Savana Cooney Email & Phone Number

Warren, Michigan

Lansing, Michigan Area

Greater Denver Area

Lead project manager responsible for staff and clients, while managing multiple qualitative and quantitative projects in various stages of recruiting, fielding or analysis. Project Management: Managed 160 projects with companies ranging from start up to fortune 500 companies in various industries including beverages, sports, entertainment, financial, food and business generating $500,000 in profit; produced an average profit margin of 47%. Recruiting Profitability: Supervised recruiters and implemented strategic solutions to meet respondent quotas under budget on 94% of projects and with an average profit margin of 52% ($366,000 total profit).Training and Development: Trained approximately 10 new hires on recruiting, project management and facility processes to increase quality of respondents and overall satisfaction of client.Screener Development: Created, edited and/or programmed roughly 250 screeners using SurveyGizmo, SurveyMonkey, and ARCS for clear and concise questionnaires to enable respondent completion online or over the phone with a recruiter.Analysis: Volunteered to assist in note taking during focus groups, quantitative coding, preliminary analysis and editing of final presentation to demonstrate full value as a comprehensive service delivery. Client Management: Established strong relationships with clients and was requested to manage additional projects, becoming account manager of five of the company's largest clients. Client Relationship: Repaired and regained trust with former clients becoming preferred vendor in Denver.Upward Mobility: First employee to be promoted to project management within 5 months after building exceptional relationships with clients during fielding as a client assistant and display of analytical and problem solving skills as a recruiter.

Greater Denver Area

Interviewed and scheduled participants into focus groups, taste test, in-depth interviews, shop-a-longs and in-homes then provided assistance to both the client and participant during onsite fielding of a project. Interviewing: Asked open-ended and close-ended questions to potential participants using a screener to see if they qualified for an upcoming study and scheduled approximately 10-15 participants per day into the appropriate sample groups.Data Entry: Input collected data into Microsoft Excel worksheet to keep track of quotas, ensuring the sample group represented the correct demographics as requested by the client. Customer Service: Attended to both participants and clients during the study making sure both were satisfied with the fielding experience.

Assisted with the day to day operations and seasonal events for The Clayworks- a non-profit that provides adults with physical or intellectual disabilities to create, sell and express themselves with art through various media. Training and Development: Educated 2 sales associates on the daily processes including pricing items, cash register software, cash register reconciliations and inputting special orders. Guide: Conducted tours of the store for large groups to increase sales, donations and awareness of the non-profit's vision and story.Event Planning/Preparation: Coordinated with the manager for larger seasonal events by setting up the space, documenting any art pieces going to offsite events, and managing crowd flow during events.Management: Became the temporary manager while manager was on maternity leave after only a few months of employment.

Mcpherson College

Tutored undergraduate students in introductory financial management concepts (stocks and bonds, ratio analysis, and capital budgeting).One-on-one Tutoring: Provided assistance with course content, test-taking strategies and study skills increasing students' grades by as much as two letters.Group Study Sessions: Planned and led group sessions to recap the material covered prior to unit test, mid-term or final exam.

Wichita, Kansas And Chicago, Illinois

Planned and began the first phase of a two-year market research plan by analyzing automotive restoration, preservation and auto technology schools in order to forecast industry trends and answer research problems. Qualitative Interviews/Analysis: Composed and conducted approximately 10 phone interviews with alumni and students to better understand automotive restoration undergraduate/technical degrees offered.Research Continuation: Crafted 5 workbooks using Excel to enable seamless transition for phase two of the market research plan.Secondary Research: Gathered relevant qualitative and quantitative data using secondary sources to understand the industry and develop accurate research questions about educational programs.

Mcpherson College

Responsible for fundraising, event planning and speaking on behalf of the student body at events geared towards alumni.Student Representative: Represented the study body by presenting at approximately 10 local alumni events and developing relationships in order to increase donations and alumni involvement on campus. Communication: Called alumni and local businesses to pledge donations for the annual scholarship fund. Consistently increased alumni pledges from previous years. Event Planning/Preparation: Coordinated approximately 10 annual alumni events as a member of the alumni team ranging from 10-500 attendees.

Master Of Science - Ms, Marketing Research

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Administration, Marketing And Management