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Greater Chicago Area

• Hopper Blue is a small consulting firm that works with Cisco, Lenovo, Meraki, Dell, and Microsoft.
• Cisco – Verizon data alignent and matching 25k accounts. Created an app to visualize the matching
• CDW - Nutanix matched data alignment for sales synergy

Greater Chicago Area

• Hopper Blue is a small consulting firm that works with Cisco, Lenovo, Meraki, Dell, and Microsoft.
• Cisco – Lenovo two-year sales flow for all of Americas for YoY analysis
• Extracted, cleaned, and matched sales data using, fuzzy matching, MS Access queries, and SQL Server
• Created and maintained a database (1.05M unique points) for Tableau analysis and bookings reports
• Designed and maintained dashboards and workbooks for executives to analyze sales flow between segments
• CDW (Canada) - Lenovo - SHI - Meraki Renewal scorecard workbooks for sales managers

Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand

• Indorama is a Global 2000 Petrochemical Company- Data Visualizations for management discussion and analysis (MD&A):
• Analyzed data from 2012-2018 (80,000 observations), formatted and cleaned for Tableau
• Using Tableau created and designed executive dashboards. Elements included: bar, bullet, pareto, pie, and sunburst charts; heat and tree maps; and scatter plots. Analyzed EBITDA, ROCE, and production. Output was used.
• Translated and summarized Institutional investor reports from Thai to English. Assisted in writing MD&A
• Updated production capacity forecasts for quarterly reports

Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand

Awarded a Boren Fellowship for studying advanced Thai language at Chulalongkorn University. This program is through the National Security Education Program (NSEP). While there I was able to increase my American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL) level from 2+ to 3. In addition, I worked as an investment relations intern at Indorama Ventures.

Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand

• Bangkok Christian College – Established in 1852; the oldest private school in Thailand
• Created engaging math curriculum for all of grade 5 and 6
• Presented at parent conference innovative programs being introduced into the classroom
• Evaluated students’ performance and provided feedback to both the parents and students

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

• Exported and sold handmade Cambodian scarves
• Managed all aspects of starting a business in a foreign country: registration of company in Cambodia and the US, planning and executing our business plan, tax registration, export licensing, creation of an e-commerce.
• Developed and created Khmer Youth Education Fund, an NGO registered with the Cambodian government, that used proceeds of scarf revenue to help poor rural students afford school fees and uniforms
• Assisted over 500 students in Kamchay Mear province in Cambodia through a planned partnership with local village leaders
• Managed and trained a team of two Cambodian employees

Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand

• Created engaging math curriculum for all of grade 4, 5, and, 6
• Evaluated students’ performance and provided feedback to both the parents and students

Greater Chicago Area

• Hopper Blue is a small consulting firm that works with Cisco, Lenovo, and Microsoft.
• Analyzed and validated (using logic tests) clients’ data and creating pivot tables
• Extensive use of advanced excel data visualization to help clients analyze sales data

Southeast Asian Studies, Thai Language, Southeast Asian Politics, Gpa (3.856/4.0)

Activities and Societies: David L. Boren Fellow - Advanced Thai Language Studies 2017-2018 FLAS Fellow - Advanced Thai Language Studies.

Thai Language And Literature

Intensive Thai

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics

Cambodian History, Culture And Regional Geopolitics

Economics

Activities and Societies: Studied abroad for the semester

Education record