Kat Kiyoko Amano is a Head of Strategic Operations at Castro Concepts, LLC. She possess expertise in salesforce.com, scrum, email marketing, social media marketing, agile project management and 18 more skills. She is proficient in English and French. Colleagues describe her as "I had the pleasure of working with Kat at Emma for about 3 years. I was on the interview team that hired her and from moment one was incredibly impressed (borderline obsessed, I was told :) with her ability to communicate and desires in life. Over those 3 years, I had the opportunity to work with her in many different capacities and very often went to her for advice and problem solving solutions. She always delivered. The job she was initially hired for was not super glamorous but took a lot of concentration and patience. She immediately dominated the position, improving the processes and speed at which the job could be done. She quickly moved up in the company by very humbly just being amazing at everything she did. All the teams wanted her time and brain power. On top of doing all of her regular work responsibilities, she was asked (because of her interest and ability to hand extra responsibilities) to head up the Non-profit Volunteer Team at our company. One of my favorite occasions to work with Kat was when she would organize our company to volunteer for the annual city wide Hands On Nashville event. She took care of everything from connection us with the organization, the initial emails explaining the opportunity, making sure everyone remembered they volunteered (me:), where to go, what to do, etc etc. Our company always had a huge turn out and she was able to get people excited about making our community better. Often times, people that want to volunteer can have the best of intentions when initially agreeing to do so, but often drop out last minute. Kat always handled those situations gracefully, figuring out a solution without any sign of frustration! I know I couldn't do that! As a more personal aside, Kat is in the top 3 most caring and thoughtful people I have ever met in my life. That is not a hyperbolic statement, believe me. Working with her means not only having someone you can trust to get the job done above and beyond the scope and quality desired (and on time), but she genuinely cares about her team and takes into consideration everyone's personality and how best to make things work for them knowing that it serves the greater good. I've honestly never worked with anyone quite like Kat. She inspired me to do better, have more courage and care for others better. Also! Even though I haven't worked with Kat for a couple of years now, she ALWAYS reaches out to include me when volunteer events arise at Emma. She remembers that I care about that stuff, and makes sure I have the opportunity to help them make a difference. Incredible. " and "Kat has the rare gift of being both strategic and tactical. I've seen her tackle design and implementation of arching Salesforce projects as our Ops Analyst, and I've seen her work in real time with her Scrum Teams to remove impediments and help them succeed as their Scrum Master. Kat simply gets things done, and is always up to the challenge. Now armed with Agile and Kanban, she's soon to take over the world."