Optimia Consulting is devoted to helping institutions and organizations achieve their goals by designing strategies and aligning resources to ensure optimal engagement with all stakeholders.• Design and deliver yearly career preparation presentations to freshmen students at Thales College, resulting in students with polished résumés who are prepared for internship interviews.• Created and implemented process improvement activities for the Director of Operations and Academics at Thales Academy for JH and HS students, resulting in increased student engagement by 70%.• Designed a mediation course for 700 students in collaboration with the President of the American Academy of Alternative Dispute Resolution Attorneys; student teams earned 2nd & 3rd places at a national tournament.• Enabled access to education during COVID by developing interview preparation materials for over 100 university students in Colombia, South America, and presented the course via Zoom in Spanish.

• Recruited and mentored 14 Junior High (JH) and High School (HS) teachers and negotiated contracts to achieve 100% retention, a 7% improvement from prior years. • Designed the first professional development program for 20 JH and HS faculty and staff, which increased class engagement by 60% and the number of honor roll students by 15% YoY.• Inaugurated three new competitive academic clubs and programs, including Junior Classical League, Scripps Spelling Bee, and the Great History Challenge, which promoted the school and showcased our finalists as they competed at the regional and state levels.• Established student leadership programs that included developing the Youngsville Academy Student Council and mentoring faculty advisors, resulting in elected Executive Board members and class representatives who have established a positive culture that promotes school spirit.• Created the first annual Cotillion program. Strategically developed and aligned the spring semester home economics curriculum to provide etiquette classes and sewing skills for dress alterations. Successfully executed three Cotillion dances, each coming under budget by 25%.

Instructor in Business, December 2016 – July 2018• Designed and taught marketing, finance, and investing courses; mentored 12 teams to invest $100K each in “The Stock Market Game;” one team earned 2nd place out of 172 regional teams and 47 schools and was recognized by NC government representatives and Ally Financial executives.• Mentored students on statistical modeling in Excel to interpret admissions data from feeder schools and to recommend a targeted marketing campaign.

Director of Outreach and Marketing• Led a team of 15 to develop annual marketing and outreach campaigns, growing donor base by 250%; increased money raised per event by 60% and marketing budget by 2x.• Initiated two annual events and negotiated contracts with internationally recognized speakers and musicians, attracting 1K+ attendees each.

Financial Advisor• Built book of $5M + business in 6 months, providing average annual returns of 17% while customizing client portfolios with strategies designed to accumulate and preserve their wealth.

Director of Marketing• Developed a robust business plan for LinkSpace, to include company direction, positioning strategy, implementation plan, and goals for marketing and distribution.• Raised $5K in federal grants within the first month of working with the company, allowing the founder the ability to raise $10M+ through angel investors.

Industry Marketing Analyst (Summer Internship)• Prepared financial forecasts for an internal audit, resulting in the Industrial line of business marketing budget approval of over $4M for fiscal year 2002.

Senior Consultant• Led three teams to develop and implement 3-dimensional barcode methodology to enable tracking of 100K+ employee benefits.• Redesigned benefits workflow to eliminate >65% of corrupted data, improving processing time >50%.

Consultant• Managed a team of 10 consultants to develop and implement a highly customized financial system on UNIX platform for the Department of Interior, improving reporting times by 50%.• Selected as technical team lead out of 10 consultants for the Office of Personnel Management, improving accounting transaction times by 70%.