Niels Armbruster

- Applied balancing of covariates on control and treatment groups for Bank of Canada currency calculations - Estimated fluctuations in results by calculating impact of population differences on treatment - Edited pre-existing RStudio package to incorporate aspects of improved balancing method

- Conceived the idea that university student volunteers bring their own writing to share, facilitating an equal-footed, reciprocal mentoring relationship - Advertised opportunity to Emory Oxford, Emory Atlanta, Georgia Tech, and Morehouse students through pamphlet creation distributed on social media and email lists - Hosted information session with 20 interested students - Created application process to screen for students that would be suitable for the opportunity - Answered questions from university student volunteers regarding training process, classroom configuration, and interactions with incarcerated scholars - Completed over 20 hours of training to become a certified contractor with the Georgia Department of Corrections and created guide to training process for interested university student volunteers

- Generated choropleth map demonstrating prison admission rates per Georgia County from 2006-2022 - Investigated correlations between county demographics and admission rates to find most predicative demographic - Analyzed prison admission rates before and after Gov. Nathan Deal’s criminal justice reform to determine efficacy

- Selected to lead research overview of the impact of correctional post-secondary education on recidivism and related legislation for a policy brief to the Georgia State Senate - Workshopped with incarcerated/formerly incarcerated persons to incorporate their experiences into the policy brief - Presented research findings to Georgia State Senators and fielded questions

- Investigated economics of private prisons in “Private Prisons: Economically Smart or Too Many Externalities?”

- Researched peer reviewed papers on the use of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modeling to incorporate into working paper - Utilized LaTeX software to upload academic papers and sources in concise manner - Worked with CGE packages in R Studio along with hard code elasticities

- Tutored in Introduction to Calculus, Calculus I, and Calculus II - Examined own biases in mathematical tutoring and ways to combat math stereotypes - Studied calculus and tutoring principles in class sessions - Created pamphlet for future tutors on how to find local and global extrema using the first and second derivative tests

- Evaluated multiple configurations of software to select and implement a new expense reimbursement system for MPE and two subsidiaries, presented new expense system to CEO and sales force, and communicated with expense software vendor to resolve functionality and billing issues - Reviewed company credit card statements for documentation of expenses, verified that invoices tracked to correct general ledger accounts, and uploaded expenses to payroll system - Tracked all inventory at two different locations, identified locations that had not been counted recently, collaborated with kitting and receiving teams to standardize cycle count procedure, and cycle counted high priority locations - Updated Excel worksheets for MLA tracking, cost reduction, and cash management reports in addition to automating payroll review calculations and conversion between different general ledger accounts - Communicated with multiple insurance companies to facilitate connection between brokers to retrieve workpapers for a workers compensation dispute - Summarized margin reports and prepared flash data to present to Chief Financial Officer