• Independent consulting service supporting clients with effective internal corporate strategy communications and external marketing, fund raising and commercial development communications• Startup company support: marketing - branding, messaging and digital asset development; IT support infrastructure

• Reframed company’s strategic positioning & catalyzed the transformation of the company from pre-revenue late stage startup to revenue generating service provider in pursuit of commercialization• Led or supported all third party service deals, from lead generation to contractual closing, consequentially generating ~$1.5 million/year in critical revenue for the company• Guided pricing and drafted service contracts• Managed all aspects of company’s digital presence including designing, writing & building new company website and all other sales and marketing material including collateral and presentations• Worked side-by-side with CCO developing strategy and executing on company’s portfolio of commercial projects, all components from technical conceptualization to financing strategies

• Evolved corporate messaging to focus and strengthen company brand• Created collateral – presentations, business plan, info sheets, corporate videos – for the executive management team that supported the successful $25mm Series C fundraise• Designed new graphical identity for company following major transition period• Market research to develop competitive landscape and inform strategic positioning• Supported roles across company including finance, business development, engineering, procurement and IT

A joint project between the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship and Crispin Porter and Bogusky. Conducted primary market research to provide insight into public perceptions of electric vehicles.

Hand crafted seasonal home goods· Developed business identity and created website to extend reach and promote sales· Manage online sales, advertising and customer service; achieved 100% satisfaction rate and return customer base

· Worked with a student/faculty team in a joint venture with Toyota to generate ideas that leverage new technology and fast-changing consumer demographics to give the hybrid/electric vehicles of the future a market edge

· Conducting a market assessment for the potential application and commercialization of a novel technology developed by an engineering lab at the university· Working jointly with a team comprised of another MBA student, an engineering PhD student and faculty member, a local entrepreneur, and an industry expert from DOW chemical

• Evaluated market opportunity for new medical devices guiding portfolio management strategy• Created competitive landscapes to inform product positioning• Developed and presented to senior leadership potential product solutions laying foundation for multi-division initiative• Crafted and tested questions for quantitative conjoint market research study

· Managed the execution of a federally funded research project, The Role of Bimodal Expression in the Acquisition of Concepts· On-going meetings with principal investigator and other project coordinators to discuss data analysis, study design modifications, and future directions for the project· Generate interest among Chicago area schools, coordinate visits to conduct research, and collect, code, and analyze data· Train research assistants on project protocol and coding systems· Facilitated data collection and assisted data coding of a federally funded research project, Development of Communication· Recruited hearing and deaf subjects via community contacts, specialized schools, and hospitals· Coded data collected for a study examining the structure of adult nonverbal communication, provided updates on coding progress and problem-solved around challenges, as well as discuss ways to modify and improve the coding· Created a database to manage contact information and lab history with Chicago area schools used by the lab using File Maker Pro (independently learned)· Webmaster of Goldin-Meadow Lab External website, Adobe GoLive (independently learned)· Built a publicly accessible digital archive of lab publications to eliminate filling requests manually· Created an on-line calendar to streamline inter-lab communications (i.e. lab meetings, data collection staff scheduling)

· Collected and reduced data for a federally funded, longitudinal, research project examining the correlation of health and social relationships in middle-aged adults· Conducted interviews to collect data about life events, social networks, psychological and physiological health, and physiological tests involving cardiovascular and spirometric measures, and blood tests· Verified data collected via questionnaires, reduced physiological data, and maintained organization of subject data· Managed scheduling of subjects lab visits