Experience

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  Results For America

  • Project Manager

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  RESULTS FOR AMERICA, INC

  • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

  • Project Manager

    • May 2020 - Present
    • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

    Continuation of grant work formerly owned by Sunlight Foundation.Helped coordinate transition of team between organizations.Helped gather and refine requirements for new service design in response to COVID-19.Helped develop business case and product vision for new, in-development web resources aimed at helping US cities build remote community engagement capacity in response to social distancing needs. Trained team on and evangelized to project sponsors advantages of Agile/Scrum approach to development.

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  Sunlight Foundation

  • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

  • Project Manager, Open Cities Team

    • Sep 2019 - May 2020
    • Washington DC-Baltimore Area

    Managed schedules, budgets, process design, stakeholders, requirements, benefits, and risks for $1m Bloomberg Philanthropies Grant and $250k Gates Foundation / Ballmer Foundation-funded, Open Data consultancy projects.Scoped, initiated, coordinated, and ran (or helped run) Technical Assistance support engagements with US cities, leveraging user-centered design principals to help cities identify community data needs and open data to meet those needs.Lead / coached team in task decomposition, work breakdown, and network diagramming exercises to trace work packages to grant deliverables and identify opportunities for efficiency in existing service models.Helped team revise and templatize Scope of Work and other key project documents.Conducted remote and in-person stakeholder interviews and helped coordinate and facilitate design workshops.

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  Aptara

  • Chicago, IL / Los Angeles, CA (Remote)

  • Project Lead

    • Nov 2014 - Sep 2019
    • Chicago, IL / Los Angeles, CA (Remote)

    • Identified process opportunities and trained and managed decentralized local and remote teams, enabling >$200k new yearly project revenue• Worked with client-side (Pearson) Technical Product Team to identify workflow efficiencies and requirements for custom CMS; improved project timelines by up to 60%• Managed cross-departmental stakeholder and vendor relationships for successful platform migration of over 60 digital curricula, inclusive of tens of thousands of assets

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  Pearson North America

  • Chicago, IL

  • Digital Producer

    • Jun 2013 - Oct 2014
    • Chicago, IL

    • Supported metadata and asset management efforts for digital elementary literacy curricula• Spearheaded adoption of new metadata authoring and deployment workflow for flagship Realize learning system• Organized cross-product training sessions and weekly meetings with authoring leads division-wide• Met regularly with Product Owners and Sales teams to help identify customer priorities and respond to customer concerns

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  Gearwire

  • Chicago, IL

  • Content Manager / Media Producer

    • Jan 2008 - Jul 2011
    • Chicago, IL

    • Produced, managed, and published video, audio, and written content for music tech blog• Grew newsletter subscriber base from 4,000 to over 14,000 in one year; grew social media following (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) by 2x - 3x every year• Hands-on studio and location video production; spearheaded transition from MiniDV tape to tapeless and from SD to HD video production workflows; decreased on-location video production timelines by half• Forged and maintained manufacturer and distributor relationships; arranged for exclusive new-product announcements and reviews

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  Rich & Intelisano, LLP

  • Legal Assistant Office Manager

    • May 2007 - Sep 2007

    • Handled Administrative and Secretarial Responsibilities for boutique Securities Litigation and Arbitration firm representing high net-worth individuals and institutional investors. • Answered phones, maintained client filing, restocked office supplies, handled client billing, heavy copying of discovery production, etc. • Proofed pleadings and other legal filings and correspondence; drafted discovery requests and related correspondence. • Searched cases, statutes and state codes, and public Registered Broker information via Lexis, PACER, PIABA, FINRA and Google.