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Chicago, Il, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Provide high-value secondary research and data to support advanced manufacturing, energy, and private equity case teams and practice areas. Apply industry expertise and advanced analytics tools to answer complex business research questions quickly without sacrificing depth and nuance.

Boston, Ma, Us

Core Responsibilities-Facilitate research planning, information management, and database training to support secondary research needs of North American consulting and administrative staff-Build advanced manufacturing services (AMS) industry expertise through engagement with AMS practice, assessment of industry sources, and distribution of news and information -Contribute to internal asset management tools to strengthen information services capabilities -Train new Information Services staff on key tools and resources

Oakland, California, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Core Responsibilities -Manage research, data capture, reporting, and strategic application of client and industry knowledge for the workplace design practice at Perkins+Will-Partner with Global Corporate Interiors Practice Leader to inform strategy and both internal and external practice messagingKey Accomplishments-Engineered project benchmarking database and launched firmwide through change management, data cleaning, statistical analysis, and reporting -Increased client engagement by developing strategic content, including: practice’s first-ever thought leadership video, client-facing collateral, presentations for industry conferences, survey-based research, and blog posts-Led taxonomy development for content management system, narrowing redundant list of 450 design features to 200 and resulting in improved search optimization-Published peer-reviewed literature review; First employee in practice to be published in Perkins+Will Research Journal

Chicago, Il, Us

Core Responsibility-Partner with Managing Director and Human Resources Director to manage and strengthen Diversity and Inclusion initiatives for Chicago office of Perkins+Will Key Accomplishments:-Analyzed data to develop metrics about recruitment, retention, outreach, learning and development, and employee engagement within our Chicago office-Refocused learning and development efforts, increasing programs by 500%-Established consistent communication about goals and efforts with entire office through all-staff meetings and frequent email communication

Champaign, Il, Us

Core Responsibility-Identify and interpret user needs through reference, readers' advisory, computer, database, and referral services to library patrons Key Accomplishments:-Published 10 social sciences and library usage guides, streamlining research process for students and faculty-Cataloged over 80 historic test batteries in Microsoft Access database using taxonomy standards

Champaign, Il, Us

In this position, I fact checked over 500 footnotes, quotations, and historical details in Professor of History's manuscript to prepare it for publication. This project required intensive research of historical newspaper databases and knowledge of bibliographic formatting. Link to published book: https://www.amazon.com/Not-Straight-White-Washington-Franklin/dp/1469626845/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484334423&sr=1-1&keywords=not+straight+not+white

Champaign, Il, Us

Champaign, Il, Us

Core Responsibility-Coordinate data management to inform entrepreneurial support at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Key Accomplishments:-Implemented content management strategy to capture venture capital awarded to 220+ startup companies over a 10-year period using public information sources, saving firm $5K+ in VC database subscription fees-Oversaw Research Park tenant surveys to benchmark company growth, developing data-driven insights to secure approximately $50K in grant funding

Master Of Library Science (Mls), Library And Information Science

Bachelor Of Arts In Liberal Arts And Sciences, English Major, Business Minor

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