Owen Watson Email & Phone Number

Remote

• Handle external communications from initial relationship building toproject deliverables, processing sensitive financial information for multi-million dollar corporate and individual CPA clients
• Liaise between internal teams, ensuring consistent external brand andcommunication language/style through self-authored style guide
• Leader of technology team, ensuring company-wide integration ofhardware and software systems including cutting-edge security processes

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Wrote interview guide and conducted interviews for NOAA’s Sectoral Applications Research Program to design climate vulnerability assessment tools for local governments in the Great Lakes region
• Drafted and published bimonthly press releases highlighting GLISA’s national climate reports and work in local Great Lakes climate adaptation
• Designed, wrote, and edited final collateral and copy for the 2019 GLISA Annual Report and 2018 Annual Climate Summary for the Great Lakes Basin
• Partnered with GLISA’s Program Manager to plan and execute the 2018 Great Lakes Adaptation Forum, designing all creative collateral and scheduling resources

San Francisco, CA

• Led QA team: managed final QA for website/mobile localization projects for multinational clients, acting as main point of contact for technology-related client queries/issues
• Informed and revised internal company policy regarding technology usage, holding office-wide trainings on technology updates and building on the Solutions Lead role
• Trained 30+ San Francisco office project managers in JIRA/internal technology usage and best practices, tailoring individual usage to custom tools and workflows
• Personally implemented internal technology suite for entire 100+ person San Francisco office: overall project technology usage went from 6% to 98% in the three months following promotion to Solutions Lead role
• Responsible for administration of the Translations.com technology suite, including JIRA and proprietary, internal/client-facing localization software (OneLink, Project Director, and Term Manager)
• Acted as the main point of contact for portfolio of over 20 client relationships (ranging from single $500 projects to multinational organizations with over $1 million in annual revenue)

Oakland, California, United States

• Wrote 145 total ~1,000 word articles on deadline for the second-most visited baseball website on the internet; featured in 24 separate weekly “Best of FanGraphs” compilations for outstanding analysis
• Contributed a featured chapter in the 2016 Hardball Times Annual, a book comprising the best analytical baseball writing of the year
• Featured in numerous local and national television/radio interviews (MLB Network, WLW Cincinnati)
• Serialized work: The Cy Young That Never Was, a series of five long-form articles on the intersection of sports and social justice issues in urban America

Charlottesville, Virginia

• Tabulated, synthesized, and analyzed data from Crozet housing needs survey for the West Village development project; met with officials from Crozet on Master Plan to include more affordable housing units
• Performed research on green building and sustainable development practices for Fields at Venable project

Master Of Science - Ms, Environmental Justice

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Creative Writing/Journalism

Activities and Societies: The Climax Student Newspaper, Obama for America - Hampshire College Chapter, Jazz Band, Soccer Team (Captain)

Education record