Jim
Wright
Senior Manager at Applied Survey Research
Curriculum Vita
About Me
I specialize in research methodology, implementation science, statistical analysis, and data collection, management, and visualization.
Contact information
Professional Background
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Education
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| 2017 — 2021 | Doctorate of Philosophy in Speech-Language Pathology with specialization in Educational Data Science, University of Oregon |
| Dissertation: What is the Effect of Personalized Cognitive Strategy Instruction on Facilitating Return-to-Learn for Individuals Experiencing Prolonged Concussion Symptoms? | |
| 2012 — 2014 | Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 2008 — 2012 | Bachelor of Science in Speech-Language Pathology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Career History
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| 2026 — current | Senior Manager, Applied Survey Research | Lead the execution and strategic oversight of complex, mixed-methods research and evaluation initiatives across public health, early childhood, and community-based service systems. Fully manage project scopes of work including timelines, analytic workflows, budgets, and interdisciplinary teams, ensuring alignment between research design, stakeholder needs, and implementation outcomes. Direct the development of survey instruments, qualitative protocols, and data processing pipelines; oversee data cleaning, integration, and analysis across multi-source datasets (e.g., administrative records, survey responses, and public-use data such as Census or state-level reporting systems). Collaborate with program partners and technical staff to translate analytic findings into actionable recommendations through reports, dashboards, and stakeholder-facing presentations. Supervise project staff in reproducible research practices, including R-based data pipelines, version-controlled workflows, and structured documentation to support transparency, replication, and long-term maintainability of analytic outputs. Maintain partner relationships across county agencies and nonprofit service providers, proactively identifying analytic risks and implementation barriers while supporting adaptive decision-making throughout the project lifecycle. |
| 2025 — 2026 | Project Manager, Applied Survey Research | Translate high-level project goals into actionable work plans, ensuring that every phase moves forward smoothly and on schedule. Oversee project implementation, anticipating resource needs, troubleshooting challenges, and making strategic adjustments when necessary. Manage relationships with partners and stakeholders, ensuring their needs are met through clear communication and collaboration. Delegate effectively, solve problems proactively, and keep projects on track from start to finish. Focus on maintaining momentum, driving results, and continuously improving processes to deliver successful outcomes. |
| 2024 — 2025 | Senior Research Analyst, Applied Survey Research | Assist in the design and implementation of community-based research, evaluation, assessment, and strategic planning projects via survey development, data cleaning, data analysis and report writing |
| 2023 — 2024 | Researcher, Marzano Research | Support and lead multiple aspects of education research and evaluation studies and technical assistance projects via data collection, management, and analysis as well as meeting facilitation and report writing |
| 2021 — 2023 | Clinical Supervisor, University of Oregon | Provide clinical supervision to Master’s students in the Communication Disorders and Sciences program, primarily for treatment sessions in the School-Age Clinic and the Brain Injury and Concussion Clinic |
| 2022 — 2023 | Research Associate, Marzano Research | Support multiple aspects of education research and evaluation studies designed to inform educational improvement through the provision of technical support and communication of findings |
| 2016 — 2017 | Speech-Language Pathologist, Amita Health Care: Alexian Brothers Medical Center – Elk Grove Village, IL | Provided swallowing, speech, and language assessment and treatment in an acute care setting on a PRN basis |
| 2015 — 2017 | Speech-Language Pathologist, Chicago Public Schools – Chicago, IL | Provided direct and indirect speech and language services in the pre-K through grade 12 setting across a total of 4 schools |
| 2015 — 2016 | Speech-Language Pathologist, Education Solutions, LLC – Chicago, IL | Provided direct speech and language therapy for students in private schools |
| 2014 — 2015 | Speech-Language Pathologist, Chicago International Charter Schools – Chicago, IL | Provided direct and indirect speech and language services to a caseload of 40 students across one elementary school and one high school |
| 2014 — 2014 | Graduate Student Clinician, Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital – Hines, IL | Completed 10-week graduate student rotation where I obtained experience providing inpatient and outpatient speech therapy services to veterans |
Selected Project Experience
| 2024 — current | Lake, Kern, Siskiyou, Sutter, Yuba, and Ventura Counties, CA, Applied Survey Research | Lead Project Manager for ASR’s consulting work with six California First 5 County Commissions. Support Commission efforts related to annual program evaluation, including data collection, management, analysis, and reporting. Facilitate strategic planning initiatives, including the design and distribution of surveys via Qualtrics and the collection of qualitative data through focus groups and key informant interviews. Spearhead special projects, including the design, implementation, and analysis of key surveys such as the First 5 Kern Developmental Screening Gap Assessment and the Parent/Guardian Survey and Vaccination and Immunization for the Kery County Immunization Coalition. |
| 2024 — current | Butte, Plumas, Santa Cruz, and Tehama County Offices of Education, CA, Applied Survey Research | Serve as Lead Project Manager for ASR’s consulting work with four California County Offices of Education. Oversee the design and execution of Needs Assessments and parent surveys focused on perceptions, barriers, and priorities related to child care availability, priorities, and barriers to access. |
| 2023 — 2024 | Rapid City, SD Area Schools Special Education Program Review, Marzano Research | Prepared scope of work that secured $95,000 contract to review the Rapid City, South Dakota Area Schools’ special education program with a specific emphasis on service compliance, staffing needs, and eligibility determination. |
| 2023 — 2024 | Brookings, SD School District Special Education Program Review, Marzano Research | Prepared scope of work that secured $82,500 contract to review the Brookings, South Dakota school district’s special education programming with a specific emphasis on evaluating staffing needs and environmental conditions that facilitate negative and troublesome behaviors. |
| 2023 — 2024 | Success Ready Students Missouri – Learner Centered Assessments, Marzano Research | Responsible for data wrangling and analysis of district state assessment and interim assessments to compare proficiency ratings between the type of assessment. A primary responsibility has been the development of a dashboard to communicate test results and effect size comparisons. |
| 2022 — 2024 | Wyoming Believing in Literacy Together (WY BILT), Marzano Research | Leads the WYBILT project, a series of comprehensive literacy state development grants in 25 Wyoming school districts. Responsible for consultation with the Wyoming Department of Education, overseeing data collection, analysis, and communication of findings. |
| 2022 — 2024 | ‘Imi Pono Hawai’i Wellbeing Survey, Marzano Research | Responsible for survey development and analysis of the annual ‘Imi Pono Hawai’i Wellbeing Survey. Primary role includes the development of a dashboard to communicate findings. |
| 2022 — 2024 | South Carolina Teacher as Researcher, Marzano Research | Responsible for providing professional development sessions as a methodologist to assist participating teachers design and implement research studies within their classrooms. As a data analyst, responsible for the evaluation and communication of exit survey data to inform and influence improvements to the professional learning series. |
| 2022 — 2023 | Wyoming Accountability Study, Marzano Research | Responsible for data collection and analysis through survey administration and focus group facilitation. Also supported the identification of positive outlier schools through analysis of school proficiency ratings. |
| 2022 — 2023 | Wyoming Digital Learning Plan, Marzano Research | Responsible for consulting with the Wyoming Department of Education to draft and finalize the 2023-2028 digital learning plan. Project activities included a landscape scan of national research on digital learning, data collection (e.g., focus groups, surveys), and facilitating the drafting and finalization of the plan with an advisory panel, consisting of stakeholders across the state of Wyoming. |
| 2022 — 2023 | Evaluation of South Dakota’s Rethink Education Model Grant, Marzano Research | Responsible for data collection and analysis of program activities including survey administration and focus group facilitation. |
Selected Data Visualization Dashboards
| 2026 | First 5 Siskiyou School Readiness and Third Grade Reading Proficiency, Applied Survey Research | Developed longitudinal, geographic summary of First 5 Siskiyou’s Kindergarten Readiness Assessment results to compare to trends in countywide Third Grade reading proficiency. |
| 2025 | First 5 Lake Dolly Parton Imagination Library Geographic Analysis, Applied Survey Research | Developed geographic visualization to support First 5 Lake’s analysis of countywide reach of Dolly Parton Imagination Library program. |
| 2025 | First 5 Siskiyou Dolly Parton Imagination Library Survey, Applied Survey Research | Developed dashboard for First 5 Siskiyou to analyze geographic trends in results to Dolly Parton Imagination Library participant survey. |
| 2025 | First 5 Yuba Strategic Planning Community Survey, Applied Survey Research | Developed dashboard to display geographic tends from community survey priority ratings to inform 2026-2031 strategic planning. |
| 2025 | First 5 Kern ASQ Results, FY 2024-25, Applied Survey Research | Developed dashboard to display countywide results from Ages and Stages Questionnaire administered during 2024-25 fiscal year. |
| 2025 | First 5 Kern Immunization Coalition Parent Survey, Applied Survey Research | Developed data dashboard to display results from parent survey on vaccine beliefs and decision-making |
| 2024 | Santa Cruz County Office of Education Parent Survey on Childcare Preferences and Needs, Applied Survey Research | Developed data dashboard to display results from parent survey on childcare needs and preferences |
| 2024 | First 5 Kern Disapirities Map, Applied Survey Research | Co-developed geographic visualization of Kern County community indicators to communicate disparities between zip codes |
Graduate Student Research Experience
| 2020 — 2021 | Data consultant, Hawaii Concussion Awareness and Management Program (HCAMP) | Consulted with HCAMP team to conduct retrospective exploratory data analysis on Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT) scores and Post-Concussion Symptom Scale (PCSS) severity ratings |
| 2018 — 2021 | Co-director, Brain Injury and Concussion Clinic (BrICC), University of Oregon | Responsible for development of the clinic term schedule, recruitment of clients, development of assessment materials to measure student outcome, and the development of a treatment protocol for adolescents with prolonged concussion symptoms |
| 2013 — 2014 | Research assistant, NeuroSpeech Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Assisted Dr. Torrey Loucks in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data from speech samples pertaining to the effects of delayed auditory feedback (DAF) on fluent speakers and speakers who stutter |
I consulted with HCAMP to complete my capstone project in order to obtain the data science specialization from the University of Oregon. Our collaboration focused on retrospectively analyzing ImPACT test scores and PCSS severity ratings. Data products I produced for HCAMP are accessible here and here.
Graduate Student Teaching Experience
| 2017 — 2021 | Clinical supervisor and co-director for the Brain Injury and Concussion Clinic, University of Oregon |
| 2018 — 2021 | Mentor for graduate student capstone projects, University of Oregon |
| 2014 — 2014 | Teaching assistant for SHS 410: Stuttering: Theory & Practice, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Graduate Student Service
| 2018 — 2021 | Co-director, Brain Injury and Concussion Clinic (BrICC), University of Oregon | Responsible for development of the clinic term schedule, recruitment of clients, development of assessment materials to measure student outcome, and the development of a treatment protocol for adolescents with prolonged concussion symptoms |
| 2018 — 2019 | Academic advisor, University of Oregon | Advised incoming freshmen students on the selection of courses for their first term enrolled in the Department of Communication Disorders & Sciences |
Programming Skills
| 2010 — current | Microsoft Office |
| 2017 — current | SPSS |
| 2018 — current | Qualtrics |
| 2019 — current | R and Rstudio |
| 2022 — current | MAXQDA |
| 2023 — current | Tableau |
Teaching
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Courses Taught
All courses taught at the University of Oregon Department of Communication Disorders & Sciences.
Scholarship
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Peer-Reviewed Publications
| 2025 | 4. | Rothbart, A., Sohlberg, M.M., Shune, S., Seeley, J., Berkman, E., & Wright, J. (2025). Do Treatment Ingredients Targeting Working Alliance Improve Cognitive Rehabilitation Session Performance in Patients With Acquired Brain Injury? . American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 34(3), 1,023-1,040. doi: https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_ajslp-24-00347 |
| 2022 | 3. | Wright, J., Sohlberg, M.M., McIntosh, K., Seeley, J., Hadley, W., Blitz, D. & Lowham, E (2022). What is the effect of personalized cognitive strategy instruction on facilitating return-to-learn for individuals experiencing prolonged concussion symptoms. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 33(7), 1-30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2022.2074467 |
| 2021 | 2. | Wright, J. & Sohlberg, M.M (2021). The implementation of a personalized dynamic approach for the management of prolonged concussion symptoms. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 30(4), 1-14. doi: https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_AJSLP-20-00306 |
| 2020 | 1. | Wright, J., Sohlberg, M.M., Watson-Stites, R., & McCart, M (2020). Identification of key therapy ingredients for SLPSs serving on multidisciplinary teams facilitating return to learn for students with prolonged cognitive effects after concussion: A retrospective analysis. Topics in Language Disorders. 40(1), 6-35. doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/TLD.0000000000000198 |
Professional Reports
| 2025 | 21. | Hess, C., Handman, R., & Wright, J. (2025). First 5 Kern Annual Evaluation Report, FY 2024-2025 - Prepared for First 5 Kern. Applied Survey Research. |
| 20. | Hess, C., Handman, R., & Wright, J. (2025). First 5 Lake Annual Evaluation Report, FY 2024-2025 - Prepared for First 5 Lake. Applied Survey Research. | |
| 19. | Hess, C., Handman, R., & Wright, J. (2025). First 5 Yuba Annual Evaluation Report, FY 2024-2025 - Prepared for First 5 Yuba. Applied Survey Research. | |
| 18. | Hess, C., Handman, R., & Wright, J. (2025). First 5 Sutter Annual Evaluation Report, FY 2024-2025 - Prepared for First 5 Sutter. Applied Survey Research. | |
| 17. | Hess, C., Handman, R., & Wright, J. (2025). First 5 Siskiyou Annual Evaluation Report, FY 2024-2025 - Prepared for First 5 Siskiyou. Applied Survey Research. | |
| 16. | Hess, C. & Wright, J. (2025). Childcare Strategic Plan - Prepared for the Plumas County Office of Education and Plumas County LPC. Applied Survey Research. | |
| 15. | Hess, C. & Wright, J. (2025). Childcare Needs Assessment - Prepared for the Plumas County Office of Education and Plumas County LPC. Applied Survey Research. | |
| 14. | Hess, C. & Wright, J. (2025). First 5 Plumas Strategic Plan 2026-2031 - Prepared for First 5 Plumas. Applied Survey Research. | |
| 13. | Wright, J. (2025). Parent/Guardian Survey on Childhood Immunization and Vaccination: Spring 2025 - Prepared for the Kern County Immunization Coalition. Applied Survey Research. | |
| 2024 | 12. | Wright, J. (2024). First 5 Kern Annual Evaluation Report, FY 2023-2024 - Prepared for First 5 Kern. Applied Survey Research. |
| 11. | Wright, J., Usacheva, M., & Flamenco, A (2024). Youth Suicide Prevention Gap Analysis - Prepared for the Sacramento County Department of Health Services, Division of Behavioral Health Services. Applied Survey Research. | |
| 10. | Wright, J. & Colvig-Niclai, L (2024). Developmental Screening Gap Assessment - Prepared for First 5 Kern County. Applied Survey Research. | |
| 9. | Wright, J. & Brutschy, S (2024). Universal Pre-Kindergarten and Mixed Delivery Survey: Spring 2024 - Prepared for the Santa Cruz County Office of Education. Applied Survey Research. | |
| 8. | Wright, J. & Colvig-Niclai, L (2024). Universal Pre-Kindergarten and Mixed Delivery Survey: Spring 2024 - Prepared for the Butte County Office of Education. Applied Survey Research. | |
| 2023 | 7. | Wright, J., Rosario, E., Schwartzbard, R., & Scott, C (2023). WY BILT project: Year 3 annual report - Prepared for the Wyoming Department of Education. Marzano Research. |
| 6. | Cherasaro, T., Keough, S., & Wright, J. (2023). Re-Imagining Remote Education in South Dakota: The ESF-REM Project; Final evaluation report - Prepared for the South Dakota Department of Education. Marzano Research. | |
| 5. | Scott, C., Wolfe, C., Rice, D., & Wright, J. (2023). Wyoming Accountability Part 1: An examination of the current system - Prepared for the Wyoming Department of Education. Marzano Research. | |
| 4. | Cherasaro, T., Rice, D., & Wright, J. (2023). Re-Imagining Remote Education in South Dakota: The ESF-REM Project; July-December 2022 biannual evaluation report 1 - Prepared for the South Dakota Department of Education. Marzano Research. | |
| 2022 | 3. | Scott, C., Tedeschi, S., Wolfe, C., & Wright, J. (2022). Empowering Teachers as Researchers: Evaluation of Professional Development in South Carolina - Prepared for the South Carolina Department of Education. Marzano Research. |
| 2. | Wright, J., Hubach, S., & Scott, C (2022). WY BILT Project: Year 2 annual report - Prepared for the Wyoming Department of Education. Marzano Research. | |
| 1. | Cherasaro, T. & Wright, J. (2022). Re-Imagining Remote Education in South Dakota: The ESF-REM Project; January-June 2022 biannual evaluation report 1 - Prepared for the South Dakota Department of Education. Marzano Research. |
Professional Presentations
| 2024 | 7. | Wright, J. (2024, May). Multidisciplinary Coordination and Communication to Guide Concussion Recovery. Paper presented at the Center on Brain Injury Research and Training,Webinar. |
| 2022 | 6. | Wright, J. (2022, October). Translating Executive Functioning Challenges into Treatment Implementation to Support Return-to-Learn in the mTBI Population. Paper presented at the Center on Brain Injury Research and Training,Webinar. |
| 2020 | 5. | Wright, J. & Sohlberg, M.M (2020, March). The Role of the SLP in Multidisciplinary Concussion Management for Adolescents Experiencing Persistent Concussion Symptoms (PCS). Paper presented at the Center on Brain Injury Research and Training,Webinar. |
| 4. | Wright, J. & Sohlberg, M.M (2020, March). Identifying Key Treatment Ingredients SLPs Utilize to Treat Prolonged Cognitive Symptoms Post-Concussion in Adolescents. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the University of Oregon Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences Continuing Education Opportunity Event, Eugene, OR. | |
| 2019 | 3. | Wright, J. & Sohlberg, M.M (2019, November). Identifying Key Treatment Ingredients SLPs Utilize to Treat Persistent Cognitive Symptoms Post-Concussion in Adolescents. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association National Conference, Orlando, FL. |
| 2. | Wright, J. & Sohlberg, M.M (2019, October). The Role of the SLP in Multidisciplinary Concussion Management for Adolescents Experiencing Persistent Concussion Symptoms (PCS). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Oregon Speech-Language Hearing Association State Conference, Salem, OR. | |
| 2014 | 1. | Wright, J. & Loucks, T (2014, February). Adaptation under Altered Auditory Feedback. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Rosemont, IL. |
Honors and Awards
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| 2. | Graduate Student Staff Excellence Award: College of Education, University of Oregon. (2019). The purpose of the Graduate Student Staff Excellence Award is to recognize graduate employees for their hard work and service to the College of Education. |
| 1. | Bullock Fund Scholarship Award: Department of Communication Disorders & Sciences, University of Oregon. (2019). The Bullock Fund is a state fund established through the will of Evelyn Bullock to support faculty and student research projects in Communication Disorders and Sciences. To be eligible for this award, graduate students must be making satisfactory progress toward completion of their graduate program. |