EMILY T. STONEHAM

• Data scientist supporting climate culture and diversity at USAFA headquarters across 5 mission elements
• Responsible for data analysis and research related to acquisition, education, and retention of more than 4000 cadets and 2000 airmen
• Provided subject matter expertise in 12 statistical data reviews.
• Developed and updated 30 tracking spreadsheets using Excel and SPSS.
• Used SPSS to model data and forecast trends of 4000 Cadets.
• Created 2 custom reports and visualizations to support decision-making processes.
• Consulted with 10 stakeholders to develop operational strategies and processes.
• Assessed operational performance to identify 4 major areas for improvement as listed in the Strategic Development Plan.
• Created the USAFA data working group (meets once a month) designed to coordinate reporting and analysis methods across the institution.

• Assessed employee performance and developed improvement plans for 7 people.
• Maintained friendly and professional customer interactions with 3 major customers.
• Interviewed and hired 8 talented individuals with top-level strengths, improving organizational talent, and skill sets.
• Met deadlines by proactively managing multiple individual and team tasks and streamlining processes for 3 test and 2 software programs.
• Enhanced branch production rates by handling staff conflicts, evaluations, hiring, and termination processes and coaching employees on company protocol for Naval operations.
• Expanded our customer base and area of responsibility from 1 to 3
• Stood up a new human performance lab for research and applied testing that offered unique training and evaluation opportunities for the F-18 and UAS community that would save more than $75,000 yearly in training costs.

• Participated in test and evaluation of the software and hardware in development for the F-18 E/F and F-18 FMS.
• Evaluated human performance during 10 flight tests test in order to analyze feasibility, design, operation and performance of equipment, components, and systems.
• Created 2 test plans and wrote 2 technical reports on findings during test.
• Interacted with subject matter experts to develop training material and tools for more than 300 personnel.
• Participated in 12 formal internal design reviews of proposed products and components.
• Wrote, reviewed and edited more than 5 technical documents in accordance with requirements.
• Developed work plans for 8 personnel roles based on strengths and talents.

• Wrote research reports, reviews, and presented findings regarding human performance in single cockpit fighters (F-18), Manned-Unmanned teaming, and tactical operation in the P-3 and P-8.
• Utilized Electroencephalogram and Eye-Tracking software and equipment to identify patterns of behavior and attention for 3 projects.
• Acquired more than $250,000 in equipment and supplies necessary for projects.
• Identified 2 sources of funding to prepare research proposals and submit funding applications.
• Utilized 4 statistical packages to analyze data and create visualizations.
• Reviewed technical and professional publications and journals to stay current on recent literature and make more strategic research decisions.

Projects

• NISE 219BAR-14-027: NAWCAD 2014 0005 Evaluation of Objective Workload Measures during an Unmanned Air Vehicle Task
• NISE 219BAR-15-026: NAWCAD.2016.0002 Investigation Of Manned / Unmanned Teaming In A Simulated Tactical Environment
• NAWCAD_2016_0005 Monitoring and controlling multiple UAV assets within complex environments
• NAWCTSD.2015.0003-IR-TSD 219 Decision Making for Human-Machine Collaboration in Complex Environments
• ONR Control Station Human Machine Interface; CaSHMI.

• Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience work at George Mason University centered on gene therapy to mitigate effects of early life, chronic stress in the adult rodent
• Utilized a unique chimeric receptor, rodent cannulation and infusion, behavioral assessment, histochemistry (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry, and Western blot), electrophysiology, cell culture, plasmid extraction to include transformation through riboprobe production, limited DNA transfection and viral vector generation
• Additionally, worked in an fMRI laboratory to process data from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies using the Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM5) and FMRI Research Library (FSL) suites of software tools
• This research investigated the cognitive systems involved in complex reasoning and decision-making
• Worked as a teaching assistant for 2 scientific writing courses at the upper undergraduate level.

• Subject Matter Expert responsible for human factors requirements on the V-22 Osprey Program
• Responsible for the planning, creation, and test of human factors issues in Return to Flight Test for both the MV-22B and the CV-22B
• Pilot vehicle interface consultant for the Navy for oversight of the integration of advanced technological systems employed in cockpit management on the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF; F-35)
• Participated in formal internal design reviews of all aviation platforms (Preliminary Design and Critical Design Reviews).
• Human factors and human systems integration lead for the Marine’s Heavy Lift Replacement Helicopter (CH-53K), as well as legacy projects for the CH-53E
• Additional responsibilities were to manage, coordinate, and motivate the five Human Systems team members on the program.

• Lead human factors engineer for the research and test of the B-1B crew station controls and displays, primarily for the weapons and defensive systems operators (WSO, DSO)
• Evaluated, documented, and initiated designs for a Graphical User Interface to improve the statement of work (SOW) process between the engineering disciplines and administration by moving them from an intensive paper only process to an automated digital process
• My efforts on the SOW process were recognized as a critical improvement my initial concept and designs were given to an outside company in order to be officially developed for use across the B-1B engineering community.
• Read literature related to human factors in aviation to remain current in knowledge.
• Maintained accurate records of all methods and tests conducted and wrote in-depth technical reports.

• Human factors design consultant working with Hughes Aircraft Company while representing the Air Force in a unique educational program designed to educate the military in a related contractor field
• Learned essential web GUI design and evaluation utilizing Adobe products (Illustrator, Photoshop), and the contractor side of graphical user interface design for a DARPA intelligent tutoring project
• Worked in Armstrong Laboratories in display evaluation, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, and research of web-based intelligent agent technologies in virtual environments
• Conducted research to test and analyze feasibility, design, operation and performance of equipment, components, and systems.

• Reviewed the Stores Management Operational Flight Program (SMOFP) during development to operational test and evaluation for the definition, design and development of the following B-2B munitions: Global Positioning System (GPS), Global Aided Targeting Systems (GATS), GPS Aided Munitions (GAM), Joint Defense Attack Munitions (JDAM), and Tri-Service Standoff Attack Munitions (TSSAM)
• Human Factors Engineer responsible for B-2B maintainer and aircrew interface evaluations during both the Eglin AFB developmental climatic tests and the Eielson AFB operational climatic tests

• 4.0 GPA

Dissertation: Behavioral, hormonal, and tissue biomarkers of stress regulation in young adult rats after different schedules of early life stress: Eustress versus distress.

• Committee Chair: Dr. Theodore C Dumas (GMU)
• Committee Members: Dr. Kim Blackwell (GMU), Dr. Dan Cox (GMU), Dr. Daniela Kaufer (UC Berkeley)

Research Projects

• Investigation of early biomarkers for impending memory failure following consecutive and intermittent bouts of maternal separation. Stoneham, ET, Samipour, S, Liehr, N, McHail, D, Lee, C, Dumas, TC. Society for Neuroscience Poster (766.01), San Diego, CA, 2013.
• Effects of maternal separation stress schedule and hippocampal gene therapy on the mechanisms that support spatial memory in young adult rats. Stoneham, ET, Samipour, S, McHail, D, Al-Haj, A, Jiang, S, Dumas, TC. Society for Neuroscience Poster (388.15), New Orleans, LA, 2012.
• Genetic-based silencing of hippocampal pyramidal cells, via allatostatin receptor expression, impairs spatial navigation. Published: Stoneham, ET, Saadat, VM, Evans, RC, Sanders, EM, Dumas, TC; Society for Neuroscience Poster (388.11), Chicago, IL, 2009.
• Neural systems of color relational complexity. Halavi, M, Debettencourt, M, Shaw, A, Donohue, M, Kopperman, R, Serpati, L, Roberts, J, Stoneham, ET, Kalbfleisch, M. Society for Neuroscience Nanosymposium, Baltimore, MD, 2008.

Publications

• Stoneham, E.T., McHail, D.G., Samipour-Biel, S., Liehr, N., Lee, C.M., Evans, J.C., Boggs, K., & Dumas, T.C. (2021). Spatial Learning Is Impaired in Male Pubertal Rats Following Neonatal Daily but Not Randomly Spaced Maternal Deprivation. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 9:621308. https://doi:10.3389/fcell.2021.621308
• Stoneham, E.T., McHail, D.G., Boggs, K., Albani, S., Carty, J., Colman-Evans, R., Hamilton, K.A., Saadat, V., Hussain, S., Greer, M., & Dumas, T.C. (2017). Functional perturbation of forebrain principal neurons reveals differential effects in novel and well-learned tasks. Brain Res. Volume 1671, Pages 1-13 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2017.06.024
• Blair, M., Nguyen, N., Albani, S., L'Etoile, M., Andrawis, M., Owen, L., Oliveira, R., Johnson, M., Purvis, D., Sanders, E., Stoneham, E., Xu, H., & Dumas, T.C. (2013) Developmental changes in structural and functional properties of hippocampal AMPA receptors parallels the emergence of deliberative spatial navigation in juvenile rats. Journal of Neuroscience, 2013 Jul 24; 33(30): 12218-12228
• Stoneham, E.T., Sanders, E. M., Sanyal, M., T. C. Dumas. 2010. Rules of engagement: factors that regulate activity-dependent synaptic plasticity during neural network development. Biol. Bull. 219(2): 81-99.
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• 4.0 GPA
• Thesis: Audio cues to identify the friendliness of air combatants during combat flight operations

• 3.5 GPA