David Baur Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• During a six month contract as a consultant, I pitched this role to help the organization navigate through a challenging period of strategic planning. I contributed thought leadership to help ULI MN build off its long.
• Provided thought leadership, design guidance and writing skills to enable the planning and delivery of a new two-year strategic plan.
• Wrote and designed a comprehensive report for the Minnesota Department of Transportation, synthesizing insights from real estate leaders on innovative ways to reconstruct I-94 in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
• Presented to public officials and community organizations about the potential impacts to cities posed by emerging tech including the internet of things, robotics, 3D printing, drones, and autonomous vehicles.
• Identified ~$10K in annual savings (~2% of organizational budget) through streamlined and modernized communications processes. Implemented a consistent design language and brand identity across print and digital.
• Designed a shared file structure and led migration of content from individual hard drives to cloud storage to ensure data integrity and business continuity.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• I left my position at Target to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a published author, a goal I achieved through the publication of two outdoor recreation guidebooks and a short story in an anthology.
• Planned and delivered on deadline 30 chapters for a co-written hiking guide titled “Best Hikes Near Minneapolis-St. Paul” published by Falcon Guides. Chapters from that book were used as contributions in “Best Outdoor.
• Provided communications consulting and design services including development of messaging for target audiences, and design of marketing and promotional materials. Wrote a commissioned comic book script.
• Designed and managed a website, created a brand identity for marketing and social media, and maintained a blog for personal writing. Wrote and edited 115 blog entries, producing more than 140K words of essays and.
• Completed a draft of ~100K word urban fantasy novel set primarily in Minneapolis–St. Paul. Approximately 50K words into a second novel draft, a science fiction fantasy set in Chicago.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• As a Process Analyst and Senior Process Analyst, I took lead responsibility for using data to set resource planning strategy for Infrastructure, Support and Security teams. This included organizational change.
• Led design, implementation, and process adoption of interactive resource reporting tools and KPIs to retire static PDF reports, automating report generation and saving an estimated $100K in labor annually.
• Managed changes to IT capital project planning and improved resource forecast accuracy by using historical data to create resource demand projections, identifying resource constraints 4-5 months earlier than previous.
• Delivered monthly resource forecasting and project delivery analysis to senior leaders by identifying constraints, providing recommendations on resource allocation, and consulting on prioritization.
• Created self-service interactive training modules for 800 team members using Adobe Captivate. Delivered classroom training on resource and project planning processes to 200 team and project managers.
• Collaborated with with client teams and project managers to reduce misallocated contractors by 75% and unfilled demand for project roles by 65% through improved process execution.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• I created the Project Manager role to serve as an operational manager across the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment ensuring coordinated and streamlined delivery of our work and managing the implementation.
• Managed a cross-functional data warehouse project with a $400K annual budget to deliver a reporting solution for data from disparate systems to analyze student outcomes, faculty effectiveness, and product profitability.
• Built and implemented a centralized portal for research findings and reporting using SharePoint to enable self-service ‘source-of-truth’ retrieval, reducing problems with version control.
• Created an automated notification and tracking system for clients to request ad-hoc reporting and analysis, reducing email management and providing clear and measurable service level agreements.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• As a Research Analyst and Senior Research Analyst, I designed and executed both ad-hoc research projects and annual recurring projects including satisfaction surveys and regulatory reporting. This included frequently.
• Delivered presentations of research findings to President and Chief Academic Officer, including a regression model using market research from satisfaction surveys to predict student satisfaction and Net Promoter Scores.
• Constructed a predictive retention model of students entering and exiting the research process using moving averages of past data to extrapolate future projections based on enrollment trends.
• Designed and implemented templates and process documents to identify synergies in reporting for major annual survey instruments and other projects, reducing workload and increasing efficiency.
• Collected and reported data to external organizations (Princeton Review, US News and World Report, IPEDS, MN OHE) to satisfy accreditation, federal and state reporting requirements.

Greater Chicago Area

As a research assistant, I assisted professors by performing basic statistical analyses, reviewing drafts of academic papers for content and clarity, and performing occasional data entry. As a teaching assistant, I was responsible for grading tests, quizzes and homework assignments for two introductory statistics courses. I also held office hours and met.

Greater Chicago Area

Instructed conversational Spanish skills to adult learners who wanted to learn basic Spanish for business and career purposes or to travel. Delivered curriculum using PowerPoint presentations to classes of 6-8 students. Facilitated conversations to practice new material and ensure proper pronunciation and word usage.

B.A., Spanish, Economics, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Sigma Delta Pi Spanish HonoraryMy senior research project was an approximately seventy page paper, written in.

M.A., Political Science, 4.0

Semester Abroad

I spent one semester living in Heredia, Costa Rica and studying at the Universidad Nacional. This was an incredible experience that.