Core Professional Strengths

 

 

 

Partner, Advanced Research Methods, LLC 2010 – 2014

 

Provides confidential research and consulting services to candidates, irrespective of political affiliation, on all levels of government that are seeking office

·   Published “Campaign in a Box”, (PlanYourCampaign.com) a one stop document for candidates seeking office

·   Successfully led five candidates to victory in 2010 using methods described in the Campaign in a Box

·   Consulting services based on unique campaign needs including opposition research and campaign management

·   Absentee voter campaigns

 

Political Volunteer Experience / Stay at Home Parent

 

Volunteer, Presidential Election 2004 and 2008

Volunteer, Third Congressional District 2006

Volunteer, Third Congressional District 2004                                   

                                  

·   Performed as database administrator and general office manager

·   Working closely with the candidates and key volunteers executed queries to provide granular grass roots data to closely identify campaign efforts for literature drops and robo dialing

·   Represented candidates at events

·   Participated in ‘get out the vote’ and other outbound calls to voters  

·   Solicited volunteers and donations

·   Completed literature drops and sign placement as requested

·   Acted as Web Master and performed site optimization

·   Completed  data entry, mailing lists and voter management using CompleteCampaigns as requested

Information Technology Experience

 

SIRVA Relocation: Plymouth, MN                                                                                  

Senior Application Development Manager                                                                               1999 - 2004

 

·   Contributed to SIRVA profitability by effectively communicating with executive teams, business unit directors and sales staff to adapt information systems to support company goals, greater user satisfaction, risk management and profitability of company real estate portfolio

·   Apply company project methodology and enforce project standards, taking initiatives to improve methodologies, processes, and productivity

·   Record key project related artifacts including: Project Charter, Scope/Statement of Work, requirements, milestone signoffs, risks & issues log, change requests, lessons learned, on-going support process, communications, and other required documents as necessary

·   Create and execute: project plan, schedule, budget, resource acquisition and allocation, communication plan and risk mitigation

·   Supervision of development staff

·   Delivered all projects on time and on budget by communicating status weekly to senior management

·   Analysis of  new developments in the relocation industry and testing these developments for integration into systems platform

·   Lead business analyst and liaison between information technology department and various business units to determine changes to information system to support SIRVA and SIRVA clients

·  Facilitate project meetings effectively, informing the project team of milestone activity and project change. 

·  Escalate appropriate risks and issues

·   Manage more complex and larger budget projects with minimal supervision and wide latitude for independent judgment

·   Supervised and wrote scope of work documents to support enhancements to business platform and customer requests

·   Performed triage on issues, recommending workable solutions and collaborating with project team to resolve software bug fixes and future application releases by conducting weekly change control meetings

 

Education 

 

  The University of Kansas; Lawrence Kansas – Piano Performance with Honors

  St. Cloud Technical College; St. Cloud MN – AAS Computer Programming