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North Haven, Connecticut, United States

- Lead outside-in perspective for GM's and OU president of the largest Medtronic Operating Unit, Surgical Innovations.- Lead quarterly investor relations content and critical external views to relevant ExCom members (IR, Strategy & MS leaders)- Lead and deliver strategic market research to drive market differentiation for commercial, product and service investments- Experienced workshop facilitator across commercial and cultural initiatives (20+)- Founded Medtronic's Connecticut campus Men Advocating Change initiatives leading organic D&I education impacting more than 700 employees

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

• Strategy Leader: execute cross-functional war games from 12 to 60 people to address key commercial questions• Articulate Speaker: Own and deliver quarterly intel reporting to leadership teams at BU and group level• Agile Executor: Process innovator and thought leader on competitive activity and integration of these insights into our own PD processes• Culture Leader: Formed a men's group supporting women's issues for the Connecticut campus. Early focus on unconscious bias trainings led to group-wide emphasis.• Team Player: Empathetic and collaborative group member able to rapidly re-prioritize and support or lead the most critical initiatives while maintaining communication and accountability for all efforts.

Greater New York City Area

New Haven, Ct

University Of Pittsburgh

• As part of a Consulting Field Project team, I delivered a best practices analysis for a UPMC clinical trial accelerator unit. We identified critical needs that would allow the unit to scale up in size without threatening their trial completion speed.• Business student intern with the Pitt chapter of the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation for translational research with the following accomplishments: + Conducted a stakeholder analysis through direct voice of customer interviews to deliver an analysis of the target customer characteristics and needs. + As part of a cross functional team, I collaborated on a business model canvas that accounts for the regulatory stringency and intellectual property considerations unique to medical innovations.

New Haven, Ct

Projects and Responsibilities: Researched, developed and drafted a market research analysis with a $30m 5yr NPV, 140% ROIC and an average BEP of 4.3yrs.• Managed a voice of customer trial with over 20 sales reps and 30 surgeons to deliver a complete application for full-launch to directors in R&D, operations, marketing, regulatory affairs, quality control and clinical affairs.• Led design and content creation for Endo-Clip III and V-Loc with Endo-Stitch which included the following collaterals: a technical brochure, in-service animations, sales force training modules, promotional procedure videos and surgeon testimonial videos.

Fort Smith, Ar

I designed and implemented the first social media campaign for Coleman Pharmacy, an independent pharmacy in Fort Smith, AR., within an extremely limited budget. Project accomplishments included: • Facebook page and ad campaign achieved social reach percentage of 35%, more than 215 'likes', over 250 monthly active users, and over one million impressions. • Google AdWords spots achieve average position placement of 1.5 while keeping cost per click less than $6.• Successes on Twitter include networking our community pharmacy with others and exchanging ideas improving our own marketing campaigns.

Chicago, Il

Serviced surgeon accounts and patients across the Chicago metropolitan area ensuring timely product delivery, patient compliance, and product effectiveness.• Initiated job repositioning by expanding the treatment and surgery categories of our device catalog’s sales targets and promoted treatment category expansion to leadership resulting in a new company-wide policy.• Developed and maintained company web page to include a complete knowledge base to support the expanded treatment categories for internal sales representatives and improved resource availability for remote use.• Maintained 100% account retention through ownership change in 2007 and built prescription growth within accounts while earning physician referrals. Result was annual prescription growth for north side and north shore accounts from 500 in 2007 to 1100 in 2009.• Implemented search engine optimization strategy that increased Google PageRank® scores and subsequently placed site into the first page of organic searches for our products and other key surgery recovery related search terms.• Was selected to train ten new Illinois hires in the service and sales divisions and participated in the recruitment and screening of prospective employees.• Composed strategic guidance on target customers and procedures within the mechanical DVT prophylaxis market.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing, Fall 2012 Deans List

Activities and Societies: Activities and Societies: Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Intern, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) and Katz.

Master Of Science, Organic Chemistry

Adviser Rainer Glaser Ph.D.December 2006 Published papers discussing crystal structure interactions versus theoretical models.

Bachelor Of Arts, Philosophy, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Varsity Swimming, Student Senate, PWA newspaperFour year Swimming and Diving letterman, 3-time NCAA.

Non-Degree, Biology

In order to fill course gaps in biology, I completed genetics and biochemistry as a part-time student.

Non-Degree, Chemistry

I took courses in chemistry and worked as a graduate teaching assistant before transferring to U. Missouri - Columbia.