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.
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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
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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
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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