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Raleigh, NC, US

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

Rochester, New York, United States

Rochester, New York, United States

Performed in-depth strategic analysis including market size analysis for future growth and development, competitive price analysis for market entry, and business model refinement for reduced risk and increased efficiency.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Produced data-driven solutions for projects and corporate initiatives, fostering process improvements company-wide.
• Led a team of four Data Analysts for three years to foster best practices through process improvement across the company, winning Team of the Quarter twice. The latest win was Quarter 1 2020.
• Produced data-driven solutions such as establishing a QA database integrated across multiple departments, which saved the company $20,000 annually in the time it previously took to gather these results.
• Pioneered Lean Six Sigma initiative within Palmetto GBA with a project chosen by the COO, resulted in improving turnover rate of business proposals by 25%.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Provided data analysis and administrative support to the Appeals Department in daily reporting and maintenance of the reporting databases.
• Improved reporting capabilities and enhanced data utilization by completing the automation of overpayment due letters resulting in $12K/annum by restructuring usage of data fields and eliminating the need for manual.
• Collaborated with four departments to establish a new workload system with an integrated reporting database resulting in over $767,000 cost savings and won process improvement of the year for 2015.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Hired explicitly to help the Appeals Department improve reporting capabilities and provide workflow analysis so that the department could identify the necessary process improvements to meet their performance standards.
• Identified performance degradation issues within the Appeals Department's workflow and implemented real-time reporting mechanisms to achieve 100% performance metrics for the first time in department history.
• Automated the processing of second-level appeals resulting in over $300,000 cost savings and won process improvement of the year 2013.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Converted 1K+ customer informational letter templates to an interactive, embedded format resulting in the automation of ~1M letters generated from the company every year.
• Achieved a 65% decrease in completion time as team lead of 10 associates by implementing improvements to conversion process, revising the workflow and completing the project four weeks earlier than its due date.

Columbia, South Carolina

Managed corporate sponsorship displays and promotional events for college football game days.

Columbia, South Carolina

Implemented marketing strategies focused on new business and establishing market presence. This franchise had been established five months before I was employed, so it was new to the market and needed to grow.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Consulting

Activities and Societies: Simon Vision Consulting, Academic Coach, Consulting Club

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration; Marketing And Management

Activities and Societies: Sigma Alpha Lambda, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, CFF, CMI