If you are interested in learning more about Andrew, below you will find a brief summary of his recent employment and education. Please contact for his Curriculum Vitae.
Professional Experience | Research Experience | Military Experience | Education
Professional Experience
Director of the Illuminating Discovery Hub, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, UW-Madison
Madison, WI (Feb 2021-Present)
Director of Strategy, Warrior Dog Foundation
Remote (Mar 2021-Present)
Manager of Public Grants, Montgomery County Community College
Blue Bell, PA (Nov 2019-Feb 2021)
Coordinating and managing public grants across the College for programmatic, research, and operational projects.
Sustainability Intern, City of Norcross Public Works, Atlanta Regional Commission
Norcross, GA (Aug 2017-Apr 2018)
Developed a city-wide multi-family recycling initiative for more than 1,500 dwelling units. Opportunities assessed through evaluation, stakeholder engagement, research driven concepts, as well as regional practice reviews. Program has addressed potential for apartment complex owners and tenants to divert nearly 35-tons of waste going to landfills by adopting a recycling program. Successful development and implementation of a multi-family recycling imitative will provide untapped revenue channels for the City program, reduce litter and stream pollution in communities, and result in new relationships in the community to build on other sustainability efforts.
Science Policy Fellow, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Washington, D.C. (Jan 2016-Jul 2016)
Chartered first ever Soil Science Interagency Working Group under the National Science and Technology Council, tasked with developing a Strategic Plan for public entities to conserve, manage, and protect soil as a natural resource.
Eisenhower Executive Office Building
Further, acted as the Program Manager for the White House National Microbiome Initiative, a $521 million multi-sector, cross-disciplinary initiative aimed at fostering the collaboration of research, funding, and efforts to elucidate basic knowledge of microbiomes across ecosystems. Developed policy, and garnered support from public and private organizations to support new platform technologies, research, workforce and citizen science.
Participated in the communication and development of an interagency effort to develop new policies and regulations that guide the Federal workforce in addressing implicit bias, discrimination, and other unfair inclusivity issues. Aided in the authorship of the final agency report “Reducing the Impact of Bias in the STEM Workforce: Strengthening Excellence and Innovation.”
Assisted with reviewing and enforcing the policy set forth in the “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research” – an effort to ensure that federal agencies abided by new regulations for making federally funded scientific research easily accessible to the public. This required working with all Federal agencies to develop programs and policies for increasing such access.
Engaged in high-level interagency communication and stakeholder coordination to develop interdisciplinary relationships that fostered programs of public interest. Often these discussions were with agency heads, agency scientists, Office of Management and Budget officials, and various other program experts, too include the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Experience organizing high-level events within the White House, Eisenhower Executive Office Complex, such events include the National Microbiome Initiative, Building Partnerships for Suicide Prevention, the White House Water Summit, and many more.
Office of Science and Technology Policy Intern, Executive Office of the President,
The White House
Washington, D.C. (Aug 2015-Dec 2016)
Participated in the formulation of policy and initiatives that shape the culture and values of the American society, and interaction with government entities, including the Raising the Profile on Agriculture Education, Suicide Awareness & Prevention Mental Health Hackathon, and many more.
Provided policy research support, aided in Administration goal development and attainment, and promoted nationwide initiatives that reflect the needs of society.
Paralegal Apprentice - Department of Veteran Affairs, Office of Regional Counsel
Phoenix, AZ (Jan 2015-Jul 2015)
Utilizied analytical skills to interpret complaints and claims made by the Veteran community including garnishments, EEO complaints and tort claims; diligent work habits allowed for proper denial judgment in tort claim, saving the VA $500M from one single claim.
Other tasks including the monitoring and tracking of cases & claims at the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veteran Claims on internal system. Maintain working knowledge of veteran benefits, debt collections, arbitration, escheats, probates, and title reviews. Interpret judgments and liens with attorneys, and support tort team.
Research Experience
Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology
(Aug 2016-May 2019)
Provided research assistance with federal and state funded projects through research, literature review, quantitative analysis, stakeholder engagement, and communication of research. Projects are listed below:
GDOT Roadmap For Driverless Vehicles — Funded by Georgia Department of Transportation (2018)
SBIR Program Assessment — National Academies of Science Review (2018)
A Research Agenda for the Science of Broadening Participation: STEM Employment of Individuals with Disabilities — Funded by the National Science Foundation
Veteran Innovation Network — (2018)
Measuring the Economic Value of Research: The Case of Food Safety — Funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (2017)
Symposium on the Science of Broadening Participation in STEM — Funded by the National Science Foundation (2016)
Co-Principle Investigator, independent research alliance with academic professional
(Jul 2015-Present)
Utilizing research based principles to explore and understand fundamental knowledge regarding innovation policies. Provide support in data collection, interviews, and analysis of policies and laws that have advanced technologies.
Technology Transfer Research Intern - Center for Organization and Research Design, Arizona State University
(May 2016-Aug 2016)
Investigating policy implications for science and technology innovations in public & private sectors
Military Experience - United States Air Force
Security Forces - as a Security Forces member, roles and and duty titles often change; however, there remain indispensable responsibilities across the domains:
Detect, report, and respond to incidents on the installation. Conduct RAMs/searches, secured evidence and enforce UCMJ violations. Implemented anti-robbery/duress procedures, and enforces traffic laws. Provide visible deterrence/armed response for Protection Level resources. Provide police services for base population.
Air National Guard Service: 2015-2018
Active Duty Service: 2009-2015
Deployed with Beni
Military Working Dog Handler
Attended intensive 80 day Department of Defense Military Working Dog Handler course at Lackland AFB in becoming a certified MWD Handler. 3 years as a Patrol Explosive Detector Dog Team (PEDD), where mission was to aid the Air Force, Department of Justice, and other sister services worldwide with the ability to detect, deter and detain intruders, and to suppress the use of explosive devices.
Operated as a PEDD team, provided a visible and psychological deterrence to criminals and terrorists. Continuously selected for US Secret Service missions. Entrusted with the responsibility of securing and safeguarding POTUS, VPOTUS, SENEX, and Foreign Dignitaries.
Base Access Controller & Background Investigator
Certified by the State Bureau of Investigations on Division of Criminal Investigation/National Crime Information Center module for installation security. Investigated personnel for base access through background checks and enhanced ability to ID known criminals. Secured over 8k installation members through background checks, giving added protection to the base. Coordinated with local law enforcement agencies to detect, deter and detain those with warrants. Direct experience collaborating with FEMA in natural disaster work groups in North Carolina.
Squad Grenadier
Law Enforcement & Base Defense
Operate communications equipment, vehicles, intrusion detection equipment, crew-served weapons, and other special purpose equipment. Applied self-aid buddy care, lifesaving procedures, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as first responder in accident and disaster scenes. Gained five years of weapons proficiency, and qualifications.
Certified Military Customs Inspector, enforced agricultural compliance by inspecting 16k+ lbs of cargo, and over 400 personnel landing on military installations. Reported and confiscated all contraband discoveries, enforced agricultural compliances.
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology — 2019
Master's of Science, Public Policy - Science and Technology
Master of City and Regional Planning - Environmental and Health Planning
Arizona State University — 2016 Summa Cum Laude
Bachelor's of Science, Public Policy and Public Service - Science and Technology Policy
Certificate in Public Administration & Public Management
Certificate in Political Entrepreneurship
National Paralegal College — 2015
Paralegal Professional
Community College of the Air Force — 2014
Associate's of Applied Science, Criminal Justice