Where I have worked

Experience

Over four years of portfolio and process work at a financial services firm, translating user and business needs into delivered change, and two school years teaching in Spain.

  • October 2024 — May 2026

    North American Language and Culture Assistant

    NALCAP · Vélez-Málaga and Madrid, Spain

    • Designed and delivered language and culture instruction to roughly 200 students per year across all ESO levels, developing all instructional materials independently and iterating on observed engagement and direct feedback
    • Collaborated with educators across five subject areas at a bilingual school, including biology, history, mathematics, and philosophy, adapting instruction to each domain and aligning with department leadership on objectives
  • June 2020 — August 2024

    Project Management Analyst

    Prudential Financial · Dresher, PA

    Project Management Associate from June 2020, Project Management Analyst from November 2021.

    • Oversaw the Acquisition Transformation portfolio of 51 initiatives across 20 initiative owners, moving $3.7M in net recurring benefit to executed or realized status, $1.3M favorable to plan commitment
    • Reviewed 60+ initiatives for an operational readiness self-service capability, consulting with initiative owners to surface gaps and establish reusable guidance and best practices
    • Launched 40+ service platform capabilities on an agile solution train, identifying the operational needs of nearly 30 teams under short turnaround and adapting the readiness process as scope and timelines shifted
    • Recovered an at-risk transition affecting 6 business units and 1,500+ users, replacing a manual folder-based process with a single mailing tool and restructuring coordination to prevent delay
    • Mapped current and future state workflows in Visio and PowerPoint, aligning stakeholders on how proposed changes would affect daily work and where handoffs would break
    • Supported user acceptance testing for a system launch, contributing to test criteria, observing users work through the new interface, and logging defects
  • May — August 2019

    Project Management Intern

    Prudential Financial · Dresher, PA

    • Shadowed Annuities Operations departments to understand the annuity life cycle and business processes
    • Analyzed all written communication sent throughout the life of an annuity contract
    • Improved customer communications to ensure clear and concise language
    • Presented process enhancement recommendations to leadership for implementation