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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

Delivering Deal Value (M&A Advisory)

Greater Chicago Area

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Illinois Business Consulting is the nation's premier student-led fee-based consultancy that utilizes students of all academic disciplines and ages, from freshmen to MBAs to PhD students, to provide quality research and recommendations to a wide variety of clients.Senior Manager - 2 semesters - PresentCurrently as senior manager I oversee 3 client engagements including over 20 students over the three teams. As senior manager, I am responsible for managing all client interaction and acting as the liaison between client and the team. I also develop the project manager in the project scoping process and how to lead a team, set expectations, and get the best from the team. As a part of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), I seek to leave a lasting impact on the organization as a whole. An initiative I am working on with other senior managers is the knowledge transfer from current Project Managers to future Project Managers, better preparing them for their first semester in the position. Project ExperienceOver 9 projects I have provided actionable deliverables in go to market strategy, marketing, growth strategy, and pivot of business plan projects. These projects have been in a variety of industries and included tech-startups, and non-profit, and fortune 50 companies. Project Manager - 1 semesterLead team of 6 student consultants, personally and professionally developing them throughout the semester as well as providing quality market analysis and marketing plan deliverables for clientAllocate action items, lead discussions, challenge and motivate consultants to produce high-quality work, all while guiding the scope of the project and meeting set deadlinesConsultant - 2 semestersWorked for client in the farm industry specializing in data analytics. Developed and analyzed research on a weekly basis attempting to determine the outlook of a multi-billion dollar industry. Recommendation influenced multi-billion dollar acquisition of data analytics start up

San Jose, Ca

TMT Sector, IT Strategy and OperationsProject: Digital Transformation of IT department for Fortune 500 technology company-Created maturity assessment model for CIO to benchmark IT’s progress toward ideal state based on growing company needs identified through discussions with company executives and research on industry best practices-Developed cost acquisition model based on previous data to quickly determine resources and time needed to merge

Franklin Park, Il

Programmed pricing application in Excel VBA for custom deaerator units collaborating with the Engineering team to supply the sales team with a program to correctly select parts, price parts, and create a working schematic that met GD&T tolerances, flow rate safety factors, and ASME code Application increased pricing process efficiency by 600% Educated sales team on best use of application, security of proprietary data, and how to update pricing in the future

Addison, Illinois

Designed and developed fixtures from scratch using PTC Creo to be used in production and calibration of products. Modeled in consideration of a variety of end manufacturing processes. Several fixtures were to be machined from aluminum; other fixtures were rendered to be manufactured by injection molding, thus tooling costs and design had to be taken into accountSolicited prototype and production costs from different manufacturers to present to and prove the concept of my models to the engineering team and company executivesParticipated in meetings collaborating on the design of new and upcoming products, discussing constraints of the manufacturing process in conjunction with constraints by the marketing department on the look and practicality of the product

Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Illinois Business Consulting, Business Council, Sigma Phi Epsilon

Minor, The Hoeft Technology And Management Program

Develop leadership and business acumen in cross-disciplinary coursework with top-level engineering and business students Interact.