Taylor Gray Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Stamford, Ct

Project manager for multiple initiatives involving citizens’ services, communications, economic development, and technology. · Leadership: Served as Special Assistant to Mayor David Martin and as a member of the Mayor’s cabinet to help create and execute the administration’s priorities and vision for the city until change of administration in late 2021.· Project Management: Led the successful development and implementation of new City of Stamford website and content management system. Worked alongside outside consultants to develop project plans that streamlined content for citizens. Website was graded by Yankee Institute as the top Connecticut municipal website in 2021. · Database: Built and maintain website database of nearly 250 city services that allows residents to search through city services directly from the homepage of the website and to access any part of the website in three clicks or less.· Communication: Draft official press releases on behalf of the City and the Mayor’s Office. Assist in running official city social media accounts with over 20,000 combined followers.· Web Management: Manage a 600-page municipal website that requires coordination and relationship management with every city agency and department.· Growth: Responsible for growing the city e-mail subscription lists and quadrupled the total subscribers for our weekly newsletter, The Works.· Crisis Management: Assist response teams and task forces by developing communication plans to help the city respond to emergency events, including the COVID-19 pandemic and emergency school construction.· Economic Development: Sought leads and prepared for the Economic Development Department’s pitches seeking to recruit businesses to Stamford, and provided research and technical assistance.

Stamford, Ct

Coordinated the successful reelection campaign of Stamford Democratic Mayor David Martin.· Field Organizing: Created field and phone banking plans covering all districts in Stamford, CT using the VAN database.· Finance: Conducted donor outreach and managed contribution input and tracking using NGP. Planned and staffed fundraising events from 25-100 people.· Management: Supervised a team of 50 volunteers and created a high school internship program that recruited 15 local high school students with no previous campaign experience.· Research: Prepared policy, candidate opposition, and donor research on behalf of the mayoral candidate and the town committee. Contributed to published op-eds for the Stamford Advocate on issues including zoning and gun laws.· Performance: Achieved a victory margin of 24 points, the largest by a challenged Stamford mayor in over 25 years.· Transition: Oversaw transition period and inaugural committee planning and assisting with additional fundraising efforts.

New Taipei City, Taiwan

Taught English as a second language to over 80 students ages 6 to 70.· Lesson Development: Created detailed lesson plans including individualized goals for each student.· Marketing: Managed promotional events and presentations for prospective students achieving 100% success rate for potential prospects resulting in a 10% enrollment increase.· Program Development: Identified and developed new market with 5-6 year old non-English speaking students who needed preparation for the Shane Program. The new curriculum resulted in increased retention and a rise in enrollment by 20%.· Performance Improvement: Improved student performance standards by 14% in one year from 80% to 94%.

Ridgefield, Ct

Reported to art collector purchasing and shipping art internationally. • Administration: Managed office needs of the owner . Communicated with dealers and institutions to coordinate payment and transport of artwork. Reviewed contracts of sale, bills of lading, and loan agreements. • Database Management: Maintained and organized DB of 3,500+ works. Developed new hard file system.• Research: Confirmed work provenance, exhibition history, literature references, current location and payments.

• Research: Trained students in research methods and provided reference services to undergraduate students.

Greater New York City Area

● Administration: Provided audit support to accounting by compiling and reviewing financial statements.● Itinerary Management: Researched and booked travel for employees under strict deadlines.● Production: Assisted in design of walk through media tours and assisted with installations.