Lauren Ramirez Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, United States

Greater San Diego Area

Providing independent consulting services for small businesses looking for business development opportunities and growth.

Greater San Diego Area

• Senior Consultant (2013 ), Associate (2014 - present)
• Designed, conducted and presented complex analyses to Senior VPs enabling them to make decisions on recruiting, training and attrition for future staffing using predictive analytics. Leveraged existing data from across.
• Recognized as a leading analyst able to provide significant value to new business teams and developed training materials for my peers with working examples on how to become a better analyst. Conducted various trainings.
• Well-versed in risk assessment and mitigation. Adept in understanding multiple stakeholders' concerns and able to communicate a risk's profile and associated mitigation plans.
• Supported hundreds of firm proposals across markets by providing pricing and financial analysis expertise. Versed in US Government solicitations, FAR clauses, compliance and pricing strategies and used this knowledge.
• Conducted and presented competitive analysis and potential execution analysis of various pricing strategies for business opportunities in the Department of Defense (DoD) markets.

Greater San Diego Area

• Consultant (2009), Senior Consultant (2010 - 2012)
• Delivered cost estimating and analysis support to $800 million Navy IT client (SPAWAR, PMWs 160 and 130, IT Networks, IA and Cyber Security), supplying both ad hoc analysis and long-term expertise on a variety of.
• Developed complex, dynamic cost models to provide quantitative and qualitative decision support to program management
• Consulted as the lead analyst to client team, identifying opportunities for new business, developing junior staff and trusted as subject matter expert by clients across issues
• Worked with cross-functional team of engineers, logisticians, and program management as cost lead to gather multifaceted data, appropriately correlate and document requirements to enable leadership to visually and.
• Conducted Monte Carlo risk analysis, interpreted and presented results that led to program management adaptations to achieve cost savings

Led the San Diego chapter of ICEAA (formerly SCEA) in local activities to connect, engage and educate members on cost estimating skills and topics.

Encinitas, CA

• Assisted the TaylorMade/adidas Golf account team to provide optimal client service, creative strategy, marketing campaign execution, and new website development
• Responsible for agency coordination with the client on a daily basis to ensure projects are on time, within budget and strategically in-line
• Conducted competitive market research, normalized cost / price / performance data and performed regression and sensitivity analysis on the leading golf manufacturers
• Organized and researched competitive positioning for strategic planning meetings for 2009 product launches
• Created conference reports, brainstormed new ideas for growing the client’s business and issue “points of view” for agency review and client discussion
• Served as the lead account person responsible for several projects for adidas Golf, both internal and consumer-facing

• Collected and analyzed primary research with a faculty research group with a grant from the National Association of Securities Dealers
• Conducted survey design, experimentation and risk analysis on investors’ risk acceptance
• Used advanced analysis and regression techniques to evaluate independent variables such as age, income, bias and expected payoff to estimate risk tolerance

• Managed the local research and analytics efforts of national producer and distributor of California-grown produce (peaches, plums and nectarines)
• Analyzed the factors influencing sales by quantity and revenue such as price, advertisements, weather, demographics and seasonality of fruit with econometrics-based modeling (STATA and SPSS)
• Wrote white paper for the president to impact areas within the company’s control to maximize ROI with investment in promotions and the supply chain

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Economics

Activities and Societies: Kappa Delta, Greek Impact, FCA, Club Volleyball

Education record

Activities and Societies: Varsity Volleyball Captain and MVP, FOCUS