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Hi, I am Michelle

Michelle Duong

Research Fellow at Pace Center for Girls

I enjoy employing research methods for nonprofit organizations. Currently, I am working towards a doctorate degree in occupational therapy. Additionally, I am an ACE Certified Personal Trainer and have a First Aid/CPR/AED Adult and Pediatric Certification. Click on my resume below to see detailed descriptions on everything that I have worked on.

Enthusiastic
Dedicated
Detail Oriented

Skills

Experiences

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Research Fellow
Pace Center for Girls

October 2021 - Present, Jacksonville, FL

Pace provides free year-round middle school and high school academics, case management, counseling, and life skills development in a trauma-informed and gender-responsive environment.

Responsibilities:
  • Assessed the self-efficacy of the girls involved with Pace.
  • Developed reserach and analytic reports using Salesforce.
  • Conducted quantitative analyses using SAS and Python.

Data Management Analyst
Global Fortification Data Exchange

June 2020 - Present, Clearwater, FL

Designed for, and by the fortification community, the Global Fortification Data Exchange provides all the data necessary to track global progress on food fortification, and to enable decision makers to use data to improve the quality of national fortification programs.

Responsibilities:
  • Assessed the impact of data analytics on the topic of food fortification.
  • Created technical briefs and provided graphic design materials.
  • Analyzed, managed data on REDCap, and wrote Python scripts using REDCap API.
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Instructor
Raise Leaders Nation

May 2014 - May 2021, Boynton Beach, FL

Raise Leaders Martial Arts provides martial arts programs for all types of people.

Responsibilities:
  • Ran classes for all ages.
  • Co-created online Zoom program.
  • Assisted in creating a web app using Python and HTML.

Graduate Research Assistant
Food Fortification Initiative

September 2018 - June 2020, Atlanta, GA

FFI helps country leaders plan, implement, and monitor fortification programs.

Responsibilities:
  • Contact countries to participate in annual survey.
  • Used SAS to evaulate 41 countries' household surveys.
  • Analyzed food fortification alignment to WHO recommendations.
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Research and Evaluation Intern
Special Olympics International

May 2019 - April 2020, Washington, DC

The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

Responsibilities:
  • Created fact sheets based on data collected from the Healthy Athlete System.
  • Developed SAS code for variable mapping.
  • Assessed the impact of participating in World Games using SAS and Tableau.

Education

Doctorate in Occupational Therapy
Bachelor of Science, Nutritional Science
Bachelor of Science, Psychology, Behavioral and Cognitive Neruoscience

Accomplishments

ACE Certified Personal Trainer
ACE Fitness October 2019

The ACE Personal Trainer Certification Program is accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA), the gold standard in the U.S. for assessing fitness and allied health certification programs.

Basic Life Support (CPR and AED)
American Heart Association June 2021 - June 2023

Received training on basic life support and learned techniques on how to give CPR and information on how to use an AED.