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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Lead annual mission critical projects for four annual scholarship application cycles, coordinating cross-departmental teams, ensuring adherence to project timelines, and managing technical process for scholarship.
• Spearhead the development and maintenance of 12 active Salesforce flows, enhancing operational workflows and efficiency, including the creation of 10 flows and management of 50+ active workflow rules and process.
• Manage 20+ active APEX triggers in collaboration with external vendors, leading updates and transition to flow-based processes, reducing custom code dependency.
• Build technical aspects of communication through Pardot, developing email templates and engagement programs, ensuring precise audience targeting for 100 to 2,000+ prospects.
• Oversee seamless Salesforce record creation and update for over 3,000 application and survey respondents, enhancing data integrity and user engagement through Formassembly connectors and simplifying build by moving.
• Customize Salesforce fields, page layouts, and developed dynamic lightning record pages, significantly reducing time to gather pertinent information from records.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Greater Atlanta Area

• Plan, coordinate, and support scheduling and logistics for department events and student engagement activities.
• Manage marketing, recruitment, and outreach efforts for growth of Leading Edge (One-on-One Leadership Coaching), Minor in Leadership Studies, and Teams for Tech programs.
• Created a strategic social media and communications marketing plan that increased student, family, staff, and faculty audience reach from 600 followers to over 1,600 followers in less than six months.
• Act as a liaison with internal and external groups to create and maintain partnerships and development opportunities in support of department objectives.
• Organize, market, and execute Georgia Tech’s first campus-wide Minor Fair & Showcase, which was attended by over 400 students, and brought all 63 minors available at Georgia Tech together at one time, in one place to.
• Process travel requests, payroll, time documents, personnel action forms, and generate check requests.

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, GA

• Advised recent alumni in job search, networking, and career development strategies through one-on-one in person and phone appointments
• Critiqued recent alumni resumes, cover letters, and graduate school personal statements
• Researched current trends in career development and pitch topics for monthly webinars; eight suggested topics comprised final spring webinar calendar and attracted an average of 31 alumni audience participants
• Facilitated webinars presented by guest speakers and served as presenter for two webinars focused on career transition and resume creation
• Compiled upcoming career programs and resources, alumni events, and expiring job postings to produce biweekly Jobs for Dawgs newsletter sent to over 4,500 alumni; distribute 8+ newsletters per semester
• Connected with alumni and students through Brazen virtual networking events, an online text-based platform

Athens, Georgia Area

• Helped plan and finalize logistics for 3rd annual leadership retreat, including creating promotional materials, allocating budget funds, establishing day-of participant and committee schedule
• Facilitated focus groups with past APIDA Leadership Retreat participants to gain insight and better understand how to support student needs
• Implemented emerging themes from focus groups and assessment feedback to inform leadership retreat learning objectives and curriculum
• Recruited, evaluated and selected four student presentation proposals that align with program mission
• Constructed retreat curriculum aimed at promoting understanding in students regarding inclusive and culturally relevant styles of leadership
• Created and analyzed Qualtrics survey results to inform improvements for future retreats

Atlanta, GA

• Conducted peer program research of 12 other university Parent & Family Programs websites
• Enhanced Georgia Tech Parent & Family Programs website by updating “Important Links” page and including additional resource webpages for new and returning families
• Reviewed assessment data to create infographic pamphlet for professional staff: “How Can Parent & Family Programs Work with Your Office?”
• Aided with planning the annual Family Weekend by coordinating with colleges and schools hosting academic receptions; updating Parent and Family Programs website with schedule, pricing, and registration instructions.
• Scheduled 23 unique parent panelists participating across nine FASETs and communicate office expectations and needs to panelists
• Collaborated with Director to coordinate search for newly created Parent & Family Programs Coordinator position by organizing 28 applicant resumes, creating and updating scoring sheets, and scheduling and assisting.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Supported 5 professional staff members with multi-day events for 150+ Scholars, alumni, and faculty, including an annual off-site retreat for current Scholars and Scholars Finalists’ Week, an extensive on-site.
• Collaborated with campus partners to schedule three campus tours and four facility tours for 70+ Finalists during Scholars Finalists’ Week
• Reviewed resumes of 110+ Scholars and created a log outlining 94 research experiences to assist staff selecting a panel for Scholars Finalists’ Week
• Coordinated off-site dinner event for 100+ Finalists and faculty members at five restaurants in Emory Point; collected receipts and procured invoices to ensure successfully and timely payment
• Advise Scholars seeking summer internship opportunities by creating and recording webinars, gathering and distributing information about open positions, and coaching Scholars one-on-one

Atlanta, GA

• Supported college-intending high school graduates via text messaging platform and other virtual communications methods with completing necessary college enrollment tasks while mentoring students with emotional support.
• Communicated with students regarding next steps in their scholarship update and renewal processes
• Assisted with planning and facilitating a summer event for counseling staff focused on college access topics

Atlanta, GA

• Successfully assisted 206 seniors at KIPP Atlanta Collegiate in submitting over 2,500 scholarship applications; seniors were awarded nearly $4 million in private scholarships over two years
• Conducted 4,503 substantial one-on-one interactions with students to provide near-peer advising on topics such as scholarships, FAFSA, and important college enrollment tasks
• Developed and facilitated FAFSA Parent Night events, assisting 60+ families to complete the FAFSA within three months of opening in October
• Achieved a 94% FAFSA completion rate for the senior class, 34% higher than the national average
• Coached seniors daily in writing essays to tell well-rounded and personal stories
• Supported annual KIPP Through College events and programs, including KIPP-Lovett-Westminster College Fairs and out-of-state college trips

Atlanta, GA

• One of sixteen advisers accepted from 500+ college advisers to join the Data and Policy Fellows
• Researched if and how CAC could increase college-going culture by enhancing support for underclassmen
• Contributed in biweekly meetings held to design and execute research study
• Analyzed survey data submitted by 501 CAC Advisers, examining adviser interactions with high school underclassmen across the country
• Presented findings to all advisers and staff at a national summit held in D.C.

Atlanta, GA

• Supported college-intending high school graduates via text messaging platform and other virtual communications methods
• Achieved the highest engagement rate of all fellows at 96.8% total campaign engagement
• Personally assisted recent high school graduates with completing necessary college enrollment tasks while mentoring students with emotional support prior to the start of college

New York, NY

• Managed daily administrative functions for executive staff by maintaining calendars, fielding phone calls, handling communications with producing teams, and more
• Ensured smooth transitions when changes occurred by coordinating between various departments (control room, post, production, and more)
• Assisted in script revisions and then compiled scripts and distributed daily to show host
• Updated show grids, binders of staff pitches, and minute-to-minute ratings every week

New York, NY

• Assisted in the vetting process by making 3rd party calls
• Researched supporting statistics for segment content
• Recorded and reported the air log of when pieces aired
• Logged and transcribed footage from every shoot

NYC

• Created budgets, managed purchase orders, and updated executive producer’s schedules
• Archived video footage

New York, NY

• Supported production and script staff, audience members, and crew while preparing for tapings
• Researched and collected information used for future segments
• Assisted style and other producers on field shoots and projects

Master Of Education - Med, College Student Affairs Administration

Ba, Communication Studies (Conc. Media), 3.95

Activities and Societies: NUTV and Northeastern Figure Skating Team, Minors: Media Production; Psychology