Kevin Zish
Cognitive Scientist and Human Factors Engineer
- Role
- Senior Human Factors Engineer at Global Systems Technologies, Llc Gst
- Location
- Fairfax, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kevin Zish
Human Factors Engineer and Cognitive Scientist ensuring that organizations don’t just implement technology and policies—they implement technology and policies that work. I run end-to-end test and evaluation efforts to identify hidden obstacles, validate assumptions, and deliver precise, plain language answers to decision-makers when they need them most.
Experience
Senior Human Factors Engineer
Global Systems Technologies, Llc Gst
Aug 2018 — Present · Washington, DC, US
Supervisor: Charles McKee, Program Manager* Provided end-to-end test and evaluation services (e.g, study design, test plans, study development/coding, data processing, management, cleaning, visualization, advanced statistical analysis, predictive modeling, interpretation, and reporting).* Developed focus group plans, surveys, and simulated systems (PsychoPy) to investigate task switching, interface design, training, face matching, and threat detection, among others.* Developed GUI requirements based on data and standards for common interfaces for all future Computed Tomography systems and On-Person Screening systems used by the Transportation Security Administration.* Used cloud-based systems to collect data remotely from multiple locations simultaneously.* Managed, merged, collected, and corrected human performance data from a variety of systems including simulators/emulators, deployed equipment, and log files.* Programmatically processed, tagged, and summarized large volumes of text to identify common pain points experienced by users.
Education
The College of New Jersey
Bachelor of Arts, Cognitive Science
2007 — 2011
George Mason University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Human Factors and Applied Cognition
2014 — 2020
George Mason University
Master of Arts (MA), Human Factors and Applied Cognition
2012 — 2014
Skills
- Research
- Statistics
- Experimental Design
- Research Design
- Microsoft Office
- Psychology
- Data Analysis
- Teaching
- Cognition
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Psychology
- Eye Tracking
- Public Speaking
- Critical Thinking
- R
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Human Factors
- Science
- Cognitive Science
- Amazon Mechanical Turk
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