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New York, Ny, Us

Greater New York City Area

• Eliminated 90% of manual errors, raising school faculty and leadership confidence by introducing platform to simplify and manage key data inputs for Greenfield reporting as well as assessment schedules across all Achievement First regions.• Conducted numerous presentations of Greenfield technology vision, progress, and key learnings to foundations and major donors in support of multi-million-dollar fundraising goals.• Increased program participation tracking efficiency 25% by developing dashboards and custom reporting modules for youth sport program utilizing Google applications and scripting.• Uncovered more than $40K in cost savings by assessing student information system requirements across all campuses for small Brooklyn-based K-12 charter management organization.• Established inaugural plan for innovative platform for out-of-school program, spearheaded effort to pilot specific technical components while writing minimally viable product specifications.

Greater New York City Area

Brooklyn, Ny

• Ran technology team, including external consultants for innovative school model design to select or build all technology platforms, data systems, and integrations for optimal implementation across multiple geographies.• Led design and development partnership with InnovateEDU for creation of flagship personalized learning platform.• Developed tools, trainings and resources to support successful implementation of technology components.

Greater New York City Area

The Broad Residency in Urban Education places experienced professionals into high-level managerial positions in school districts, charter management organizations (CMOs), and federal/state departments of education. Working from within the public education system, Broad Residents are well positioned to identify, catalyze, and lead the transformation required to ensure that every American child receives a world-class education.

Greater Chicago Area

• Tracked and evaluated enterprise-wide spend on software and hardware testing for $9B financial services division to establish baseline, yielding $30M+ in annual savings.• Oversaw work streams, designing custom Agile-based software development lifecycle, including required roles, processes, delivery models, and global training initiatives.• Analyzed two core capabilities across current industry technology trends and defined IT strategy roadmap with detailed descriptions of projects to address capability gaps for $34B P&C Insurance Firm.• Assessed strategy of 60+ companies to measure how costs aligned with growth objectives for Fit for GrowthSM platform.• Recognized as Client Hero in technology practice for building strong client relationships while maintaining various work streams for key transformation program.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Developed strategic vision for new product pipeline through synthesis of key consumer insights, identification of market opportunities, and competitive threats assessment; recommended initial concepts and timelines for sales growth of 8% • Performed competitive analysis of private brand leveraging Nielsen data, online and in‐store research; constructed model to forecast market share growth in key segments • Provided recommendations based on competitor insights to strengthen position in market and inform pricing for new product for estimated 4% revenue growth • Led cross‐functional team of eight for national product launch; coordinating consumer, financial, operational, R&D inputs to determine total product offering

Promoted to CIG Applications Leader supporting Sales, Business Development, Corporate Communications, and Marketing functions, retained responsibility over NBC Universal (NBCU) Intranet for eight months while seeking replacement, worked with diverse clients and utilized emerging technologies to deliver on business critical initiatives; managed team of over 25 offshore and 3 onshore resources across ten applications• Established Cross Business Lead Sharing as principal sales opportunity tool, expanded reach from 5 countries and 19K active users to a global user base of over 51K by collaborating with sales leaders to define project goals and scope, enhanced technical expertise to design new tool using PHP, AJAX, and Flash with Oracle 10G database• Championed release of Site Builder II, a fully self service content management system, with a more robust interface and functionality to further enable non-technical users to create and deploy content across over 200 externally facing sites• Assumed responsibility for Business Development suite of applications, leveraged past experiences to guide clients and recommend functionality to streamline and digitize Acquisition Retrospective process, managed development of Flex based module to completely eliminate manual process• Spearheaded redesign of insideGE, company intranet portal, on rotational basis, instrumental in determining technical design and key functionality, led team of 35 developers working with a design agency to launch to ~500K users, resulted in reduction of sites (from 77 to 1) and cycle time by drastically reducing IT involvement• Proactively drove technology changes to GE Events, enterprise event management tool, to increase productivity, improved report performance by 75%, created dashboard that eliminated 1 hour of manual effort per viewing, established email configuration module reducing IT involvement allowing for reduction in offshore team

Promoted to Application Leader with sole responsibility for the NBCU Intranet, a fully customizable portal with 10K daily unique visitors, set and executed migration strategy for 4 portals• Enabled $60K in cost avoidance on resources through migrations and shutdown of legacy environment• Partnered with NBCU properties to highlight and market available content and services to employees through creation of new portlets (Weather Plus, CNBC Stocks)• Provided technical guidance and managed junior project leader for creation of the NBCU Business Intelligence portal resulting in savings of ~$900K project costs; ~65K annually• Conceptualized and generated detailed specifications for innovative web-based enterprise Calendar application which allowed global user-base to publicize and stay informed about over 5K events since launch in late 2008

Responsible for expanding insideGE, the company intranet portal, penetration to other GE businesses and overall growth of Shared Vignette Application Portal environment• Defined detailed functional specifications for Flex-based and web services orientated Newsreader application enabling employee collaboration through the ability to share news and events to foster innovation• Identified 36 disparate GE Money intranet sites to consolidate into one insideGE site, eliminating maintenance and hosting costs, changes resulted in over $45K in cost avoidance• Executed GE MoneyBasics Portugal rollout strategy to create brand awareness for prime-time news launch; engaged internal clients, infrastructure, and quality assurance teams resulting in >100K hits in first three months

Graduated from GE’s leadership development program by successfully completing four diverse rotations demonstrating an ability to engage key stakeholders while implementing projects that impact business, “Corporate Recognition Award 2006” recipient for orchestrating changes to ~40 insideGE business sites to realign intranet to company structure after reorganization• Integrated Sarbanes-Oxley Level 1 applications into Sun Identity Manager (IDM) to reach compliance goals• Prevented $270K in cost due to extensive work with clients to define clear strategy, develop and launch new Vignette portal for Equipment Services sales function• Led initiative to digitize Global Infrastructure Services Business Reviews; drove submission of data from various systems and provided streamlined communication tool to promote transparency and growth• Completed cost/benefit analysis, established functional and technical requirements and led offshore development team for implementation of the Equity Traders’ Information Hub using internal Java J2EE framework

Master Of Arts In Educational Studies, Digital Media & Education

M.B.A., General Management & Strategy

Activities and Societies: • Selected: Consortium for Graduate Study in Management Fellow • Awarded: 3rd Place in McKinsey Strategy Scholar.

B.S., Management Information Systems

Activities and Societies: National Society of Black Engineers(NSBE), Undergraduate Student Government (USG), Black Data Processing.

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