IT Solutions Portfolio

Preliminary Round

The Audience

The Board of Directors for Dress for Success Vancouver.

The Challenge

Help Dress For Success Vancouver reach 1,000 women and raise $1,000,000 within 3 years.

My Key Contribution

Innovative design for reaching more women outside of the Metropolitan areas by using methods of direct to consumer marketing.

My Lesson Learned

Narrowly defining a project scope can result in a large missed opportunity. In this case, we needed to spend more time developing funding for the IT part of our solution.

Preliminary Round

The Audience

C-Suite for Forth Smart.

The Challenge

How should Bee Wallet be differentiated in order to create a sticky e-wallet with one million users and a 50% active users in two years, using a profit-driven revenue model that maintains partnerships and transactional services currently offered?

My Key Contribution

Deep understanding of current competition in e-wallet security functionalities, Thai shopping patterns, and personal financial security beliefs.

My Lesson Learned

Sometimes, clients prefer strategic marketing campaigns over changing their product. A good solution needs to understand where clients are willing to invest their dollars.

The Audience

IT Directors at Travelers Insurance.

The Challenge

How can we empower our customers to recover from a catastrophe?

My Key Contribution

Identifying an opportunity to expand natural disaster relief to include mental health resources.

My Lesson Learned

Stakeholder audience is the most important aspect to presenting. Although the C-suite loved our growth mindset, our key stakeholders (IT directors) wanted to focus on improving Cat Van bandwidth.

The Audience

Do Day Dream, LLC. C-Suite and C-Suite representatives from a variety of international consulting firms.

The Challenge

DIFFERENTiate Do Day Dream, LLC.’s value proposition, DYNAMICally leverage asset agility, and DEVELOP a sustainable business model that honors its Thai roots.

My Key Contribution

A deep understanding of Thai woman’s cosmetic usage throughout her life and room for growth outside of the current target market.

My Lesson Learned

A good solution needs to align with the values of the client. A safe solution for a risk-taking client will not be successful.

The Audience

Target Merchandisers and category Management Professionals.

The Challenge

How can we empower our customers to raise children in a gender-bias free world?

My Key Contribution

A thorough risk analysis of being a first mover in the space, and how to best manage these risks.

My Lesson Learned

Branding a solution well can be the difference between first and second place.

The Audience

IT Directors for the University of Minnesota.

The Challenge

Create a roadmap to support the Internet of Things for the University of Minnesota.

My Key Contribution

How to best develop the IoT skills needed within the organization, how to manage the IoT teams, and how to conduct change management during the IT implementation.

My Lesson Learned

The best way to build rapport with a client is to know your stuff and know their company culture. The client selected us to move forward because we understood their needs and culture better than any other group.

The Audience

Twin Cities Business Leaders.

The Challenge

Sabina’s growth has stagnated in the face of rising external pressures such as increased competition from low-cost producers and higher manufacturing costs. How can they best grow their business?

My Key Contribution

An innovative CSR initiative to bring economic development to areas of rural Thailand while decreasing obsolete inventory.

My Lesson Learned

A good solution is just one half of winning over a client. A great presentation is the other half.

Reflection video

The Audience

Learning Abroad Center for the University of Minnesota.

The Challenge

Reflect on my study abroad trip which focused on the growth of IT companies in Dublin.