Scott Heemann

Senior IT Technical Project Manager at Westat

 Dedicated Senior Manager with 18 years of social science research experience across project management; Systems/IT management; client management; and design, development and implementation of multi-faceted research initiatives.  Experience in IT/Systems process development and data mapping, including requirements gathering and documentation; diverse knowledge base in data/operations integration, including the design, build and implementation of multiple data streams into a single study management platform.  Diverse capacity in project roles/responsibilities, ranging from managing project budgets and associated resource allocations to exploratory (capture) project design/development to study/data collection implementation, including Systems/IT interface design/usability in an Agile environment.  Experience in the build out of data structures and constructing data pipelines to organize and house primary data, as well as ancillary paradata and metadata, augmented with rigorous quality processes to produce defensible data decisions.