Morgan Waters

Chicago, IL

847-922-5867

morgantwaters@gmail.com

Overview: Experienced Research Analyst specialized in compiling and standardizing various data sets into a single researchable database, providing quantitative analysis to assist in Senior Leadership decisions, and explaining the data story to others outside of the research team.

 Technical Skills

• Nationbuilder/VAN • HTML/CSS
• PostgreSQL
• QGIS/Leaflet.js
• R
• Vim/Vim-R
• PostGIS
• DBVis
• RedShift
• Nexis
• Excel
• Google Apps Script

June 2016 – Present

Next Gen Iowa and Illinois – State Data Director                                                                                           Des Moines, IA/Chicago, IL

• Created daily reports, secretary-of-state reports, GOTV reports, trainings and analysis for campaign executives.
• Created video tutorials, in-person and live video tutorials educating campaign workers on Excel, VAN and SQL.
• Pulled informative data from various sources to help reach prospective voters.
• Built target universes for two states and maintained an archive of over 48,800 voters committing to voting to help the climate.

2011 – 2016

Memphis Lift – Nation Director of Data and Technology                                                                                           Memphis, Tennessee

• Founded a national education non-profit advocacy organization from the ground up.
• Ran a 20-person education campaign in Memphis where we knocked over 10249 doors, held 34 meetings and talked to over 2000 citizens about their children’s education.
• Created weekly reports, presentations and analysis for campaign executives.
• Maintains and cleaned a database of 550,000 voters and parents with R, Postgis and PostgreSQL.

Colorado Democratic Party – Deputy Data Director                                                                                                            Denver, Colorado

• Created daily regional reports, secretary-of-state reports, get-out-the-vote reports in PostgreSQL.
• Reported on over 5 million contact attempts from a backend database.
• Ran the campaigns’ auto-dialer, reaching out thousands of voters every week.
• Created video tutorials, in-person and live video tutorials educating campaign workers on Excel, VAN, QGIS,
• Geocoded addresses in PostGIS for three million voters.
• Maintained a database of three million voters for an organization of 60 people and additional volunteers.

Bill Thompson for Mayor – Opposition Researcher                                                                                                          New York, New York

• Edited 70 gigabytes of video I recorded to best suit the needs of the campaign.
• Looked though financial records from donors, other candidates, and organizations.

Organizing for America – Field Organizer                                                                                                             Indian Trail, North Carolina

• Set four offices up from bare walls to optimum functioning to help give the President a fighting chance in NC.
• Built effective and dynamic teams in tough areas by recruiting and managing hundreds of volunteers.
• Organized alliances with community organizations and produced several events with more than 100 people.
• Managed teams which registered nearly 2,100 voters, made more than 300 calls a day and completed approximately 15,000 door knocks in the lead-up to the election.

Obama for America Headquarters   – Research and Media Planning Intern                                                          Chicago, Illinois

Education

New Organizing Institute                                                                                                                      Washington, D.C.       

Introduction to SQL                                                                                                                                              April 2014

 Indiana University                                                                                                                                  Bloomington, Indiana

Bachelor of Arts, Journalism and Political Science                                                                                      May 2009