Resume

Research operations,
data systems,
and the AI layer on top.

At the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center, University of Washington, I manage national programs for the Alzheimer's research community, and I build the systems underneath them. An award program, a researcher directory covering 37 centers, an ADRD funding tracker, and a self-hosted AI stack I designed and run myself. Research analyst, presenter, scientific writer, and instructor along the way.

359%
award program growth
1,379
meeting attendance, up from 320
111
mentors recruited
37
research centers served
Amy Young
Experience

Where I've done it.

Open a role for the detail.

Program management. Direct the New Investigator Award Program and the NACC Directory for a national research community spanning 37 Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers.

Stakeholder engagement. Maintain relationships across NACC, the ADRC network, the National Institute on Aging, and the wider AD/ADRD research community.

Database management. Design and manage NACC's researcher database, a 1,500+ variable system that powers communications, data platform access, surveys, funding programs, publications, and ADRC leadership opportunities.

Communications. Lead content development for the New Investigator Award Program, the ADRC Research Education Component, development of NACC's new website, naccdata.org, and instructional and support content for the ADRC researcher database and NACC Data Platform onboarding. Previously led communications for the hybrid bi-annual ADRC Meetings from 2021 to 2026, growing attendance from 320 to 1,379 and setting a record at every meeting, then trained my successor into the role.

Research and dissemination. Run research studies for the New Investigator Award Program and NACC's research education work, and present the findings to a national audience. Most recently a report on trends in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among new and early-career investigators, delivered at the 2025 Fall ADRC Meeting.

AI integration. Apply AI across the role: content, web development, design, publishing, funding research, workflow automation, and presentations, tuned to a research community where the domain detail has to be right.

Selected work

Five that moved the number.

New Investigator Awards Program

359% growth

Grew the program from 2 to 13 annual awards over three years, running RFA development, eligibility verification, the platform transition, and the Scientific Review Committee panels. The mentorship program alongside it started at zero and now runs on 111 recruited AD/ADRD mentors, with the evaluation and tracking framework built to match.

Research Education Landscape Study

37 centers

A study I designed to look across the whole 37-center ADRC ecosystem and find the training and funding programs that work best. It gives NACC an evidence base for how it supports new and early-career investigators nationally, instead of a set of assumptions about it.

NACC Directory

1,500+ variables

A REDCap-backed directory for the ADRC network. I lead the technical updates, the UX work, and the training, and drove contact data to 100 percent validation across 1,500+ variables for all 37 research centers, which is what makes it usable as the network's collaboration hub.

ADRC Meetings

320 → 1,379

Attendance went from 320 to 1,379 research professionals between 2021 and 2026 through targeted outreach inside a niche scientific community, setting a record at every bi-annual meeting since 2021. I trained my successor into the role.

amyyoung.me

Ships itself

The site you're reading. Astro and Tailwind on the surface, and underneath it the delivery path itself encoded as agent skills: Claude Code skills that carry the design system, gate every change on a type check and a production build, and run the staging-to-production deploy loop. Both versions of this resume ship through it.

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Skills

What I
build with.

Everything listed here comes off a system I have actually built and still run. The first line of each group is what I reach for daily.

AI and Agentic Systems

10 tools and methods

  • Agent harness design
  • Knowledge graph engineering
  • Custom MCP server

Claude Code hooks and permissions · Tool allowlisting · Postgres + PostgREST · LLM entity extraction · n8n workflow automation · Deterministic retrieval · Anthropic Claude API

Developer Tooling

7 tools and methods

  • Claude Code
  • VS Code
  • Docker

Python API clients · GitHub CLI · Cursor · OpenAI Codex

Market Research

8 tools and methods

  • Quantitative methods
  • Qualitative methods
  • Competitor profiling

Web and marketing platform analysis · Voice of customer research · Social and market intelligence tooling · FireCrawl · Perplexity API

Data and Analytics

7 tools and methods

  • REDCap
  • SQL and PostgreSQL
  • R and RStudio

Qualtrics · SPSS · Tableau · Power BI

Web Development

8 tools and methods

  • Astro
  • WordPress
  • Tailwind CSS

Claude Design · Lovable · Replit · Information architecture · SEO and answer-engine optimization

Infrastructure

6 tools and methods

  • Self-managed VPS
  • Docker Compose
  • Caddy reverse proxy

Ubuntu · Tailscale · Security hardening

Communication and Design

8 tools and methods

  • Copywriting
  • Brand design and development
  • Institutional technical communications

Email marketing · CRM development and management · Report and presentation design · UX/UI · Training and educational content

Education and recognition

Degrees, awards, and service.

Education

2024

Master of Science, Information Management

University of Washington. Data Analytics and Business Intelligence; Program and Product Management.

1991

Bachelor of Arts, Sociology and Statistics

University of Minnesota.

Recognition

2021

Certificate of Appreciation

National Institute on Aging, Division of Neuroscience, for contributions to NACC's Uniform Data Set v4.

Service

2015–26

Board Member

Delridge Neighborhood Development Association, a Seattle organization providing affordable housing and free arts, sports, and nature programming for young people.

Memberships

  • University of Washington AI Community of Practice
  • HITLAB Center for AI Testing and Evidence
  • American Health Information Management Association
  • International Association of Privacy Professionals
  • Data Management Association
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