RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
MetLife Cary, NC
Innovation Analyst April 2019- Present
Partner with global MetLife leaders to gather business requirements and identify enhancement opportunities through partnerships with venture capital firms, academia and/or enterprise vendors
Manage innovation relationships with 20+ strategic venture capital firms
Actively support co-investment activities including, due diligence and the development of investment recommendations
Lead the LatAm innovation relationship to promote strategic and growth initiatives
Project manage innovation portfolio to develop, implement and launch pilots with startups
Assist building Qlik Sense dashboards with Salesforce data for Senior Leadership teams
Analyst, IT Risk Governance Oct 2017- April 2019
Project lead for the development of metric reporting dashboard within Qlik Sense and Power BI
Partnered with Finance team to on-board ITRS into Apptio and develop a process of tracking budget for workforce, consultants and contracted services
Generate & analyze IT Risk Governance and Strategy metrics reported monthly to CISO, Business Information Security Officers, Regional CIO’s and Global ITRS leaders
Support Chief of Staff to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) by driving various activities including metrics coordination, leading staff meetings, 2018 project planning and workforce/budget monitoring (Apptio)
Merck Raleigh, NC
Associate Specialist IT, Business Consulting July 2016- May 2017
Led a Merck-sponsored Cybersecurity Case Competition hosted at NC State; Managed $100,000 budget and performed the master of ceremonies role
Promoted data analytics initiatives by aiding the build out of a Spotfire dashboard that provided insights on global communications and global real estate
Co-mentored two computer science senior design projects about user-managed access and visualizations in a risk management dashboard
Presented a case study solution developed with an international team about remote patient monitoring and virtual physician visits to Merck leadership
EDUCATION
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC August 2012- June 2016
Bachelors of Science, Chemical Engineering
Cumulative GPA: 3.64/4.0
AWARDS & ACTIVITIES
Special Achievement Award, Merck December 2016