reports.
Creating the first institution wide faculty effort reporting system.
o Fixed a major reporting errors to state agencies and system office.
o Managed the project from start (system development) to conclusion (reporting
data)
o Provided faculty effort reports for leadership.
o New faculty reports caused changes to strategic planning.
o Increased the number of reported research faculty FTE from 0.75 to over 100.
o Increased the number of reported research faculty FTE from 37 to over 500.
Created a new Student Satisfaction Survey for assessment reporting.
o First Student Satisfaction Survey deployed in over 7 years.
o First Student Satisfaction Survey developed with entire campus input.
o Doubled response rate from the last student satisfaction survey.
o Survey was used by numerous offices to modify goals and used as an outcome
measure.
Deployed Qualtrics (survey) software.
o Qualtrics was less expense and a more advanced tool than the commonly used
Survey Money
o Qualtrics increased collaboration between internal and external researcher.
o Qualtrics gave a survey tool to all students, faculty, and staff.
o Qualtrics allowed surveys to be transferred between users.
o Served as the Qualtrics Administrator for the University.