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Joe Fernander

Assistant Dean for Digital Innovation & Data Scientist

Joe serves as Assistant Dean for Digital Innovation and Data Scientist at USG eCampus. In this role, he provides direct leadership to the Data Science Team and strategic support leadership to the Salesforce Team. He focuses on leveraging data, technology, automation, and applied artificial intelligence to improve organizational efficiency, learning analytics to strengthen course design, and using student course metrics to enhance student success initiatives. Joe holds degrees in Religious Studies & Philosophy (B.A.), Higher Education Leadership (M.Ed.), and Educational Research & Statistics (M.S.). His technical skills include extensive experience in R programming (Shiny, Quarto, Plumber, ggplot2, ellmer, httr2, etc.), SQL and database management, quantitative methodologies, survey research, and measurement methodologies. He maintains industry-standard certifications in Tableau, Salesforce, and Qualtrics. Outside of work, Joe enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, camping, hiking, indoor rock climbing, fly fishing, practicing yoga, and reading dystopian literature.

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