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Chief Strategy and Analytics Officer · DC CAP

I design systems, build tools, and lead teams that deliver for DC students.

At DC CAP, we help scholars graduate from our partner universities, ready for D.C.'s workforce.

Preston Magouirk

Selected Work

A selection of strategic initiatives, data architecture projects, and research partnerships.

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DC CAP Innovation Hub — Responsible AI

Live

Enterprise AI Governance Framework

I designed and run DC CAP's enterprise AI Governance Framework: a 60-day pilot that puts nine staff across three units through a research-backed fluency model, with all materials public at dccapinnovation.org. It sets a four-tier data-classification standard that exceeds FERPA and federal-grant requirements, and it runs in-house with no outside consultant.

AI Governance Responsible AI Change Management Data Classification
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DC CAP Innovation Hub — Product

Building

Career Pathway Intelligence Platform

I'm building the Career Pathway Intelligence Platform, a recommendation engine that will help DC CAP students, counselors, and families compare college-and-career pathways. It synthesizes 19 federal data sources into roughly 400,000 ranked pathways, tested across the data pipeline, the ranking methodology, and the AI layer's defenses against fabricated output. It launches in October 2026.

Full-Stack Product Data Engineering AI Safety Recommendation Systems

DC CAP Analytics — Algorithm Design

Live

Scholar Matching Algorithm

I built the empirically validated matching algorithm DC CAP runs each year to allocate scholarship offers among roughly 700 applicants and 13 university partners. An exhaustive stability audit tested 9,100 candidate pairs with zero blocking pairs, and fairness mechanisms add neighborhood priority and within-school normalization. The 2026 cycle produced 140 priority matches and 70 waitlist offers.

Algorithm Design Stable Matching Fairness Mechanisms Applied Research

Technical Toolkit

The languages, frameworks, and platforms I use to build systems.

Data Science & Analysis

  • R (tidyverse)
  • Stata
  • Python (Pandas/NumPy)
  • SQL
  • Causal Inference
  • Survey Design

Engineering & Web

  • Astro
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Git / GitHub
  • VS Code + Cursor

Platforms & Strategy

  • Salesforce Education Cloud
  • Tableau
  • Financial Modeling
  • Strategic Planning

AI & Automation

  • AI System Design
  • Multi-Agent Orchestration
  • Workflow Automation