Kenneth O'Grady

Business Development Lead at CityStudio Global
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, CA

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Zarrar Saeed

Over the last 4+ years, I have had the opportunity to know Ken as a colleague in a separate team and subsequently as a member of my own team. During this time, if I had to describe Ken in one word, it would be reliable. However, leaving it at that would be an injustice as Ken brings so much more to the table. He is incredibly meticulous and detail-oriented with a flair for identifying operational constraints, proposing solutions and leading the development/implementation of those solutions. He is able to effectively deal with several, concurrent highly sensitive tasks whilst maintaining a positive attitude and upholding an industry leading standard of service delivery. Never shy of taking the initiative, Ken always goes the extra mile in the pursuit of delivering results and is a merit to any team that is lucky enough to have him.

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Experience

    • Canada
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Business Development Lead
      • Nov 2022 - Present
    • Canada
    • Education Administration Programs
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Coordinator - Test Centre Operations
      • Mar 2015 - Aug 2022

      • Managed portfolio of 50 test centre partners in Western and Northern Canada, owning their performance and revenue metrics and building relationships through continuous check-in conversations and site visits • Managed personnel at our Vancouver corporate site (20 direct reports) including recruiting, onboarding, scheduling, and professional development • Created testing schedules at centres, analyzing the fill rate of open tests, and presenting data to add availability • Developed internal reports based on users’ needs, performing QA and creating SOP documentation before deployment, and taking ownership of maintenance and continuous improvement. • Increased surveyed centre satisfaction by 12% within 6 months, using SWOT analysis to prioritize client portal improvements within IT resource budget, creating project tasks for design, engineering, and data teams • Reduced late starts at centres by 58% by analyzing operational efficiency and liaising with customer experience stakeholders to propose and implement a new test day policy, updating web and marketing content accordingly • Limited expenses to 21% of revenue for mobile labs deployed as temporary test centres, by analyzing costs and defining target registration volumes • Reduced task time by 50% and human errors by 75% for test schedule creation and editing by designing and implementing batch processes. • Determined market share and identified new business opportunities worth $4m by analysing IRCC (Immigration) report. • Researched 4 competitor's tests by comparing customer experience, test day procedures, test UI, and test content and reporting to IT, Product and Customer Service teams to kick-start improvement projects • Identified and onboarded 14 new North American centre locations by monitoring test availability changes by city per quarter and designing analysis to visualize test taker geographical data Show less

    • Indonesia
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Communications Officer
      • Oct 2012 - Nov 2014

      • Owner of automated transactional emails for 25 European online stores, acting as point of contact for external comms systems and workflows. • Collaborated with counterparts in American and Asian regions to globally align automated workflows and ad-hoc comms procedures. • Reduced customer contact volume for online store returns by 30% and increased satisfaction score by 16% by leading project to update automated emails, gathering requirements and performing User Acceptance Testing for 150+ scenarios. • Composed and executed comms strategy for ad-hoc events (product launches, seasonal discounts, etc.), creating content and coordinating translations in 14 languages with external vendors. • Reduced external vendor expenses by 25% by publishing internal translation catalogue of recurring content. • Performed gap analysis of usage and engagement across Customer Service email suite for shipment exception scenarios to update and standardise content before deployment of new CRM tool. Show less

    • Consumer Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Team Lead Account Services
      • Oct 2009 - Oct 2011
    • Ireland
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Quality Assurance Quality Control
      • Jun 2007 - Sep 2009
    • Bangladesh
    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Customer Service Team Lead
      • Jun 2006 - Jun 2007

Education

  • University College Cork
    BSc Chemistry, Chemistry
    2002 - 2006

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