Connor Wilcox

Professional responsibilities include providing support for long-range planning activities, assisting in research studies, prepare short-term special studies such as environmental, social, economic impact statements, and assist in preparing planning documents.

• Assisted in prioritizing repairs to low water crossings across MoDOT's Southwest Missouri District of 21 counties by mapping five years of reported incidents and created estimates of incident costs
• Enhanced transportation planning process through creating a scoring system that reviewed AADT of 10,000+ rural road segments to assist several regional planning commissions in their high priority unfunded needs requests
• Drafted technical reports summarizing findings from analysis conducted on the 400+ guardrail hit locations; presented information to assist team members in considering safer alternatives in high-risk accident areas defined in the report.

Coordinated with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent messaging across all channels.

• Provide strategic communications counsel to senior leadership, aligning messaging with organizational goals and BMO's long-term growth strategy in the United States around the integration of Bank of the West systems
• Spearhead thought leadership initiatives by creating content that aligned with business strategy, boosted employee engagement, and supported the BMORE program, which promotes non-traditional paths to finance careers
• Develop enterprise-wide communication vehicles, including newsletters, DEI initiatives, and workforce-related communications, including American Banker's Top Women in Finance and BMO's Hispanic Heritage Month campaigns and awards
• Manage monthly newsletters and mass emails for over 30,000 U.S. employees, ensuring timely and effective communication
• Overseeing logistics, communication strategies, and social media performance between internal and external partners to maximize communication effectiveness for community donations between $50,000 and $750,000

Leveraged analytics to optimize communications strategies, better targeting audiences, and achieving desired engagement and responses.

• Developed marketing strategies for print and digital materials with a focus on increasing reader engagement with local publications for all 32 US-based DLR Group locations
• Oversaw the daily operation and creation of business journal relationships with 20+ journals by pitching story ideas, reviewing content, and ensuring completion of projects by deadlines
• Built and maintained relationships with business journals and local publications, resulting in the 10th largest source of visits to the website with 1K+ unique visitors in one year
• Monitored functionality of intranet platform used daily by 1.5K employees, with the application of best practices and collection of performance analytics for stakeholder review