Aaron D. Schroeder, Ph.D.
Information Integration and Informatics Scientist,
  Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance
Visiting Assistant Professor,
  Virginia Tech Center for Public Administration and Policy
aaron.schroeder@vt.edu

Dr. Schroeder has extensive experience in information systems analysis and integration, policy and program development and implementation, quantitative and qualitative methodologies of evaluation, and the general application of data and web technologies to the enhancement of public and private sector services.

Dr. Schroeder currently serves as an Information Integration and Informatics Scientist at Virginia Tech’s Institute for Policy and Governance (VT-IPG) where he is responsible for planning, securing and executing major research projects focused on the techniques, methods, and theories related to the integration, storage, retrieval, sharing, and optimal use of policy-relevant data, information, and knowledge for the purposes of policy analysis and program evaluation.

A particular focus in this role has been on the integration and analysis of education, health, social service and non-profit administrative data streams for the purpose of conducting policy analyses and program evaluations impacting a wide range of constituents, including: pre-K child social and health service recipients; child care service operators; primary, secondary, post-secondary and adult education service recipients; state workforce training service recipients; and, U.S. veteran health and social service recipients.

Continuing, high-profile information integration projects in the Commonwealth of Virginia are the USHHS-funded Project Child HANDS and the USED-funded Statewide Longitudinal Data System. A previous high-profile information integration project was the design, development, deployment, and evaluation of the U.S.’s first statewide travel information system, Virginia 511.

Dr. Schroeder also serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor for Virginia Tech’s Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP) teaching Policy & Program Evaluation, Research Methods & Statistics, and Applied Management Technologies.