Athena Abate

Director Of Operations at Banneker Partners
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Experience

    • United States
    • Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director Of Operations
      • Aug 2021 - Present

      Banneker Partners is a private investment firm focused on making equity investments in enterprise software businesses. Banneker Partners is a private investment firm focused on making equity investments in enterprise software businesses.

    • Canada
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Board Observer
      • Oct 2022 - Present

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Board Observer
      • Jan 2022 - Present

    • Canada
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Board Observer
      • Jul 2022 - Present

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Board Observer
      • Sep 2021 - Present

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Associate Director of Operations
      • May 2020 - Jul 2021

      Decision Lens is a privately owned SaaS company taking the guesswork out of enterprise planning, financial, IT and performance-related decisions with easy-to-use strategic portfolio management software. Decision Lens solutions make planning collaborative, transparent and reflective of the needs of key stakeholders and the overall organization. Decision Lens is a privately owned SaaS company taking the guesswork out of enterprise planning, financial, IT and performance-related decisions with easy-to-use strategic portfolio management software. Decision Lens solutions make planning collaborative, transparent and reflective of the needs of key stakeholders and the overall organization.

    • United States
    • Education Administration Programs
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Director, Enterprise Technology Operations & Implementation
      • Feb 2019 - Mar 2020

      • Directed a to capture and transcribe business requirements as it pertained to technology systems and operations from all levels of leadership across the enterprise. Requirements were prioritized and integrated into project creation to improve enterprise technology operations.• Responsible for collaborating with senior leadership to create product roadmap and guide enterprise strategic initiatives. Leveraged that knowledge to then prioritize tech product and projects as it pertains to scalability and efficiency of 2U.• Integrated new technology, both from external vendors and internally developed, into current system infrastructures, communicate changes and effects to stakeholders, with a focus on minimal impact to account owners to ensure students and universities would be unaffected negatively.• Project manager of complex products from conception through launch to improve internal operations by integrating new technological features internally, ensuring an external output to outdated university technology systems, garnering support internally from all levels and externally. Show less

    • Manager & Senior Manager, Customer Insights and Strategy
      • Oct 2017 - Apr 2019

      • Guided a team, to create KPIs, key insights, create reporting tools, and forecast sales to provide data-based strategic recommendations aligned with corporate strategic initiatives. • Partnered with cross-functional senior leadership to leverage data-based metrics to improve technical and operational processes, program retention initiatives, and efficient reporting for self-sustaining information resources.

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Consultant, Technology Operations
      • Sep 2016 - Sep 2017

      • Established and coordinated an agile quality assurance process of software development to improve and modernize 30+ technical communication components for the U.S. Army’s Distributed Communication Ground System to allow Soldiers across the world to communicate on secure lines with minimal lag time.• Identified, delivered, and executed a robust process for engineers, scientists, and technologists to follow for the Recovered Chemical Materiel Directorate within the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity, to classify and analyze the recovered weapon, and destroy weapon in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Show less

    • Senior Consultant, Technical Business Development & Strategy
      • Sep 2014 - Aug 2016

      • Spearheaded a technical strategic plan and business development effort for the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to identify areas of technical growth and improvement using the balanced scorecard strategy technique. Developed a technical strategy for future Army research to include culture change, internal and external communications, resourcing and funding, and business development. • Exercised various strategy principals to bridge previously stove-piped directorates within the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center by leveraging their vision and mission to deepen technical abilities and resource allocation; collaboration with other organizations, universities, and industry; training and skillset development; and niche areas of technical improvement to devise the highest quality chemical and biological defense equipment to protect the Warfighter.• Developed and led a concentrated 5-week strategy for the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center to advance their cybersecurity technical mission for stakeholder identification, resource requirements, and workforce training needs. Show less

    • United States
    • Defense and Space Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Systems Engineer
      • Feb 2013 - Sep 2014

      • Created new processes to increase efficiency and minimize schedule and budget errors within the U.S. government customer’s organization including, developing a more user-friendly SharePoint; creating and managing the mission’s master schedule via Microsoft Project; and defining and prioritizing requirements needed to complete the overall mission.• Facilitated and led a monthly meeting involving leaders from various mission stakeholder government agencies to provide program updates and ensure training and mission needs are met to keep the long-term mission on schedule.• Developed, organized, and documented requirements, test cases, and defects in application testing tool in order to generate a test activity dashboard. This provided program management with dynamic mission data from daily testing results. Final test findings of this newly re-architectured multi-source application from independent verification and validation methods was presented to executive management, monthly. Show less

    • Business Development Analyst
      • Feb 2012 - Feb 2013

      • Devised an automated corporate dashboard and tracking system to provide proposal capture managers, project managers, and executive’s budget and financial data while performing mitigating any budgetary concerns as necessary.• Strategized the 5-10 year long-range plan of opportunities and pursuits with the business development team to foster and grow the Intelligent Systems Group (ISG) business unit of Vencore. In addition to planning the long-term strategy, presentation materials were created to represent corporate financial standings for varying monthly and quarterly business reviews for leadership discussion. These presentations have now become standard slides across all lines of business for their concise and accurate reporting of key performance indicators.• Researched, analyzed, compiled, and presented business case analysis for a corporate strategic initiative of a potential corporate acquisition of with Qinetiq North America. As of April 2014, this acquisition became official leading to a brand transition from The SI Organization, Inc. to Vencore Inc.• Led proposal cost justifications efforts for materials, personnel, and equipment on 6 large-scale multi-million dollar proposal opportunities; all but 1 of those efforts were awarded to Vencore (then, The SI). • Connected the company with its employees by designing and developing presentations, handouts, and tour materials for an internal branding campaign. Show less

    • United States
    • Defense & Space
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Aerospace Engineer
      • May 2009 - Aug 2010

      • Evaluated the European Space Agency’s CLUSTER spacecraft boom frequencies to understand the maximum strength it can withhold for a reference for MMS spacecraft • Analyzed all potential situations, including numerous worst-case-scenarios, in MMS separation after deployment to determine limits for collision • Simulated the separation of MMS spacecraft after launch for orbit insertion in MATLAB and C++ to display points of collision and force if applicable in any given separation • Presented analysis that proved no collision in targeted separation procedure upon separation of MMS spacecraft at MMS Critical Design Review Show less

Education

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General
    2016 - 2018
  • Penn State University
    Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering
    2007 - 2011
  • The George Washington University
    Professional Certificate, Balanced Scorecard Certification
    2015 - 2015

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