Minh Duong

As a Student Ambassador for Loughborough Business School I engaged with current and prospective students through a variety of university events. - Delivered presentations on undergraduate courses offered by Loughborough Business School and shared personal insights into the placement year process for securing a professional placement or study exchange in seminars and taster lectures. - Coached new student ambassadors and lecturers on Open Day events, providing information on scheduling and how to answer questions for prospective students. - Set up stalls at Open Day events for prospective students, collaborating with peers and lecturers to make sure all stalls were covered throughout the day. - Clarified queries on student and academic life at Loughborough University in one-to-one conversations.

During my professional placement at AlphaSights I worked in executive search, contracting industry professionals for short-term consulting positions with clients from private equity and consulting. - Managed stakeholder relationships through project meetings with clients and industry professionals. - Extracted valuable insights from contracted industry professionals and analysed data for information relevant to client projects, delivering over £150,000 in revenue in Q4 2022. - Recruited industry professional through database searched, cold calling, and interviewing. - Developed specialised knowledge of healthcare and renewable energy technologies. - Worked with AlphaSights management on a project to reduce industry professional churn along with other placement students.

As a Market Research Assistant for the IoT startup EoH, I compared e-health technology data between the U.S. and Vietnam to determine product features that would have the high chances of success if adapted to the Vietnamese market. - Created and organized datasets for recent USDA e-health and IoT patents, sourcing information from research papers, new articles, and patent pages. - Used SQL to analyse data for technology features that could be used adopted into the Vietnamese healthcare industry which faced considerable funding and staffing issues. - Drafted reports on technologies that were viable for implementation within the budget of $10,000, presenting and defending suggestions made from findings in talks with stakeholders.

Working for the Jefferson County Public Health Centre I was tasked with collecting and analysing data on community youth to determine the allocation of public health funds to appropriate resources. - Interviewed 100+ youth within the county about their views and knowledge on sexual health and substance abuse to determine how to best allocate $300,000 of public health budget. - Extracted useful insights from datasets using Excel and worked in a team to present findings and suggestions for the allocation of the public health budget. - Secured a $100,000 grant to improve BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and multiracial youth health in the state and successfully campaigned for increased public health spending in the state budget.