Leadership and Program Development
I am passionate about advancing great ideas, people, and organizations. I enjoy designing and co-engineering bold initiatives that are backed by pragmatic, actionable goals, and research. I have been recognized for organizational leadership, content, and course design. My impeccable work ethic and prowess in seeking opportunities to improve operational efficiencies and intentional inclusivity bolster my effectiveness as a leader. Every project I lead and invest my time in has the potential to make the world a better place.
Kolbe score: 7553.
SPECIALTIES INCLUDE:
Background & Expertise
Operations
Comprehensive knowledge of budget management methods and techniques. Expert knowledge with HR policy and formal procedure in an academic environment. Develops, maintains, and implements department policies and procedures that enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the organization. Resolves problems and issues affecting the department and directs measures to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the department. Expert ability to interface with diverse client groups and students with an emphasis on customer service and inclusivity. Ability to communicate both internally and externally across all management levels and build sustaining relationships. Ability to stimulate changes in individual, institutional, and corporate behavior to create a more sustainable environment and lead by example in communicating, participating, and encouraging support/development of the Institutions sustainability programs.
Team Management & Development
Skilled in effectively managing, supervising, and evaluating staff/student workers. Adept at managing cross-functional teams and a wide range of stakeholders. I am committed to developing colleagues and staff through both (1) micro-professional development opportunities, and (2) intergroup presentations on essential skills. May include to-do list management, fostering relationships/values thinking, managing competing/complicated partners, virtual collaborative working, planning, and visioning/futures thinking. To date, I have managed more than 80 employees.
Strategic Planning
Directs, manages, and oversees the design, development, coordination, and evaluation of departmental programs and projects. Ensures established outcomes are achieved. Expert skill in planning, analyzing, and coordinating activities and setting priorities. Short-term and long-term goal setting with evaluation/data collection to strengthen/refine plans. Lean Six Sigma, Green Belt Certified from Purdue in data-driven approaches to project management involving continuous improvement processes and knowledge management.
Grant Development
From ideation to submission, I have solo-authored & co-developed more than 40 full-scale bids for philanthropic and federal funds and recently won ~$1.5M. Construct budgets and timelines for project scope and scale; bold ideas through SMART + thoroughly researched concepts.
Computer Skills
All Microsoft Office Suite and Google Workspace (G Suite). Dedoose, Nvivo. Some SPSS and R. Adobe Illustrator, Lightroom, Screencast-o-matic, Survey Monkey, Qualtrics, QuestionPro, some Redcap, MailChimp, Zotero, Box, Dropbox. Airtable, Monday, Trello, Peoplesoft, Zoom. Light front-end web: Word Press, HTML5/Elementor. Some Workday, Salesforce, & Concur knowledge. Adept at learning new systems.
Scholarly Skills
Annie investigates complicated problems in novel and emerging ways through mixed-method iterative approaches. As a research operations executive lead, Annie organizes various types of researchers to support co-informing data collection strategies through descriptive and analytical methodological processes. Annie organizes and participates in collaborative research efforts that address strategic research challenges. Expert with Institutional Review Board processes related to human subjects research. Grounded theory techniques, survey design and deployment, interview and focus group design, content analysis, and discourse analysis. Detailed knowledge and implementation of principles, practices, and methods in data tracking and data analysis. Collaborative institutional training initiative (CITI Program) ID: 1978935; IRB – Social & Behavioral Research (Group 2) Human Research. Expiration Date:1/3/2025
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