Akshar Patel Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, Nc, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Airtable is the No-Code App Platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes.

San Francisco, California, Us

Airtable is the No-Code App Platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes.Designing and building tailored Airtable apps for Enterprise clients, leveraging user feedback and best practices to enhance functionality and user experience.Conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to gather and analyze customer feedback, ensuring solutions meet client needs and exceed expectations.Creating and implementing workflows that integrate customer feedback into product development, optimizing client solutions and driving continuous improvement.Developing and maintaining documentation and training resources to support clients in utilizing Airtable apps effectively.Managing multiple projects concurrently, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional outcomes and exceed client expectations.Partnering with the Product Management and Engineering teams to prioritize the product roadmap based on insights gained from customer interactions and feedback.Drafting Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) for new Airtable features, working closely with the product and engineering teams to ensure successful development, testing, and deployment.

San Francisco, California, Us

Crafting tailored Airtable solutions for Enterprise clients, driving product sophistication and accelerating time to value.Partnering with Customer Success Managers to streamline client implementations, translating goals into comprehensive plans.Overseeing project scope, risks, and expectations, ensuring flawless execution from start to finish.Visualizing complex workflows, creating documentation, and training resources for seamless solution development.Translating technical concepts for diverse stakeholders, fostering collaboration and understanding.Managing multiple projects concurrently, exceeding client expectations through timely, exceptional solutions.Excelling in project management and communication, adeptly prioritizing and delivering exceptional outcomes.Notable Airtable Projects:-OKR Trackers-Product Roadmaps-Product Innovation Program Management-Marketing: Asset Production & Management-Digital Advertising-Facility Management: Construction timelines, budget management-Film & TV: Pre, Production, & Post Production-Pharmaceuticals: Stability Tracking

I work with clients on redefining what success means to them. In my sessions, we take a holistic approach to the job search, looking at each facet of your life and how it could benefit your career. My approach to finding a job involves identifying your network, tapping into key connections, and building relationships that will benefit you your entire career. I work with clients on:-Developing a job search strategy with key milestones leading to job placement-Career transition or career change for those looking to get to the next level or find a new path-Building a professional profile (Resume, Cover Letters, LinkedIn Pages, Portfolio, Websites)

Chicago, Illinois, Us

MBA 529: Social Entrepreneurship

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Instruct 400 level senior capstone courses on applying design thinking principles to global health and wellness challenges by showing students how to build empathy for a community and communicate solutionsLeverage global partnerships with NGOs and community organizations to help students connect with real stakeholders and develop innovative solutions through grassroots campaignsLecture weekly to 50 students each week on design thinking and core principles on building empathy, defining a problem, diverging then converging to a feasible solution

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Improved volunteer-led event processes by developing a volunteer centric model focused on serving alumni needs for events such as social gatherings, reunion events, and international gatheringsDeveloped annual alumni engagement strategy involving regional travel, online engagement, and peer to peer solicitation plans for university initiativesIdentify, recruit, train, develop, solicit and steward leaders and volunteers for key U.S. regional marketsTravel and represent the university at local and out-of-town alumni events and speak on behalf of the university at over 15 annual events around the country

Chicago, Illinois, Us

CAREER COACHINGCoacheded more than 1,500 students and alumni during 2015-17 school years in one on one meetings on career related goal setting, resume/cover letter writing, and interview preparation to create successful outcomes throughout employment search processEngineering specific career coaching leading to growth in student first destination placements to 90%Cultivate relationships with campus partners from student organizations to professional membership organizations to provide career development and career related services. Focused on building a trusted brand across the Illinois Tech campus with on campus stake holdersManage team of student workers and graduate interns, equivalent to 3 full-time staff members, on daily office operations including data entry, new employer lead generation, and student follow-upCAREER SERVICES MANAGEMENT TOOLS IMPLEMENTATION (CRMs)Managing a digital implementation of Handshake CRM across campus; directly working with account managers to transition Experience Module from legacy to new CRM while onboarding campus partnersDrive business requirement gathering sessions and functional analysis to aid University in streamlining processes for improved communication between schools, employers, and academic advisorsOffered feedback to Symplicity on streamlining processing flows leading to better communication between schools, employers, and academic advisorsEXPERIENTIAL LEARNINGSuccessfully implemented new web based Experiential Learning (internship/co-op) process that generated faster processing time, and built capacity to measure student growth through evaluationsIncreased revenue generation by increasing processing to over 300 yearly applications of Experiential Learning authorizationsCollaborated with International Center, Student Accounts Office, and Academic Affairs Office to review, write and rewrite internship and co-op policies to align with regional and national policies at competitor universities

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Scoping, implementation, and training of new technologies to support the Kaplan Institute functions including Copper CRM, project management tools, marketing, and web development platformsSuccessfully built partnerships with various campus partners to ensure the smooth transition from virtual classes to hybrid classes by creating a safe, socially distant learning environment with necessary technology enhancementsDesigned a student startup accelerator, with 25 teams and 30 industry mentors, dedicated to incubating student teams working on startup ideas by providing access to industry mentors and personalized coachingCreated a campus-wide campaign soliciting students to submit startup ideas to join the inaugural cohortProvided training to all student members and industry mentors on an online incubation platform that provided a self-paced educational curriculum to assist in creating team business plansHosted a virtual pitch competition for top 5 teams in the accelerator and awarded $50,000 in prize moneySupported executive director in raising funds for new programs and built an operations team focused on executing the strategic plan for the Kaplan InstituteCollaborated with each project director to create needs assessments and draft proposals for donorsWrote stewardship reports on all funds raised to keep donors apprised of project performancePerformed budget management tasks such as monitoring spending against projected annual budget and presented quarterly reports to executive director and board of advisorsAssisted leaders to identify priorities, define focus, and strategically align their time to achieve desired outcomes, while shaping objectives, KPIs, and financial goals

Chicago, Illinois, Us

The Kaplan Institute will nurture the advancement of critical and creative ideas, foster interdisciplinary and external collaboration, and create a culture that enables innovation and tech entrepreneurship to flourish on campus and throughout the larger community as well. Led campus-wide committee focused on scoping and implementing a single CRM for corporate relations that resulted in more departments sharing information and aligning on a uniform corporate relations strategyInterviewed stakeholders from across the university to understand their current needs in tracking corporate partners, interactions, and partner relationshipsCollaborated with Office of Technology Services (OTS) to present the needs of each department and provided the developers direction on the best configuration of Salesforce for campus corporate relationsPresented mock-ups of dashboards to show university leadership the value of a centralized CRMImplemented a campus-wide Slack instance as an initial way to encourage communication between campus departments interacting with the same corporate partnersExecuted the executive director’s vision to bring high profile entrepreneurs and public figures to the Kaplan Institute to engage with over 1000 Illinois Tech students, faculty, partners in a 3-month timeframe Coordinated a team of event planners, AV staff, and student volunteers from across campus to execute a seamless experience for attendees, VIP guests, and the speakersImplemented the use of Eventbrite to improve the registration/check-in process and automatically add all registrants to Mailchimp to create a more efficient process for sending campaignsCreated targeted marketing campaigns (email and social media) to attract the right attendees to each event based on the speaker’s area of expertiseSpeakers included: Kevin O’Leary (Shark Tank), Harper Reed (CTO, Obama 2012), Dean Abbott (SmarterHQ)

Burlington, Vt, Us

Key Accomplishments:1. Part of recruiting the largest and most competitive class in the history of the college with a 60% acceptance of more than 5,500 applications, and yield 580 students for the Fall 2014 incoming class.2. Streamlined international student communication and created new emphasize on utilizing chat based, and video conference tools to add human touch to international recruitment process. International Admission CounselorReviewed admission applications for all international applicants. Utilized data extraction softwares such as, Entrinsik Informer, to create reports projecting enrollment Maintained databases of contacts within high schools and consulting agencies across United StatesTraveled within Northeastern US to recruit high school seniors during individual high school visits, large district and county college fairs, and off site college recruitment eventsCommunicated in both English and Gujarati to prospective students to ease tension of college admission processes Advocated for students who showed great potential in college success through personal interviews but we're not performing as strongly in academicsCounseled students on college admissions process by breaking down deadlines, streamlining open communication, and creating a warm and welcoming culture regardless of where students intended on going to college High School & Independent College Counselor Liaison, Alumni & Development Office Liaison

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Oversaw the scheduling, training, and evaluation of 15 Student AmbassadorsCreated campus evaluation survey to collect feedback from visitors and analyzed collected data to extract strengths/weaknesses of the visitor experience then spearheaded a new model for the visitor experience Corresponded with international applicants throughout the admission process by developing and implementing a communication plan to streamline application updates and utilize features of recruitment software solutionsDesigned alternative applications for students with limited internet access using HTML form builders leading to the systematization of the collection and integration of documents onto a digital platformCollected, validated, and prepared official documents for both F-1 and J-1 visa requirements in turn creating an expedited delivery of I-20 and DS2019 documents to international studentsCreated various email templates that are used to update international students about missing documents, application status, and current events on campusDesigned, promoted, and attended both on and off campus events directed specifically for prospective or admitted students where appropriate university information was conveyedScheduled meetings with applicants interested in the fields of engineering to ensure thorough understanding of their engineering discipline and the opportunities of special dual-degree and co-terminal programs offered

Master Of Education (Med), Interdisciplinary Studies

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Civil Engineering