Resume
Hilary Ivy
Technical Competencies
Data Engineering & Architectures
Snowflake, MySQL, JSON, DataBricks, Python (pandas), AWS, GCP, Azure
Data Analysis & Visualization
Tableau, SQL, matplotlib, numpy, SAS, STATA, Looker, Excel/Power BI, R, BigQuery
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
ArcGIS, QGIS, OSM, OverpassTubro, Ushahidi, Google Earth Engine, CartoDB
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP & CRM)
Workday, Salesforce, Hubspot, Microsoft Dynamics365
Project Management
MS Project, Slack, Endnote, MS Office Suite, DevOps
Content Creation
Adobe Creative Cloud, YouTube Studio, Picsart, Canva, Instagram, WordPress, Canvas, HTML, CSS
Learning & Information Management
Canvas, Moodle, eClass
Service work
Planning Committee, Village of North Bennington
Feb.2024- Current
Mentor & Mid-Career Committee Member, AnitaB.org
Jun.2020 – Oct.2024
Mentor, She Runs It
Dec. 2020 – Dec.2021
Board of Directors, Standby Task Force
Nov.2014 – Nov.2019
Recent Experience
Community College of Vermont, Bennington, VT
Faculty, Data Analytics, Computer Science, & Geographic Information Systems
Jul. 2022 – Present
Build curriculum and deliver flagship Geospatial Technologies and Data Analytics classes using tools such as ArcGIS, Tableau,
Microsoft Excel & PowerBI. Provide instruction on key concepts in Data Strategy & Governance, considerations for Enterprise
Data Management (EDM), demonstration of Data ETL, and guidance on gathering requirements for analytic needs.
- Generate labs and demonstrate programming and query languages, including HTML, CSS, Python, SQL, and KML assisting students to learn about and build simply websites and application programming interfaces (APIs).
- Leverage JupyterLabs, GitHub, Excel, PowerBI, ESRI, Tableau, Google Big Query, Google Earth Engine, and Snowflake to provide hands-on exposure to leading cloud-based analytics and infrastructure platforms
- Delivered Workshop Session 1: From the Wild – Review of AI Implementations. Session 2: Uncovering Bias In the Machine: Deconstructing the Opaque Box, Retreat on Exploring Artificial Intelligence, Vermont State Colleges System, August 7th, 2024
Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Business Information Analyst, Office of Information Technology
Oct. 2024 – Present
Lead technical analyst supporting Human Capital Management (HCM) in Workday. Manage business process and security configurations while serving as technical support between Human Resources and the Office of Information Technology.
- Configure and test complex multi-stage business processes in Workday, including recruiting, onboarding, job changes, and compensation workflows.
- Lead documentation workstream, creating comprehensive process guides and training materials for HR operations.
- Partner with HR stakeholders to gather requirements, analyze business needs, and implement solutions for student employment, benefits administration, and workforce planning
Manage testing and deployment of business processes, custom object and reporting updates across development, sandbox, and production environments while ensuring data integrity and security compliance.
Google, Mountain View, CA
Ethical Investigations Analyst, Trust & Safety
Jan. 2019 – Jul. 2022
Founded the Responsible Innovation (RESIN) Infrastructure team driving strategic planning and development of Product
Fairness Testing’s Adversarial Architecture. Led 10+ Ethical Investigative Analyst team members, five engineers, and a UX/UI designer through an inclusive design process. Developed baseline workflows, assigned data roles, compiled user journeys, and articulated requirements for Annotation UI
- Conducted 40+ ML model ethnographies and mapped AI system architectures (CNN, NLP, GAN, RNN, etc.) to identify vulnerability points and curate adversarial data sets.
- Worked with over 100 client product teams across the company’s platforms, products, and user ecosystems when biased constructs or data were identified to design and deploy relevant mitigation strategies prior to launch.
- Built data pipelines and normalized artifacts in various formats leveraging internal services (Starburst, Knowledge Graph, LMS, and Image Search) and external APIs (Census, World Bank, Flickr, etc.) to curate adversarial test sets.
Department of Homeland Security
Office of the Inspector, Washington, DC — Senior Data Analyst, GS-13
Aug.2017 – Dec.2018
Serve as lead technical strategist and operational data manager utilizing a critical lens to reduce risk, identify security gaps and tackle vulnerabilities. Provide analytics guidance to Major Fraud and Corruption, Information Technology Audits, and the Special Reviews Group and generate dynamic visualizations to present findings to senior leaders on a multi-agency task force.
- Conducted forensic analysis to map geographic hotspots of money laundering activity across 260+ accounts, $425,000+ in fraudulent government deposits and $285,000+ dollars of transaction withdrawals.
- Develop target profiles and run graph analysis to link individuals resulting in 11 search and seven seizure warrants, three arrests, one conviction and $588,000+ in total value asset seizures.
- Initiated investigative data mining, resulting in the identification of $35 million in federal payments on 48,000+ suspected fraudulent claims associated with 133,000+ estimated identity theft victims.
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Winchester, VA — Program Analyst, GS-11
Jan.20217 – Aug.2017
Conduct complete analyses from beginning to end, including formulating research questions, identifying sources of information and appropriate research methods, collecting and analyzing data, performing quality assurance checks, and presenting results.
- Captured Equivalent Human capital cost of an estimated $ 190 million/per year in critical federal data storage and business processing of disaster assistance claims by National Emergency Management Information System (NEMIS).
- Provided direct research support to the policy team, including assistance in developing outcome and quality assurance measures for the agency’s Catastrophic Housing Index.
- Developed data-driven surveillance applications to identify disaster survivors with housing needs improving early warning and targeting critical assistance forecasts on over one million applications received by FEMA following disaster events
Education
Community College of Vermont, Bennington, VT
Design and Media Studies, Studio Art Certificate
2025
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
School of Law, Master of Science International, Analytic Methods & Spatial Technology
2012
School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Global Health Systems
2010
American University, Washington, DC
School of Government, Communications, Economics, Legal Institutions & Government
2007
Publications, Presentations, Awards
- Ivy, H. Lessons Session 1: From the Wild – Review of AI Implementations. Session 2: Uncovering Bias In the Machine: Deconstructing the Opaque Box, Retreat on Exploring Artificial Intelligence, Vermont State Colleges System, August 7th, 2024.
- Hanna et al. The Case for Interpretive Techniques in Machine Learning. Fake AI- This Book is an Intervention. Meatspace. 2021
- Denton et al. On the Genealogy of Machine Learning Datasets: A Critical History of ImageNet. Vol.8 Iss:2 Big Data & Society. 2021
- Co-created the Sensitive Terms Dataset and co-authored the Sensitive Terms Data Card for the Google I/O 2022 Developer conference to publicly launch the Product Fairness Testing for Developers guide.
- Hanna et al. Lines of Site. Logic Magazine. Issue 12. Commons. December 20th, 2020
- Awarded the 2019 Inspector General’s Honor Award for leading forensic data analysis and geographic visualizations showing human networks engaged in millions of dollars of fraud involving FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program.
- Recipient of the 2019 CIGIE Evaluations Award for Excellence for data analysis and observations on the impact of Zero Tolerance Child Separation Policy and 2018 Inspector General’s Award for Cross-Functional Collaboration & Teamwork.
