Temidayo Ekundayo
Piscataway,New Jersey
Summary
Assessment Manager with a proven track record in enhancing productivity and task efficiency. Expertise in data analysis, strategic planning, and program evaluation. Strong leadership and problem-solving skills drive impactful assessments and organizational improvements. Dedicated to promoting team collaboration and achieving precise, adaptable results.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assessment Manager
Success Academy Charter Schools
New York, NY
09.2025 - Current
- Set the long-term assessment strategy for the network, defining priorities, success metrics, and system requirements that align assessments with the instructional vision and organizational goals.
- Provided executive-level guidance and thought partnership to academic and school leadership teams, ensuring assessment data directly informed strategic planning, resource allocation, and instructional design.
- Championed network-wide assessment quality and rigor, implementing standards, governance structures, and review cycles that elevated item validity, reliability, and comparability across grades and subjects.
- Oversaw complex, multi-team execution cycles, ensuring cross-departmental coordination (Curriculum, Data, Ops, Tech), and delivering predictable, high-fidelity assessment experiences for thousands of students.
- Built high-leverage reporting systems for senior stakeholders, synthesizing network performance into clear, actionable insights that shaped academic initiatives, talent development, and accountability structures.
- Led organizational change in assessment practices, identifying systemic challenges, proposing scalable solutions, and securing buy-in from senior leadership to modernize tools, processes, and leadership behaviors.
Assessment Specialist
Success Academy Charter Schools
New York, New York
06.2024 - 09.2025
- Designed and refined K–8 interim and end-of-year assessments to ensure tight alignment with the SA curriculum, resulting in clearer measurement of student mastery, and improved instructional targeting.
- Analyzed large-scale student performance datasets to identify mastery gaps and trends across schools, producing actionable insights that informed teacher coaching and network-wide instructional strategies.
- Built intuitive dashboards and data reports in Excel, Sheets, and Tableau that enabled school leaders and teachers to quickly interpret assessment outcomes and drive data-informed decision-making.
- Led training sessions and professional development for teachers on assessment literacy, item analysis, and effective use of data to adjust instruction, improving teacher implementation consistency and assessment accuracy.
- Collaborated with curriculum, operations, and school-based teams to ensure smooth assessment administration, troubleshoot issues, and improve testing processes for higher fidelity and efficiency.
- Conducted rigorous quality and psychometric checks on assessment items (difficult, alignment, reliability), and partnered with network stakeholders to revise or replace items to strengthen overall assessment validity. Conducted assessments for student learning and development across multiple grade levels.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, Cum Laude
New Jersey City University
Jersey City, NJ05.2023
Skills
- Leadership with management expertise
- Accurate task execution
- Large team management
- Strategic project execution
- Able to adapt quickly in high-paced environments
- Effective communicator
- Critical thinking and problem-solving abilities
- Team player and collaborator
- Task prioritization and deadline management
- Active listener
- Critical analysis
- Out-of-the-box solutions
- Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel expertise
Certification
- Data Visualization: Empowering Business with Effective Insights with Tableau, Tata - 2023
- Bloomberg Market Concepts with Bloomberg Terminal, SFS Group - 2019
Timeline
Assessment Manager
Success Academy Charter Schools
09.2025 - Current
Assessment Specialist
Success Academy Charter Schools
06.2024 - 09.2025
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, Cum Laude
New Jersey City University