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Alexandria, Virginia, US

• Team Management: Led 5-person team of Product Operations Managers. Represented team at executive-level meetings to advocate for prioritization of member-facing projects in Premium Services.
• Budget Analysis: Updated processes to reduce contractor spend about 25% below budget while maintaining content flow.
• Process Improvement: Managed transition to cloud-based tools including Confluence, Jira, and Braze to increase efficiency across the Product team and to improve communication with Motley Fool members.

Alexandria, Virginia, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Product Management, Marriott NGOP: Managed cross-functional team of stakeholders in training, communications, change management, and operations. Worked closely with product owners to adapt product requirements to changing customer needs and budget constraints. Collaborated with other product managers to analyze product epics and develop an eight month.

Mclean, VA, US

• Cybersecurity Analysis: Facilitated working sessions and meetings with an automotive information sharing alliance to gather content and write two best practices guides in cybersecurity risk management and training.
• Project Management: Led research and development of Visio process maps for FEMA internal mission services. Prioritized and delegated tasks based on changing schedule and budget restrictions.
• Business Process Improvement: Created business process improvement strategy for how USCG validates technology requests. Worked with Commanders and Captains to implement changes across the organization.
• Training Programs: Delivered a requirements management job aide; implemented a repeatable training program for requirements management.
• Data Analysis: Analyzed usage trends for high-visibility government agency website; provided recommendations for improving usability and user experience.

Brea, California, US

• Business Case Development: Composed business case for new DNA sequencing service that would increase revenue by $10M over five years.
• Market Analysis: Analyzed sales and market trends to create recommendations for targeted marketing strategies.

Washington, DC, US

• Proposal Development: Managed team that composed a winning Drupal website development proposal for USDA resulting in a $5M, 5-year agreement.
• Project Management: Managed subcontractors and client relationships to grow $500k Agile-based website development project into over $2M in website development, app development, and website translation projects.
• Client Relationship Management: Configured cloud-based CRM database, consolidated and streamlined over 1000 client contact entries, and redesigned reselling process, increasing reselling profit over 15%.
• Strategic Advising: Completed product and sales training for high-security mobile technology with Sydney-based company; advised company on best practices for United States government procurement.
• Training and Development: Oversaw and mentored four business analyst interns; completed training exercises in government contract proposal writing, client presentations, and market analysis in the mobile technology.

-Assist in research as part of a Brookings Institution seminar on Homeland Security-Compile memos and reports to summarize research findings

-Extensively researched projects as part of a Community Resilience/Community Shielding (CR/CS) project contracted by the Department of Defense and an Advice in Crisis project contracted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)-Compiled literature reviews for Principle Investigators and for deliverables to the Department of Defense and.

-Managed various special projects, events, tasks for the Executive Director and Steering Committee-Supported cross functional team of finance, HR, operations, and strategy managers-Contributed to Community Shielding campaign encouraging citizens to prepare for unexpected crises -Played key role in planning, organizing, and execution of conferences held.

US

-Calibrated necessary instruments on a daily or weekly basis -Headed project for the Environmental Protection Agency testing potable water throughout the Town of Hempstead; reported results in terms of the New York State Health Department requirements-Performed spectrometry, titration, and chromatography experiments to test chlorophyll in bay water.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business, Finance

Bs, Environmental Science

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