Good Seeds, Good Trees: The 3 Ms of Better Data Quality

As a Specialist Team Manager in the Community Administration Department, Allie Pope Burger will draw upon her 17 years of public sector experience in program evaluation, project management, data analysis, database development, grant writing, and system administration, primarily in the maternal and child public health field. She has co-authored two publications in peer-reviewed journals. Most recently, in her role as HMIS Data Manager for Montgomery County, PA, Allie was part of a Your Way Home’s Racial Equity projects and was dedicated to the CoC’s data efforts being both equitable and accessible. Additionally, Allie likes to nerd out about programming specifications: as Data Projects Manager for Family Health Initiatives, she worked on an HMIS implementation for Volunteers of America’s Safe Return program; as Data Manager for Your Way Home Montgomery County, she identified an issue with a national-level report for HUD. Allie has a Bachelor of Science in Sociology from Drexel University and a Master’s of Art Degree in Sociology from Rutgers University. She’s looking forward to expanding the reach of her work to support Bitfocus communities in finding solutions to their most pressing issues.

Amanda Flores is a Customer Success Account Manager at Bitfocus, and brings expertise in regulatory compliance, software training, data analysis, and HMIS leadership to the role. She has been in the human services industry since 2012, with experience in multiple areas of HMIS. As the HMIS Lead in San Antonio, Texas, she led a huge clean-up project that included code migration and updating of the HMIS, resulting in improved data quality overall. Amanda has experience in coordinated entry, CoC Governance, customer service, and technical support, which enables her to partner with our clients and solve issues effectively.