SUMMARY:
- Systems analysis and design, data modeling, data analysis
- Project management
- Training and meeting design and facilitation
- Research and report writing
- Strategic planning and organizational analysis of public, private, and non - profit organizations
- Fluent in Spanish; knowledge of French and Russian
- Traditional Chinese martial arts
- Creative writing
- Electronic music
SKILLS:
PC and Macintosh computer skills: MS Office, Visio, Project, InfoPath, SharePoint; SPSS, Toad, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Tableau
Database development: SQL scripting, SSRS, BIDS
Programming languages: C, C++, SQL, PLSQL, T-SQL
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Cambridge, MA
Senior Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Developed and populated tables, developed queries and procedures to enable remote access, and documented process.
- Analyzed a highway congestion pricing model as part of an economic team's review for the Confidential Administration.
- Flowcharted the model at a high level and at a detailed, step - by-step level after documenting the algorithm used.
- Identified assumptions, inputs, and dependencies between calculations for three different scenarios.
- Responded to data quality requests via the Confidential ’s Confidential system, a web-based data request tracking system.
- Responding to Confidential requests consisted of clarifying business rules, querying data from multiple database sources, analyzing and charting data, developing reports, and validating data using a variety of software.
- Responding to Confidential requests also required assisting junior analysts as needed.
- Coordinated and managed the production cycle for quarterly online reporting of the Confidential module, part of the Confidential ’s Analysis and Information website.
- Designed and developed reports, defined business requirements, and delegated tasks to team of SQL/PLSQL programmers and web developers.
- Facilitated testing to production of module.
- Analyzed annual strategic performance measure data, wrote report, and delivered the report to the Confidential Carrier and Safety Administration.
- Project execution required learning PLSQL, testing, and implementing PLSQL programming and automation of the processes necessary for data analysis and reporting of the results.
- This was the first project in this work group to use PLSQL and an automation process for data analysis and reporting.
- Designed and facilitated focus group sessions for research on stakeholder needs regarding the use of an Internet-based tool to promote the adoption of intelligent transportation systems standards for the Confidential Administration Joint Program Office.
- Conducted secondary and primary research and report writing for an organizational re-design of a CIO division within a public agency.
- Interviewed stakeholders and interviewed representatives of other agencies as part of best practices research.
Confidential, Boston, MA
Adjunct Professor
Responsibilities:
- Designed and taught strategic management, marketing, and organizational behavior to college management students.
- Taught using lecture, case analysis and discussion, and interactive in-class exercises.
- Evaluated students.
- Taught the capstone strategic management course and the organizational behavior course to an international group of management majors.
- Taught marketing to a diverse group of adult learners
Confidential, Boston, MA
Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Designed and delivered strategy projects for leading hi tech and manufacturing companies.
- Coordinated research, conducted interviews, planned and participated in the facilitation of workshops, wrote reports, supported presentations to clients, and assisted with project management.
- Developed sales proposals and presentations for new clients.
- Developed rich scenarios, events, and other materials of industry evolution for client decision-making, planning, and organizational learning.
- Designed and presented new value propositions and business model alternatives for the specialty chemical and performance polymer business unit of a global, diversified corporation. The company is using this framework to develop growth strategies and to improve its marketing to customers.
- Conducted competitive analysis and identified emerging business models and success factors for the delivery of software-as-a-service to support the initiatives of a major enterprise software and hardware vendor. The company used these findings to assess the viability of its current and future initiatives.
- Conducted secondary research and interviews, developed materials, and facilitated a two-day decision-making scenario planning session to enable a major telecommunications company to adapt its corporate strategy to reflect a transition into a new media company with distinct capabilities in commerce, content, and connectivity.
- Assisted the largest server business of a major IT vendor to reconceive its business strategy and refine its marketing for the next four years, based on the impact of e-business on customers’ business models.
Confidential, Boston, MA
Management Consulting Intern
Responsibilities:
- Planned and developed a web-based application prototype for an online auction of surplus property in order to improve the efficiency of a public agency’s workflow process and justify the IT investment through quick payback, a reduced cost structure, and increased revenues.
- Researched the use of IT in the public sector and conducted primary research by interviewing public agency staff. Synthesized key findings for use in the business case justification.
- Conducted a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the public agency’s transition from an AS-IS state to a TO-BE state and necessary changes.
- Assessed risks to this change and developed a risk management strategy.
- Wrote a white paper presenting the business case justification and ROI analysis for an online auction of surplus property.
- Contributed to the analysis, design, and development phases of the systems development life cycle, in order to build the application prototype.
Confidential, Boston, MA
JobMatch Director
Responsibilities:
- Advised and counseled over 300 young adults in job search, college/education application process, and career planning.
- Networked with Greater Boston-area businesses, nonprofits, public organizations, career resource centers, and colleges to place young adults in positions or in educational programs that resulted in more than 80% of young adults successfully securing jobs or enrolling in educational programs.
Confidential, Cambridge, MA
Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Coordinated the development of a computer literacy curriculum for use in Cambridge youth service programs.
- Managed and led a group of seven high school students to design a computer literacy curriculum to aid these students in teaching younger children.
- Facilitated group meetings, guided curriculum design, and created training manual for use by the Confidential .
Confidential, Boston, MA
Senior Team Leader
Responsibilities:
- Managed and led two diverse ten-member teams comprised of 17-25 year-old corps members in community service projects during two academic-calendar years.
- Managed service projects and relationships with community groups and sponsors, such as Mercer Management and Dyer Brown.