Patrick Parkes, Mba Email & Phone Number

Grand Rapids Metropolitan Area

➢ Managed fulfillment of deliverables across multi-year city accessibility improvement consulting projects, amounting to 375,000+ in grant and fee-for-service revenue.➢ Curated all speakers, transition scripts, audio-visual, and other programmatic aspects for an annual architectural workshop serving 150+ project stakeholders.➢ Delivered disability awareness trainings to 10+ corporate and/or community audiences per year.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Deployed the extreme confidentiality and attention to detail necessary to perform margin-loan and other recurring-transaction quality-control checks, foreign wire transfers, and daily treasury borrowing projections

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

 Established quick rapport and trust with students and staff; nimble adaptation of course content and teaching strategies have earned repeat, daily call-backs across 6 school districts.  Recognized for ability to inspire students by being selected as keynote speaker to address 750+ students for school-wide disability-awareness-themed event, “Day of Caring.”  Integrated strategic decision-making and communication skills to facilitate daily progress of academically and socially diverse 20-30 student teams across traditional K-12 and special education spectra.

Arlington, Virginia

 Crafted a series of training articles by demystifying complex datasets and resources; reached early-career policy analysts within 65 think tanks across each of the 50 states.

Overland Park, Kansas

 Secured transparency for taxpayers via negotiation and fulfilled hundreds of open records requests annually, spanning 286 school districts, 82 state agencies, and 105 counties.  Designed compelling advocacy narratives for blog posts, news editorials, interviews, infographics, podcasts, and policy guides to expose wasteful government spending and overreach; influenced audiences of 3,000 Facebook users, 1,500 Twitter followers, and 165 legislators.

Champaign, Illinois

In this role, I assumed sole responsibility for the researching, writing, and editing of a business leadership case study profiling the entrepreneurial spirit of disability rights and services pioneer Timothy J. Nugent.

Champaign, Illinois

In this role, I was responsible for editing the organization's biannual newsletter, conducting market research on prospective donors, and editing correspondence to these prospects. I also maintained the organization's donor contact and gift history registries, prepared monthly expense reports, scanned expense receipts, and updated checking account registries.

Urbana, Illinois

In this role, I completed over 110 hours throughout the semester assisting the office attorneys with case discovery research, court processes research, outline and note preparation, as well as client phone calls and other clerical tasks. I was 1 of 5 interns selected out of 77 applicants to participate in this inaugural internship program.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

-Organized the store’s digital archive of purchase and return invoices.-Updated existing product and new product registries for use by checkout lanes.-Responded to general product and store layout inquiries from customers.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Entrepreneurship And Strategic Innovation, Digital Marketing, 3.98

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honor Society

Masters Of Arts, Political Science/Civic Leadership, 3.83

Activities and Societies: The Civic Leadership Program

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science, 3.85

Activities and Societies: The Civic Leadership Program