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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 DC CAP's enterprise AI Governance Framework and ran the 60-day pilot that introduced it to nine staff across three units, with all materials public at dccapinnovation.org. The framework sets a four-tier data-classification standard that exceeds FERPA and federal-grant requirements, it adapts a research-backed fluency model, 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 15 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 its applicants and university partners. In the 2026 cycle it weighed roughly 700 applicants against 13 partner universities. An exhaustive stability audit tested 9,100 candidate pairs with zero blocking pairs, and fairness mechanisms add neighborhood priority and within-school normalization. That 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)
  • Python (Pandas/NumPy)
  • SQL
  • Causal Inference
  • Survey Design

Engineering & Web

  • Astro
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Git / GitHub

Platforms & Strategy

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

AI & Automation

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