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Pollen is a professional membership for independent consultants and fractional leaders. We offer expertise, content, and community to support independents who are committed to professionalizing and scaling their businesses.

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Reforge offers career accelerator programs for experienced growth and product professionals. Past projects include: - Writing and launching new programs based on qualitative research with successful tech industry veterans. Topics include freemium business models, leading product teams, and technical strategy.- Leading cross-functional program development teams and managing our content roadmap. - Experimenting with new content formats to help our members learn better on the job.

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Forrester's market impact group helps B2B marketers and technology providers better understand and engage their customers with objective, data-driven thought leadership content. I led custom primary research engagements to create independent, data-fueled stories and assets that help clients capture mindshare across channels and turn prospects into customers.Project topics included analytics and data management, digital marketing, application development and delivery, and emerging technologies.

San Francisco Bay Area

I worked in an internal advisory role for IBM's Digital Business Group, which brings new digital offerings to market, improves customers’ digital experience, and delivers a unique experience for developers.Project Role: Market ResearcherResults: Our team established a quantitative methodology to assess IBM's digital offering competitiveness. I became an expert on IBM and competitor data analytics products, presenting findings on product discovery, trial experience, and purchase, as well as recommendations to improve these areas relative to the market.Project Role: Strategy and Operations ConsultantResults: I worked with the external partnerships leadership team to implement a new management system. After interviewing team members who worked across each stage of the partnership lifecycle, I developed a set of reusable assets for new partnerships and documented the overall process flow, providing a common understanding of owners and hand-offs at each step to increase accountability.Project Role: Financial AnalystResults: As part of the annual budgeting process, I developed a $20M business case for IBM's digital developer channel. I estimated salaries and expenses, forecasted business impact, and conducted sensitivity analysis on different funding scenarios before reviewing the final case with executive stakeholders.Project Role: Design Thinking FacilitatorResults: I facilitated a two-day, 30+ person design thinking workshop for IBM’s EdTech team to help participants better understand their target users and create a relevant offering roadmap. The team felt the workshop provided clearer focus, and in the following six months, they launched several new courses and increased learners’ platform usage by over 140%.

Greater New York City Area

As an internal consultant, I delivered funded strategy projects critical to the company’s future success. Project Role: Product OwnerClient: Global Business ServicesResults: I managed a 7 person team focused on developing an internal learning platform. We took the product from idea to pilot launch in under six weeks, gathering user feedback via focus groups and surveys to identify new features and improvements. The pilot garnered interest from hundreds of users, which we grew to thousands in the following months.Project Role: Communications LeadClient: Sales & DistributionResults: Faced with our client's evolving product portfolio, our team developed a training program so our workforce could speak fluently with clients about new products and services. As communications lead for the program, I created a comprehensive marketing plan and wrote content for a direct email campaign, internal news coverage, and leadership enablement tools. Communications were distributed to over 400,000 participants.Project Role: Product Owner Client: Chief Analytics Office Results: While designing and launching a global finance and sales metrics dashboard that enabled C-Suite level strategic discussions, I worked as a product owner, translating business needs into technical requirements and facilitating Agile grooming and planning sessions with the development team. I also designed and implemented a streamlined user-accepted testing process.Project Role: Data LeadClient: Sales & DistributionResults: On a sales strategy project, our team improved IBM’s salesforce structure to increase revenue in existing and new accounts. I analyzed existing accounts, reviewing characteristics of 12,000 clients and developing an optimized account coverage model that aligned sales representatives to clients based on historical spending, industry, geography, and seller input. The year following the new coverage model roll-out, the region experienced $90M in sales growth.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Strategy And Analytics

Merit Scholar and Forte Foundation Fellow.

Bachelor'S Degree, Politics & East Asian Studies

Merit Scholar | Research on China's currency devaluation sponsored by NYU's Brademas Center | Semester abroad in Shanghai, researching.