James Evans

System Design and Development: Iteratively formulated and built workflows, templates and filesharing for the newly minted UCF Partnerships team utilizing Microsoft Teams to empower lead generation and collaboration Cross-functional Collaboration: Connected across university divisions (research, president, colleges) to engage corporate partners with on-site visits for multi-channel ROI opportunities and gauge industry needs.

Attention to Detail: Operated in high-stress, real-time environments to bring sports content to air. Sole responsibility for the score bug shown on live TV; required in-depth knowledge of the game rules, a level head in fixing time-sensitive errors and an ability to focus on gameplay for extended durations of time.

Strategic Content Production: Drove a 39.3% increase in average weekly streams within six months of joining UCF’s podcast as sole operator. Led content strategy and creation for presidential and institutional research- centric social media accounts. Supported post-incident and annual internal reporting. Adaptability: Solely managed institutional social media during Hurricanes Ian and Nicole – acting as a linchpin for the bi-directional flow of information on the university’s largest communications channels. Proactively developed workflows for resilient, multi-team collaboration (President, Public Safety, Student Support, etc.).

Business Intelligence Research: Authored reports on financial and operational reporting within the SaaS industry. Educated the team on data analytics as a tool to enhance service in those areas – intentionally aligned with the firm’s long-term market positioning strategy. Iterative Innovation: Developed an automated Microsoft Excel workbook for import, analysis and reporting of client financial data using Visual Basic.

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