Nicolas Gedigk Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Translate market, competitive and industry data into compelling storytelling presentations with meaningful conclusions and recommendations
• Aggregating and analyzing marketing data from multiple sources and distilling findings into useful insights
• Digest, compare, segment and cross-tabulate complicated data and synthesize it in a way that extracts insights to drive action towards client metrics and goals
• Audience analysis and insight: Demographic, geographic, psychographic, and behavioral research to develop detailed audience personas for clients. Includes cross-tabulating data from multiple sources to build a.
• Competitive audits: Conduct analyses of multiple competitors to identify positioning, gaps, opportunities, and rankings
• Local market insights: develop comprehensive, hyper-local opportunity scorecards for clients based on competitive, demographic and consumer spending data analysis/insights

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Conduct online and in-person qualitative research related to Consumer Packaged Goods to gain insight into consumers’ shopping journeys, perception of brand equities and packaging designs, and general shopping behavior
• Completed course in Fundamentals of Moderating Focus Groups from RIVA Market Research & Training Institute
• Moderate in-depth-interviews, analyze qualitative data, and create reports for clients
• Act as liaison between research team, clients, and project management and logistics teams
• Facilitate onboarding and training of interns on the qualitative research team

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Seoul, South Korea

• Prepared and executed the 6-week-long orientation program for the incoming cohort of 70 Fulbright Korea scholars
• Developed and led more than 10 workshops on cultural preparedness and practical/theoretical pedagogy training
• Managed daily extra-curricular activities, guest speaker presentations, and formal ceremonies
• Coordinated Korean Language classes with the Korea University Language Center
• Facilitated COVID-19 related quarantine and testing protocols
• Served as a direct liaison between the incoming cohort, the Korean American Educational Commission, and the Korea University administration

Geumwang, South Korea

• One of 62 cultural ambassadors selected by the U.S. Department of State to teach English at a secondary school in South Korea
• Taught 18 independently led full-immersion ESL classes per week to all three grades of over 300 students
• Created year-long curriculum with the goal of practicing speaking skills and facilitating cultural exchange between South Korea and the U.S.
• Continuously explored and evaluated pedagogical methods to ensure cultural sensitivity and relevance in my lessons
• Led a weekly 100 minute-long after-school English conversation class for 10 students aimed at improving speaking skills

South Korea

• Working closely with authors on their submitted work to help them best meet their goals and vision for their writing

Poughkeepsie, NY

• Compiled reading list for new ethnographic methods course
• Created a network of potential field-sites in the Hudson Valley for students to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in, ranging from houses of worships, inter-faith organizations, and schools

Schlitz, Germany

• Conducted independent ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation, field notes, interviews in community and home for adults with disabilities (Summer 2016)
• Provided live-in care for two individuals in all aspects of daily life
• Presented original research at the 2017 Northeastern Anthropological Association Conference
• Published in Journal of Undergraduate Ethnography, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2018)

Poughkeepsie New York

• Funded by the Catherine E. Montgomery Field Work Fund
• Conducted ethnographic research at youth empowerment organization addressing question of sustainability
• Created ethnographic report documenting the practices, philosophies, and principles that make up the innerworkings and spirit of the organization for the purposes of sustainability
• Developed Summer STEM Program for local elementary students
• Trained high school mentors working at the organization to carry out the Summer STEM Program

Poughkeepsie, NY

• Led three half-hour sessions per week for introductory German students with the goal of practicing speaking skills
• Created grammar drills for sessions to improve students’ fluency in constructing sentences with newly learned grammatical structures
• Communicated student progress with German professors