Summary
Jess Chandler is a Social Scientist and Data Scientist with 11 years of professional experience and a 15-year habit of automating repetitive work to free people for higher-value tasks. Currently at USDA Rural Development, she blends engineering rigor and policy insight to design pragmatic, human-centered data solutions informed by prior roles in program analysis, consulting, and development. Her background ranges from naval nuclear operations and a nuclear engineering MS to a PhD in energy policy, giving her a rare mix of technical depth and systems-level thinking. Jess has built practical tools across platforms—Microsoft Access, iOS apps, bash scripts—and enjoys partnering with teams to find the key question before engineering the right fix. Colleagues rely on her for reducing operational drudgery and translating complex requirements into usable, enduring workflows.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Nuclear Engineering, M.S., Nuclear Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Spanish, German