-Compelling Research Advocate: Successfully articulate and demonstrate the value of research in strategy development to drive business growth to agency account teams and clients. Exceeded yearly 2018 selling quota of $200K by February 1.-Relationship Architect: Develop deep relationships with numerous agency client teams, evolving into multi-year client agency allocation post-project. Actively partner with clients, creatives and strategists in the development of agency work.-Designer of Research: Create custom research methodologies for over twenty large-scale quantitative research projects with sample sizes from 200 to 50,000 and questionnaire lengths from 5 to 60 minutes. Lead questionnaire design and oversee fieldwork.-Expert Quantitative Data Analyst: Lead team of 2-4 analysts on each project. Execute multi-variate statistical analysis using SAS on over 100 projects, specifically factor analysis, cluster analysis, correlational and descriptive analyses, MaxDiff and regression. Strong ability to lead clients and agency teams to uncover hidden, sometimes counter-intuitive meanings in data and illuminate consumer or shopper motivations. -Quantitative Storyteller: Embed data visualization within detailed compelling presentations that are accessible to clients and agency teams that inspire action and compel creativity. -Seasoned Public Speaker: Honed front-of-room presence during ten-plus years of experience presenting research results and strategy to clients and new business prospects, typically c-suite audiences. -Contributor to Thought Leadership: Lead researcher on Leo Burnett's largest thought leadership investment in 2015-2016, Cultural Fuel. By positioning trends as mindset shifts, this tool illuminates how and why ordinary Americans might engage differently than futurists project.

-Strategic Plan Researcher : Write reports using secondary data to inform public strategies to non-profits in education, health care and law. Use secondary research to develop strategic plans for hospital clients to gain approval of their proposed projects and expansions through Illinois' certificate of need (CON) program and the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board.-Reputation Management: Develop talking points for clients' editorial board meetings with the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times . Advise clients on relationship building with public officials and community leaders. Refine and create messages and materials including persuasive fact sheets for legislators.

-Quantitative and Qualitative Researcher: Created and implemented research instruments for both qualitative and quantitative research, including telephone surveys, focus groups, individual interviews, and media dial testing, including extensive research for the Kerry/Edwards 2004 Presidential Campaign including national daily tracking polls, daily tracking polls in some of the key battleground states, weekly statewide polls for message development and numerous ad tests and focus groups. -Analyzer of Data: Prepared weekly analytical memos on the polling in specific battleground states for the Kerry/Edwards campaign state directors and top-level campaign consultants. Analyzed data from media and advertising tests and prepared in-depth PowerPoint presentations on moment-by-moment results for the Kerry/Edwards campaign manager and other top level campaign staff and consultants.