Roxanne Wallace
Roxanne is a project management professional who is recognized as a dynamic, versatile leader in various regional and national programs serving the federal government through data collection and analysis. She maintains an excellent record of staff leadership by developing multidisciplinary teams to broaden skills, grow excellence in oversight and efficiency, and provide mentorship to produce the next generation of leaders in federal, academic, and corporate organizations. Roxanne is a retired United States Marine Corps Veteran where she honorably served for over 20 years.
Roxanne has strengths in a variety of areas, including that she ensures quality and quantity, reviews analysis of cost and performance, oversees the phases of survey operations field activities, oversees automated data collection, data collection design, management, and execution, and data processing and dissemination.
Roxanne is currently part of the leadership team for the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for the 1979 and 1997 cohorts where she is the associate project director overseeing operations and project management activities. She has been the project director for the Career Decision-Making of Youths and Young Adults in the U.S., the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 2026 Needs Assessment and Content Panels, and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Measuring Cognitive and Social Skills. During her tenure at NORC, Roxanne also served as the project director for the Kinder Houston Area Survey and the project manager for the General Social Survey. Additionally, Roxanne is currently part of the leadership team for NORC’s Veterans Employee Resource Group and the Project Management Community of Practice.
For the 2020 Decennial Census, Roxanne supervised programs that directly impacted the effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity of the Regional Census Center (RCC) and the Census Bureau’s Decennial data collection programs. This work affects the agency’s overall mission and multi-region programs that will serve as a basis for future Decennial operations. As such, many of these programs are subject to frequent and/or intense scrutiny by Congress, media, advisory and oversight groups, and the general public.
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Education
MBA
Webster University
MA
Webster University
BS
Campbell University
Presidential Management Fellow
Office of Personnel Management
PMP (Project Management Professional)
Project Management Institute
Honors & Awards
Pi Gamma Mu | 2012
International Honor Society in Social Sciences