Employment

The Heartland Institute

Description

Rebuild and expand the Center for Education Opportunities through effective research, writing, public speaking, coalition building, social media outreach, and legislative outreach. Mentor younger staff professionally and personally.

Achievements

• Analyzed research data to summarize results into infographics and reference material to be disseminated through public speaking, meeting with legislators, and testimony in legislative hearings.
• Managed multiple projects simultaneously to successful completion. These included a monthly newspaper, book creation and marketing, legislative event planning, weekly legislative outreach emails, bill tracking, and legislative lobbying trips for staff.
• Increased partner coalition and collaboration by over 500%.
• Mentored less experienced staff in personal and professional development.

Description

Work with clients to analyze a business’s processes and needs. Plan, design, and implement web-based applications, and process improvements to enable future company growth.

Achievements

• Analyzed customer needs to plan, manage, and create websites to serve current and future needs.
• Created current customer data to create new infographics, stories, and messaging resulting in an increase of 300% in social media following and engagement, more than 100% in email marketing, and speaking invitations by more than 50%.
• Researched, designed, and implemented website and database uptime and disaster recovery plans.

Description

Manage company databases, websites, and email lists while strategically planning for future needs and strategic outreach with social media and public speaking.

Achievements

• Researched, designed, and implemented a website uptime system to handle more than 3,000,000 visitors per day during peak times.
• Designed, planned, and managed the creation and ongoing maintenance of more than 100 websites.

Description

Manage current property tax system databases and applications. Plan and build for future data infrastructure growth, design and implement application solutions to increase productivity, and plan and implement a database recovery system.

Achievements

• Strategically planned a new hosting environment, redesigned processes to meet current and future business growth projections, and reduced execution times by up to 95%.
• Introduced a documentation system to ensure proper naming convention, process diagrams, backup and recovery strategies, software versioning, and system operation consistency.
• Created custom applications with integration into the main data system increasing productivity by more than 50% for property assessment staff.
• Automated the installation and update process for the main application and allow remote access allowing faster support and technical assistance to remote locations.
• Planned and implemented a data recovery system to enable restoration within minutes of any system crashes.

Description

Work with clients to analyze a business’s processes and needs. Plan, design, manage teams to implement server-based and web-based applications, and process improvements to enable future company growth.

Achievements

• • Instrumental in designing and developing a project that received a client award for best ROI with savings of more than $5 million per year.

• • Co-Designed, planned, and led a team through the full development life cycle of the backend, frontend, and load testing for USA Today’s fantasy football site. Ranked as a Top 5 Fantasy Sports site in 1999.

Description

Analyze current business processes and needs to design improved processes for automation, data standardization, and data transformation from multiple data systems.

Achievements

• Designed a data migration system, including data standardization, to automate imports into the existing company database from multiple data sources.

Achievements

• Coded a server-side database system for a next-generation logistical package as part of a 10-person backend team. The project was completed early to allow me to assist and complete a second database server compatibility.

Description

Plan, design, manage teams to implement server-based automated remote client data collection and reporting, and process improvements to enable future company growth.

Achievements

• • Designed and implemented an automated remote data collection from 15 – 20 client locations.

• • Designed and implemented reports with new and existing KPI measurements to allow data analysis in a just-in-time logistics ordering/delivery system.

Description

Design, plan, and manage a team to implement data collections systems for various medical equipment.

Achievements

• • Designed and led a team to develop an automated data collection system from medical instruments.

• • Modified and enhanced programming to operate an optical eye test hardware.

Achievements

• Wrote a program for a 64-node supercomputer to attempt to solve the upper bound on Gauss’ Unit Space Lattice Point Problem. The resulting data proved the upper bound was 0.58 instead of the previous upper bound of 0.63.