Benjamin Hearn Email & Phone Number

Washington DC-Baltimore Area (Remote)

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• The North Carolina State University Jenkins MBA program uses an experiential learning model that combines a focused classroom curriculum with real world client facing projects and practicums.
• The NCSU Jenkins MBA Supply Chain Management program is ranked the 15th best North American graduate supply chain program by Gartner (2020)
• The NCSU Jenkins MBA Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization program is ranked the 17th best North American graduate entrepreneurship program by the Princeton Review (2021)While completing my Jenkins MBA, I.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

• The North Carolina Small Business Technology Development Center (SBTDC) provides support to both small and mid-sized North Carolina based businesses and entrepreneurs with a focus on creating and maintaining North.
• Creating comprehensive, multi-year business plans to streamline operations, grow sales, and enter into new/untapped markets
• Performing due diligence and directly negotiating compensation structures with tier one suppliers and marketing/business partners
• Co-authoring multiple grant submissions (commercialization plans for both Department of Defense and National Institute of Health phase one and two SBIR/STTR grants)
• Developing and regularly reporting market intelligence, competitive analyses, and detailed customer/stakeholder analyses (including technology use cases scenarios)
• Acting as a NCSU liaison to coordinate my clients with all available NCSU resources and future project sponsorships/partnerships to drive their growth beyond the conclusion of my internship

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

The Global Trade Professionals Alliance (GTPA) is an Australia based professional organization that performs global trade research, provides professional training, and authors international trade standards. Through a combination of international trade organization membership and corporate partnerships, GTPA seeks to promote increased global supply chain.

Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, United States

Bob Barker Company is a North Carolina based supplier of detention products (uniforms, bedding, toiletries, etc.). During this project, I led a diverse cross-disciplinary team of four graduate students as we optimized the inventory controls and materials flow of bedding products using the principles of Lean Six Sigma (Define, Measure, Analyze, Implement.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina

• Trained and led a cohesive eight member squad through complex, time sensitive and high stress maneuver problem sets. Resulted in a unit ranking of the second highest performing squad of 27 squads ranked within the.
• Spearheaded the creation of a company intelligence support team to produce and disseminate intelligence products to both superiors and subordinates. Products were used extensively in support of global response force.
• Forecasted the weekly equipment needs, disposition and maintenance of an eight member maneuver element.
• Managed the daily workflow of 35 personnel as the head director of non-deployed unit operations.
• Planned and synchronized key tasks between multiple organizational clients to accomplish both tactical and strategic level organizational goals.
• Coordinated the allocation of limited manpower resources across multiple functional groups while balancing the needs of all team members involved.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Acted as an agent of change by continuously identifying process, system and control deficiencies critical to the Equity team’s performance. Collaborated with team members to formulate and deliver timely solutions.
• Coordinated and coached a group of five interns to create and capture key risk metrics in process areas not previously explored, reported results to Middle Office Managing Directors. Results formed the basis of a Six.
• Proposed and initiated biweekly meetings between four interrelated operations teams to collaborate on shared challenges and process improvements. Teams also used collective momentum to speed IT development of system.
• Performed daily trade reconciliations including ad hoc inquiries, coordinated resolve of multi-million dollar trade breaks through direct contact with internal and external clients under tight deadlines.
• Trained colleagues on core processes and products, created in depth training materials with an emphasis on preserving process control. Disseminated all exceptional events and control breakdowns to both managers and.
• Rotated through Equity, Interest Rate, Emerging Market and Credit Default product support roles bimonthly.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Operated as sole Raleigh Commodities Analyst as part of an operations team based in New York. Networked and built strong working relationships with all off-site colleagues and clients.
• Reconciled daily trading activities and identified complex product, booking and IT errors within trade capturing systems. Products included cleared and bilateral Gas, Power, Metals, Oil, Agriculture and Emissions.
• Communicated all booking errors and resulting P+L impact to trading desks in New York, London and Singapore. Implemented solutions within tight time constraints to minimize P+L impact and kept all affected parties.
• Produced monthly and quarterly portfolio valuation statements for high-value, sensitive external clients.
• Created and streamlined trade reconciliation processes with an emphasis on increased speed and accuracy. The streamlined reconciliations cut ad-hoc inquiry response times in half.
• Networked with contacts across multiple departments with focus on collaborating to improve delivery and execution of solutions.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Technology Entrepreneurship And Commercialization Certificate; Supply Chain Management Certificate, 4.0

Activities and Societies: North Carolina State University Master of Business Administration Student Association North Carolina State.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business And Personal/Financial Services Marketing Operations, 3.51

Magna Cum Laude