Meet the Team

Mr. Hoepfner has over nine years of professional experience conducting and directing education research and leads the quantitative team at Gibson.  He serves as the director of multiple survey research projects, including two yearly statewide special education surveys conducted in Texas. He also serves as the lead analyst for multiple program evaluations, including the evaluations of 21st Century programs in the State of Texas and Clark County, NV. Mr. Hoepfner specializes in complex survey administrations and analyses, projects requiring intricate or large-scale data management processes, and automated reporting (static LEA/campus reports and dashboards) for research and evaluation projects.

Prior to joining Gibson, Mr. Hoepfner worked as a Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, where he regularly presented complex methodological and theoretical material to non-experts. His work there focused on analyzing theoretical structures in survey data. Mr. Hoepfner holds a Master of Science from the University of Utah and was all but dissertation at the University of Pittsburgh in a PhD program in Political Science with emphases on Methods, Comparative Politics, and International Relations. He received extensive graduate training in research design and econometrics, including additional econometric training at the University of Michigan, and is a certified reviewer for the Institute of Education Sciences’ What Works Clearinghouse.