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Boston, MA, US

-- A clear, engaging, evidence-based guide to monetizing data, for everyone from employee to board member.-- Forbes Top 10 Tech Books of 2023-- 2024 Outreach Practice Publication Award from the Association for Information Systems-- Axiom Business Book Awards Silver Medal in Business Intelligence and Innovation

Cambridge, MA

I oversaw research and operations for an academic research center within the MIT Sloan School of Management. I sought to optimize the impact of MIT CISR research findings with academics, executives, and the general public. I edited research, fund-raised, developed new products, cultivated partners, planned events, managed our talent, and guided our digital.

Cambridge, MA

I led a team of analysts who provided research and advisory services to Enterprise Architects on emerging technology, application consolidation, information strategy & architecture, data management and content management. I coordinated planned content across the firm and edited my analysts' research reports. I learned how to coach and provide direction to.

I covered the search industry for Forrester, an independent market research firm. I sharpened my analytical and communication skills -- interviewing, writing, consulting, and presenting. After 4+ years managing tech projects at Abbott, I could relate to the challenge our clients faced in developing roadmaps and business cases. This job provided a window.

I worked closely with tech vendors, developers, and enterprise architects to deliver enterprise search capability. With guidance from seasoned mentors, I learned how to cultivate strategic partnerships with business and technical colleagues in different divisions and business units. I led the redesign of the search user interface within corporate brand.

• During and after graduate school I worked as an independent consultant for Fortune 500 clients. Sample projects:
• Created a database of 3,000 + records searchable by 38 attributes for RandMcNally
• Built a thesaurus to integrate with website search engine for the U.S. Army
• Performed an information audit to ascertain how information flows in the organization and to identify barriers to efficient use of information for Unilever.
• Developed a consistent and scaleable organization scheme for a web-based collection of intellectual property for State Farm.

After several years at WGBH in Boston, I moved to Chicago and continued my career in fundraising. I analyzed the results of a 3rd party electronic screening of the 200,000 member database. I generated new fundraising initiatives with timelines, milestones and deliverables. I loved the data mining and information classification aspects of this role and was.

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