Business Analyst

GLENDA .M. KENNETH

www.linkedin.com/in/glendakenneth Cell: 813-***-**** Email: **********@*****.***.

PROFILE

I’m a detail oriented, team-oriented, hard-working, strategic and critical thinker, with excellent communication and analytical skills. As a certified associate project manager, I have multifunctional experience in demographic research and leadership. I am actively seeking a position where I can contribute to a forward thinking and innovative company, where I know I can flourish and bring superior value to the company.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Demographic Research

Analytical Thinking

Strategic thinking

Office administration

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Problem solving skills

Customer service

Visual Modelling skills

Project Management methodologies execution

Critical thinking

Documentation and specification skills

Data management

EDUCATION

Sykes College of Business, University of Tampa. FL, USA. December 2015

Master in Business Administration (MBA) in progress

Concentration: Information Systems Management

GPA: 3.58

Ahmadu Bello University, Kaduna State, Nigeria January 2011

Bachelor of Science in Economics

Second class upper

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Academic Success Coach

The University of Tampa, Academic Centre of Excellence Sept 2015- Till date

I’m currently volunteering as a coach as part of the coaching for student success program sponsored by the Academic Center of Excellence at The University of Tampa. I’m working with an undergraduate freshman through a personal learning process to define personal and professional goals and align them with to their academic and educational goals. The success of this program will promote excellence and discipline for student success. Success will be tracked by the Aademic Centre of Excellence through submitted weekly reports.

Research Assistant May 2015-July 2015

The University of Tampa, Entrepreneurship Center

I worked part time as a research assistant with Prof. Eric Liguori for HPLife and NACCE to explore contemporary trends in entrepreneurship education across the U.S. In Spring of 2015 over 300 colleges participated in an in-depth survey and the information is being combined with previous data from the NLS 2014 survey. I performed a literature search for relevant articles and journals for the project I cleaned up the data. I provided survey improvement by comparing past survey with the most present survey material. I contacted previous survey respondents to solicit more information, to fill in missing entries for the second survey and coding additional information I gathered.

Pembi Academy, Jos, Nigeria August 2012-August2013

Assistant Financial Administrator

In this position I assisted in all financial and bursary related matters. Additionally I was in charge of tuition and examination fee collection and also assisted in the computer lab

Federal Capital Territory Administration, Abuja Nigeria August 2011-June2012

Research Assistant

I participated in field work gathering primary data for research purposes. As part of the ICT sub-team, I was involved in building a database that housed information for all registered businesses in the FCT. Additionally as part of the research sub-team, involved in data analysis. I worked on the Millennium Development Goals, demographic survey for Abuja in 2012, The Abuja Business Directory for 2011 and the Abuja Park and Pay survey in 2012 conducted to ascertain the revenue that would be generated from paying to park within the city limits. Paid parking implemented across the city in 2012. Finally I greeted and interacted with incoming guests for a department with nine staff and twenty two research assistants.

TECHNOLOGY&LANGUAGES

Software: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Share Point, Access, And Project) SQL server (writing queries) Languages: English (Native), French (Limited working proficiency), Hausa (Professional working Proficiency)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Memberships: Cisco Systems (CCNA), Microsoft Professionals (MCP), PMI (CAPM)

LEADERSHIP INVOLVEMENTS AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

Facilitator

Teco Energy center, Leadership

Feb 2015

Summit, 2015

International Students Organization

Volunteer

August 2014

Peace Volunteer center

Campus Volunteer

September 2014- Present

The National Society for

Membership outreach chair

September 2014 – Present

Leadership and Success

UT Business Analytics club

Member

April 2015- Present

SELECTED COURSEWORK & CASE STUDIES

Marketing 609, (Marketing Management and Customer value) September 2014-December 2014

The University of Tampa- Marketing development plan

Worked with a juicing company with two locations in the Tampa/St Petersburg area. As part of a team of marketing consultants, I did an in-depth quantitative and qualitative research of the competitors and their customers in the Tampa bay area to provide competitor analysis for the company. Researched the company’s customers and evaluated customer retention. Recommendations for effective customer relationship management were provided and adopted by the company. Inventory management solutions in other to provide quality customer satisfaction was provided. Presented the development plan and research to the company owners via a power point presentation.

Accounting 610, (Accounting and Value Creation) January 2015-April 2015

The University of Tampa

Acted as financial analysts and conducted a brief industry, SWOT and PEST analysis and an in-depth financial analysis of one of leading grocery chains. Using the 10-k reports and other sources. Using excel I conducted vertical and horizontal common size analysis of for the balance sheets and income statements using 2008 as base year. Reformulated the income statement to include operating versus non-operating items. Adjusted for operating leases and purchase obligations on the Off-balance sheet. Calculated profitability ratios, liquidity ratios, capital structure and solvency ratios, asset utilization and efficiency ratios and investor ratios.

Estimated the value of the company and its stock price using the DCF method. Provided recommendations to improve the

ROE of the company. Finally as a team we presented our case using power point presentation

ITM 608, (Information Systems and Supply Chain Management) January 2015-April 2015

The University of Tampa

I examined the purchasing system of a division of a Fortune 500 company while corresponding with the supply chain manager of that division. Starting from its sourcing decisions; make or buy to order placements and release using the SAP material management module. I identified a potential bottleneck should the division experience growth, in the purchase order flow and provided recommendations.

ITM 614 (Project Management) May 2015-June 2015

The University of Tampa

With my team we executed a project for a company who wants to create and shoot a TV show pilot. To execute the project we applied the project management five process groups, starting with producing a project charter and ending the project with a lessons learned report. We experienced a project delay, but got back on schedule by eliminating tasks that were on our critical path that the Microsoft project software had recognized as critical tasks that were not very critical and reassigned our task dependencies to allow tasks to run in parallel. Our EVM calculations improved by the end of the project and we completed it on schedule.

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