Lizzie Ellis

George Washington University Graduate School of Politcal Management

The Johns Hopkins University

Colgate University

Content Policy Manager, Transparency, Data and Accountability at Facebook

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Facebook

Content Policy Manager, Transparency, Data and Accountability

- Manage five-person Analytics team, including hiring process
- Create hiring rubric and skills test to hire new team members
- Design and implement task management workflow for the Analytics team using JIRA
- Primary system administrator for all AWS resources, (including Redshift data warehouse), GitHub, NGPVAN, EveryAction, and other software products as needed
- Build and edit BI dashboards in Sisense for BI  to report field work to Political department leadership during 2020 election cycle
- Prepare and present ad-hoc analyses of both AFSCME membership and general voting population for senior union leadership
- Implement and manage union-wide contract for new Peer-to-Peer texting software
Design, coordinate and execute full audit of new PAC contribution data using SQL and Sisense for BI (formerly known as Periscope)
- Build automatic data egress tools using AWS Lambdas and Python for data sharing cooperatives
- Plan and oversee three-day analytics conference for over 100 affiliate employees in Washington, DC, along with complementary webinar series.
- Primary point of contact for inter-union data sharing and consultation

AFSCME

Analytics Manager

- Administrate and monitor all Analytics team tools, including data pipelines, AWS services, Periscope, and GitHub
- Oversee purchase and implementation of new Point of Sale system to improve PAC merchandise sales at 2018 IU Convention
- Implement new web form system to facilitate data collection and program recruitment for other departments
- Design and build new data pipelines in Python to facilitate data collection projects

Senior Strategist II, Data & Analytics

- Designed and implemented data ontologies to store insurance team data in internal knowledge graph
- Created DeepDive apps to extract inter-personal relationships from a 1,000 article Wikipedia corpus
- Trained natural language processing (NLP) models to automatically identify key fields & relationships
- Wrote Scala code to ingest & parse XML feeds and store in MongoDB instance

Fractal Industries, Inc.

Data Analytics Engineer

- Managed a team of three deputies as Reporting Team Lead, overseeing all field- and internal-facing reports
- Built and maintained automated system to pull multiple voter contact lists for weekly SMS program
- Ran SQL Office Hours twice weekly for Data Team to answer questions and provide support
- Provided ad-hoc data needs for Voter Protection, Digital and Communications teams
- Constructed deck and narrative for weekly Data Deep Dive with Organizing and State leadership
- Main point of contact for field leadership regarding organizing reports

Hillary for America

Deputy Data Director, PA Coordinated Campaign

- Responsible for list creation, strategy, and export for all in-house direct mail and telemarketing projects
- Create and maintain automatic systems to move data through databases and systems
- Build additional features for existing Python program to optimize list pulls from Microsoft SQL Server Database
- Handle ETL and data cleaning for direct-mail related data science projects
- Prepare and present reports on mail experiments
- Coordinate acquisition and in-house mail modeling projects with the Data Science team
- Design and execute data requests for third-party models and file audits

Democratic National Committee

Data Manager for Direct Marketing

- Project manager for attendance data submissions three times a year to Maryland State Department of Education, involving coordination across multiple departments, schools, and various chief officers
- Collaborated with IT, schools, and other central office departments to validate seniors eligible for graduation
- Produced data report on Charter and Traditional school performance for School Board presentation
- Retrieved and organized BCPS data for ad-hoc requests using SQL, Stata, and Excel
- Analyzed student attendance and performance data for indicators around being on-track for graduation

Baltimore City Public Schools

Data Analyst, Office of Achievement and Accountability

- Processed donations from fundraisers in NGP and internal filing system
- Wrote candidate briefings for one-on-one meetings and fundraisers
- Built targeting lists of potential donors for Regional Finance Director
- Used advanced Excel functions, including VBA and Pivot Tables, to create information reports on donors for Finance Director

Terry McAuliffe for Governor

Finance Intern

- Collected and uploaded daily all national presidential polls for Atlas Online Toolkit
- Wrote SQL queries to pull ad hoc data for analysis, audit and repair of Toolkit information
- Posted daily absentee and early vote reports on over 30 states for 40 days preceding election
- Uploaded historical election results, voter registration, and campaign ad information to Toolkit
- Authored blog post on state redistricting challenges for main webpage based on prior research project
- Organized and cleaned up data using Excel and SQL for website upload

The Atlas Project

Data and Targeting Fellow

- Wrote social media content for use on Congresswoman’s pages
- Composed over 20 individual letters to address constituent concerns
- Researched a variety of topics to assist Legislative Aides with writing tasks

Office of Congresswoman Kathleen Hochul (D-NY-26)

Intern

- Managed company Twitter page from founding up to over 580 followers; live-tweeted major events, including November 30th site launch, and NASA rocket launches, reaching up to 50,000 exposures per tweet
- Published both original content and “STEM Reads of the Week” compilations on Wordpress site
- Published information on education efforts at all 27 National Laboratories for web database

STEMConnector.org

Social Media Coordinator

- Organized and tagged scholarly journals for access in the Project Muse database
- Proofed recent uploads in database
- Filed issues in hard copy for secondary reference

Johns Hopkins Press

Student Indexer, Project Muse

- Researched and wrote on broadband internet availability in upstate New York for policy team use.
- Photographed campaign events for campaign promotion across New York

Andrew Cuomo 2010

Policy Intern

- Staffed New York City comptroller candidate, including meeting preparation, event briefing and donor communication in preparation for state-mandated campaign donation filing deadline
- Researched and composed donor target lists, briefing memos, and client proposals
- Collected donations and assisted with logistics client fundraising events

Berger Hirschberg Strategies

- Read and catalogued constituent letters emails and faxes.
- Gave tours of the Capitol building to visiting constituents and friends of the Congressman.

Elizabeth Ellis