Selected as one of 13 participants out of 200+ applicants for PMDojo's Spring 2021 Product Accelerator Program. High level goals involved ideating, conceptualizing, designing, testing and launching a live product MVP.

• Identified target market and user pain points, determined and iterated on a problem statement, developed user personas and built customer journey maps

• Conducted user interviews, beta testing sessions and built low and high fidelity prototypes

• Wrote user stories, acceptance criteria and conducted backlog grooming/refinement

• Developed a Product Release Document, release plans and go-to market strategy

• Launched Engage, a live product for nonprofit fundraisers, using a no-code platform

• Advised and coached 13 high school students on college application related writing, including Common App essay and supplemental essay questions

• Consulted and collaborated with clients on creative brainstorming, idea generation and organization, and assisted with copy editing, formatting and proofing

• Successful acceptance to colleges including Cornell, Northwestern, Tulane, UF and UM

• Developed and sustained relationships with cross-functional teams, including internal stakeholders and sponsors, as well as external vendors and consultants to drive project actions for multi-million dollar vessel modernization programs and special projects

• Led weekly meetings with SMEs, chaired project quality gates, supervised risk mitigation plans and managed project planning, tracking and status reporting

• Organized technical and design workshops and meetings, including agenda planning and action item follow-up, to ensure translation of business to technical and design requirements

• Formalized and rolled out a new process methodology in partnership with Process Improvement teams that allowed department to attain earliest recorded lead time for a project initiation (17 months out)

• Monitored 35,000 user CRM and built out a custom moves management system to improve efficacy of prospect pipeline and enrich quality of donor leads for fundraisers

• Executed over 30 national events, 2 galas and 3 large mail appeals annually by working with development team to outline scope and track progress for all department led initiatives

• Enhanced outputs for donor communications within organization’s larger marketing program by collaborating cross-functionally with internal teams