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Saint Paul, MN, US

Burnsville, Minnesota, United States

My responsibilities include understanding and communicating customer requirements to the Product Development Team, managing quotations for complex standard products and specials, and supporting the Sales Channel with customer requirements.

• Managed the planning and execution of collaboration on a National Science Foundation grant to promote the ecological legacy of the Amazon Rainforest by building a website, curating a social media presence, and.
• Served as Team Representative by handling the relationship with our client, managing all e-mail communications, and answering any questions.
• Led presentation development, focusing on crafting a strong narrative that we presented over six times.

University Of Georgia

• President (2023), Treasurer (2021 - 22), Secretary (2020 - 21), Public Relations Manager (2021)
• Planned club functions, lead lessons on Japanese related topics, and guided conversation during weekly meetings.
• Managed club funds and set up fundraising events with various local businesses.
• Coordinated participation in Night Market fundraising event which resulted in revenue of over $1,200.
• Maintained written records of club meetings and events in Google Drive.
• Designed promotional material using Canva for Instagram posts and daily stories.

Tanzania

• Accepted into highly competitive, fully funded Group Projects Abroad program teaching Robotics in Tanzania.
• Taught primary, intermediate, and collegiate students and educators robotics to be sustainably integrated into the education system.
• Led workshops teaching programming, engineering foundations, and robot design.
• Attended Kiswahili lessons, practicing on my own with the locals as well.
• Studied Tanzanian and East African culture.

• Worked in a five-person team on a total of 10+ business case studies, delivering presentations detailing findings and solutions weekly to representatives of the companies who created each case.
• Interviewed PwC employees in weekly teleconference meetings to complete and present a NIST Maturity Assessment.

• Tutored UGA NCAA student athletes in MIS, Communications, and Business classes through weekly Zoom sessions for up to 20 hours a week.
• Updated online portal with tutoring reports detailing content of each session and student’s progress.
• Attended frequent training sessions and maintained required confidentiality in regards to student athletes' information.

University Of Georgia

• President (2021 – 22), Outreach Head (2020 – 21), Project Head (2019 – 20)
• Led club meetings, executive team meetings, and served as club representative for 20+ members.
• Guided executive team in planning workshops and events designed to teach robotics concepts to Georgia FIRST Robotics teams.
• Mentored high school students on the design, construction, and presentation of a robot for FIRST FTC (Tech Challenge) and FLL (Lego League) competitions.
• Designed and taught engaging lesson plans and activities to guide 11 elementary schoolers to create a presentation on sustainability in cities for competition.
• Collaborated with community members to promote robotics education in Athens, Georgia. Volunteered at competitions and managed recruitment efforts.

University Of Georgia

• Gathered Chicago housing and financial statistics over a 50-year period through conducting online research to be compiled into one Excel file for further analysis and comparison in R.

Macon, Georgia, United States

• Planned and performed classical, hymnal, and modern music for services and special events.
• Selected music to complement lecture topics in collaboration with the Choir Director and Pastor.

• Created content for various platforms including an online blog and social media accounts.
• Managed event submissions to community calendars for 3 regional markets.
• Engaged customers with strategic photo-shoots from Goodwill stores related to popular cultural events, trends, and novel items.
• Wrote a variety of promotional articles centered around fashion and uploaded them using WordPress.

• Editor in Chief (2017-19), Technology Specialist (2017-18), News Anchor (2017-19), News and Features Editor (2016-17)
• Founded a newspaper and broadcast journalism team at my high school called "The Husky Howler."
• Directed all online newspaper operations.
• Wrote weekly articles and edited every article that was submitted.
• Anchored and recorded broadcasts as a news anchor and camera operator.
• Led and scheduled the meetings and worked closely with our advisors and Mercer student volunteers to make sure the club ran smoothly. The newspaper is still running, reaching 500+ people on Instagram and 70+Twitter.

Macon, Georgia, United States

• Created, designed, and oversaw all steps of the promotional process, which included creating logos and designs, writing personalized letters for potential and previous sponsors, and making informational material to be.
• Wrote and was awarded a grant for $10,000, of which my team was awarded the full amount by Best Buy.
• Collaborated with the programming team to create a website for the team using GitHub as a host.
• Appeared and was featured giving interviews on several local news channels.
• Wrote press releases and updated the website to reflect our accomplishments and needs.

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Management Information Systems & International Business, 3.85/4.00

Activities and Societies: Japanese Conversation Club, CORE Lego Robotics Club, UGA Athletic Association TutorGraduated Magna cum Laude.

Japanese Language And Literature

Activities and Societies: Center for Japanese Language Student, 空手道誠心会のメンバーI attended classes taught completely in Japanese that related.

4.0

Activities and Societies: Bibb County FRC Robotics Team #4941 RoboBibb, FBLA, DECA, The Husky Howler newspaper, Literary Club, National.