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Chicago, IL, US

London, England, GB

Shepherding great ideas into fully functioning solutions

Mountain View, CA, US

* Scoped, planned, deployed, and scaled the Public Sector Connect community (pubsecconnect.com), a closed space for government and education innovators to learn how to leverage Cloud technology to address pressing challenges. * Held over 80 live, weekly ‘coffee hour'-style events, welcoming 40+ members to hear from successful Cloud innovators and discuss.

Mountain View, CA, US

* Advised state, local and federal government customers on ways to approach, deploy and manage digital transformation efforts. * Planned and led visioning sessions and Transformation Labs (i.e. design sprints) for strategic customers to articulate transformation goals, approaches and/or prototype core Cloud solutions* Launched the Government Transformation.

Mountain View, CA, US

* Guided Fortune 500 customers and large Google partners on how to plan, deploy and integrate Google Cloud into organizations, facilitating critical workshops, events, and system ‘go-lives’* Designed, developed, and delivered (alongside a cross functional team) the Google ‘Transformation Labs’, a sprint-style workshop designed to accelerate business.

Chicago, IL, US

• Partnered with business leaders to grow their change capability and drive organizational change through strategies, plans and actions that enable people to achieve business goals
• New Center Launch: Helped launch the industry’s first Consumer Education Unit insupport of the Affordable Care Act; assessed current and future people needs, developedchange strategy, managed change plan, and provided.
• Compensation Restructure: Enhanced organization’s knowledge and perception of newcompensation structure by developing and implementing change strategy and plan; oversaw extensive socialization, communication and.
• Virtual Work Transition: Enabled migration of approximately 200 employees to HCSC’s first virtual call center; outlined virtual performance measures, culture building efforts, and leadership tools to mitigate attrition.

Dublin 2, IE

• Worked across industries to support organizational change and transformation efforts
• IT Organizational Transformation: Worked with IT leaders to shape cost-effective organizational structure; developed 12 job descriptions and outlined key performance metrics to drive efficiencies; created workforce.
• Post-Merger System Integration: Helped transition approximately 45 U.S. offices to new financial IT system by developing and providing training, communications and engagement efforts; executed change champion strategy.
• SAP Implementation: Coordinated training, communication and organization readiness efforts across 12 national offices moving to SAP

Dublin 2, IE

• Acquisition Communication Strategy: Created Communications Playbook outlining effective stakeholder communication practices, processes and roles to effectively integrate new and future acquisitions
• Transition to Outsourcing: Maintained morale and mitigated attrition during transition to outsourcing bycreating change plan and strategy, leading internal group of senior change agents, and defining roles and.

New York, New York, US

* Managed development of new Web site: - Created content for 30 new Web pages to target diverse audiences and increase site’s search engine optimization (SEO); integrated site with photos, video and new media - Partnered with external agency to ensure consistent, clean visual identity and branding - Learned and managed site’s content management system to.

New York, New York, US

* For clients like the Ford Foundation, U.N., and large non-profits and NGOs, managed client relationships, trained and provided oversight for entry level staff, developed strategic communications action plans, simultaneously managed diverse client projects and competing deadlines * Worked with team of national researchers to distill technical findings.

New York, New York, US

* Translated complex policy ideas into reader-friendly media materials and white papers; wrote and placed op-eds and letters to the editor for private and public leaders * Assisted with media and communications trainings for clients* Conducted opinion research and analysis, employing quantitative survey tools* Utilized messaging tools and persuasion skills.

* Interviewed numerous internal stakeholders and conducted extensive literature review to compose comprehensive recommendation of outcome and performance measures for public center as part of small consulting team

* Provided writing assistance for 12 staff memos, two Senate floor speeches, dozens of constituent correspondence letters and the Congressional Record year-end summary.* Edited committee scripts and talking points; synthesized committee hearings for staff.

Ba, History

Master, Public Administration