Management

Amelia holds a Masters degree in Public Administration with honors and over a decade of experience in administration, strategy, and management.

 

Project management

  • Coordinated remote, cross-country, cross-jurisdictional collaboration between University of Oregon’s Ecosystem Workforce Program and the US Forest Service, using Box and Microsoft Teams

  • Led the response to increased demand for “America the Beautiful” senior passes at a major metropolitan hub

  • 7+ years of event planning experience

Data analysis

  • Managed and analyzed a complex dataset containing over 1 million records of demographic panel data, depicting the US Forest Service workforce from 1995 to 2017, performing statistical analyses, cleaning data, creating and recording quality control protocols, writing summaries, and visualizing data, using Microsoft Access, SQL, InDesign, and Tableau

  • Analyzed over 5,400 winery visitor surveys to draw conclusions about visitor demographics and trip behavior at Oregon’s wineries using Stata

  • Experience with SQL, Microsoft Access, R, Stata, and Tableau

Research

  • Proposal for Lane County Park’s $20 million maintenance backlog, including case study research, creation of slide deck and memo summarizing results with tables and figures, and presentation to the parks funding task force

  • Under UO’s Sustainable Cities Institute, conducted applied research for the City of Eugene’s data management policy, including literature review, interviews with government officials, and case studies of nearby cities’ open data policies, resulting in presentation to city’s data manager and final report

  • Conducted visitor surveys and literature review, as well as original analysis, to produce winery visitor profile report for Oregon’s winery regions and increase winery tourism in Oregon’s rural areas. Presented research findings in interactive workshops with professionals from the wine and tourism industries

  • As a research assistant at University of Oregon’s Institute for a Sustainable Environment, contributed to original research on the impacts of the Northwest Forest Plan 20 years after its implementation, on national forests in the Pacific Northwest, impacts of Oregon’s Federal Forest Restoration Program, youth aspirations in rural communities, and social and economic monitoring of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska

Strategy and systems design

  • Designed a comprehensive interagency response to increased demand for senior “America the Beautiful” passes, resulting in the distribution of over 3,700 passes within three months (17 times the average rate of distribution)

  • Researched intergovernmental collaboratives and disaster risk reduction for client Lane Regional Resiliency Collaborative, then made recommendations for collaborative structure and funding sources