Kat Carter Email & Phone Number

Buffalo, NY, US

Buffalo, New York, United States

WEDi' Small Business Incubation program is better known by it's public face...the West Side Bazaar, and it's big sister the Downtown Bazaar. I am excited to be helping traditionally disadvantaged founders in Buffalo get a start on their restaurant or retail journeys via the Incubator.

Buffalo, New York, United States

WEDi is a local CDFI serving the SME's of Buffalo. So now in addition to supporting WNY's amazing entrepreneurs with the resources and learning tools they need to keep going and growing, I get to help Buffalo peops find seed capital as well!- Work one on one with loan clients to facilitate seemless customer experience- Business Development via Strategic.

Buffalo-Niagara Falls Area

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." This Maya Anjelou quote inspires me to keep learning and growing every day. As a consultant, coach and mentor I find questioning and learning to be the key to sustained business and personal growth.- Work with Partner organizations on Community Development projects and events

Buffalo-Niagara Falls Area

I have the privilege of leading the volunteer team that brought Buffalo Startup Week back as in person event in 2022, and again for 2023. In 2022 we gathered over 1,200 Entrepreneurs, Investors, Entrepreneur Adjacent and the Community at Large together for 4 days of programming for the most diverse business event that Buffalo has ever seen.

Buffalo, New York, United States

Better Together is a grassroots, antiracist group of techies who want to support each other as we each engage in "doing the work" needed to become more antiracist. We all pursue individual paths, and acknowledge the benefit of having a supportive, safe group to discuss the many nuanced and cultural competencies we need to be successful in that work. Our.

Greater Buffalo Area

Consulting and Sounding Board practice focused on Strategic Planning and Leadership for early and mid stage Startups. In addition to coaching many leaders and key employees, consulting focuses on design and development of strategic data driven operational processes and systems to support Disciplined Entrepreneurship for IDE's and SME's. Past projects.

Buffalo, New York, United States

~Implemented strategic planning, conducted two strategic planning offsites to completed Annual and Quarterly plans, executed on One Page Strategic Plans.~Identified and hired CTO.~Structured business process improvement with data model to enable data driven growth and reporting (Corporate and Departmental). Developed and implemented KPI's for company and.

Buffalo, New York, United States

- Project Management - Updated and streamlined Business Operations- Project Management - Building Business Operations and Customer Software Applications- Project Management - Researched and recommended company medical benefits plan and provider

Buffalo, New York, United States

* Stood up organization wide business data from every organizational system into single Snowflake database for use by all leaders, employees and investors.* Implemented Business Intelligence and Departmental Dashboards to track corporate and departmental OKR's* Built reporting and performed data analysis to enable data drive decision making across all.

Buffalo, New York

* Designed, built and implemented Revenue Operations for Business Development, Customer Implementation and Customer Success departments to support capital rounds A, B and C and achieve Squire's $250 million valuation.* Designed, built and implemented employee hiring and onboarding practices which reduced employee ramp time from 7 months to under 2 month.

Denver, CO

• A third party online benefits administration SaaS software platform company. Client Operations Lead
• Led execution of annual projects for three high profile clients generating $4.6M in annual revenue.
• Managed daily communications with clients to maximize the investment in benefits program, minimized exposure to risk and engaged employees through platform
• Served as a day-to-day liaison between clients and call center team, making sure employees received accurate information and assistance.
• Managed and conducted new client administrator training.
• Drove continual improvement of the delivery of services from all teams; ensuring a cohesive, high quality service experience.

Bend, OR

• A cloud based search-marketing SaaS platform bootstrap start-up company developing and maintaining lead generating websites for real estate companies. G5 grew from $500,000 in revenue with 14 employees in 2008 to.
• Led year-long project corporate business process improvement including development and implementation of team communication, cross functional processes and best practices across the eight G5 Operations teams to use new.
• Eliminated redundant data storage, improved support SLA’s, reduced website implementation time from 20+ to 14 weeks.
• Redeveloped Contracts Department system and processes to improve accuracy and reduce contract production times from 10 days to 2 days Executive Assistant (2008 – 2011) / Office Manager (2011 – 2013)
• Developed and executed all aspects of office management including: employee policies, onboarding and facilities management. Consistently stayed under budget despite explosive growth of workforce.
• Managed tenant improvement project and moved entire company into new location with loss of only 2 hours of company time.

Aspen CO And Bend OR

Projects: Organization of private clients Offices and Homes.

Bend OR

• An independent events rental company based in Portland OR with clients including Nike, Microsoft and other large Pacific Northwest institutions that produce major events. Additional branches in Bend, OR and Las Vegas.
• Devised and executed business process reorganization for Bend, OR branch. Including billing to reduce A/R by $100,000 in first 3 months.
• Project Management - research and procure new warehouse and sales office location, moved business and maximized utilization of existing software systems
• Decreased delivery costs, improved order fulfillment accuracy and increased sales by 25% in first six months.
• Oversaw day-to-day operations including hiring, scheduling, inventory organization, delivery schedules, filing, billing, collections, payroll, HR and Labor Law related issues, banking, and communication with head office.