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Natalie O'Neil

Summary

Innovative thought leader in change management, organizational strategy, and professional development, dedicated to operational effectiveness and capacity building through authenticity, integrity, and transparency. Dynamic and performance-driven business professional with high integrity, strong work ethic and great leadership skills. Meticulous and resourceful Business Manager with proven success leading productive teams, controlling budgets, networking to drive growth initiatives and marketing to maximize brand outreach.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Interim COO & Director of Operational Strategy

AIChE
NY/Remote
03.2021 - Current
  • Oversees daily business processes encompassing institute finances and operational management.
  • Optimizes organization by identifying and executing best practices and standards through solutions-driven, human-centered methodology, bolstering efficiency of operational and strategic objectives
  • Oversees and enhances financial and operational systems for tracking and record keeping, budgeting and forecasting, staffing, portfolio building, and project attainment
  • Formulates strategies to enhance support for internal and external stakeholders through metrics and systems processing.
  • Establishes and executes efficiency and optimization standards using methodologies such as Agile, Six Sigma, and Business Process Design.
  • Executes gap analyses and needs assessments for current and upcoming initiatives.
  • Establishes and sustains action plans with comprehensive process documentation
  • Facilitates support and guidance for business operations and executive leadership, while developing training resources for staff
  • Implements processes to enhance professional development, community engagement, capacity building, economic uplift, and innovation advancements.
  • Implementation of CFR and FAR guidelines
  • Uphold compliance standards for cooperative agreements
  • Employs data analytics to facilitate informed decision-making
  • Facilitates grant writing, processing, and reporting for achievement of funding opportunities.
  • Optimize reporting procedures to elevate accuracy and efficiency in documentation.
  • Engage with stakeholders to collect essential information for grant applications
  • Supervise grant expenditures and uphold funding guideline compliance.
  • Formulate, initiate, and apply SOP policy frameworks
  • Project scope, sequencing, and timeline execution

Graduate School of Education Instructor

Rutgers University
NJ/Remote
08.2015 - Current
  • Curriculum development and implementation of online, asynchronous courses
  • Instruct utilizing best practices, educational theory, and classroom management strategies
  • Educational technology analysis, integration and implementation
  • Utilize Standards-based practice for teaching excellence
  • Educational trends, tools, and instructional practice analysis and application
  • Design hands-on, project-based, and collaborative learning experiences
  • Assessments, rubrics, and resources collaborative development
  • Student- and Adult- Learning Theory implementation
  • Backwards Design organizational structuring
  • Differentiated and scaffolded instruction
  • Course scope and sequence development and execution
  • Metrics and data analysis to identify areas needing additional support

Professional Development and Higher Education Program Manager

NKBA
NJ
08.2019 - 03.2021
  • Strategic planning for professional development, higher education, and publications programs
  • End-to-end project development including print, digital marketing, sponsorship, product packaging, sales, template design, training modules, and programs for discipline-specific industry professionals
  • Conduct needs assessments, implementation strategies, and deploy streamlined processes for best practice
  • Full cycle program management, including professional procedures, certifications, & continuing ed
  • Manage Affiliated Schools, Educators, & Students program
  • Membership engagement process design and implementation
  • Qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis
  • Develop and implement engagement opportunities between educators, students, and industry leaders
  • Compose, design, and manage quarterly Newsletter publication
  • Design wireframes and UX for department-specific web pages
  • Build and maintain microsites
  • Develop, deploy, and maintain programming

Development and Design Manager

Rutgers University
NJ
05.2017 - 08.2019
  • Needs assessment and strategic planning for program development and implementation
  • Policies and procedures documentation and implementation
  • Learning Management System, Learning Software, and educational technology systems administrators
  • Interdisciplinary and inter-departmental programs facilitator
  • Systems implementation to streamline data and technology processes
  • Training and professional development design and and implementation facilitator
  • Needs assessment, research, and data collection for program facilitation and iteration
  • SOP development and strategic planning for organization-wide IT, Instructional Design, and Instructional collaboration
  • Train, deploy, and maintain database, exam software, and learning management system integration
  • Develop Bi-monthly interdepartmental and interdisciplinary communications via email, online, and in-person meetings with faculty, staff and students

Education

MA - Liberal Studies

Ramapo College
NJ
12.2011

M.Ed - Education

Rutgers University
NJ
05.2005

BA - English

Rutgers University
NJ
05.2004

Skills

  • Change management
  • Thought leadership
  • Database management
  • Analytics
  • Conflict resolution
  • Planning and execution
  • Leadership engagement
  • Prioritization and meeting deadlines
  • Technical writing
  • Communication
  • Problem solving
  • Critical thinking
  • Needs assessment
  • Instructional best practices
  • Strategic planning
  • Emergent technologies
  • Curriculum design and implementation
  • Service and staff management
  • Data analysis and metrics
  • Research
  • Writing
  • Presentations
  • Technical and educational training
  • Marketing
  • Grant writing
  • LMS management
  • Training
  • Adult learning theory
  • Scope and sequence
  • Project development
  • Program management
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Instruction
  • Leadership

Certification

  • Educational Leadership Certification, NJEXCEL Foundation for Educational Administration and Leadership, New Jersey, NJ
  • Google Certification, Google, Global
  • Fellow - Writing, National Writing Project Fellowship, New Jersey, NJ

Affiliations

  • Watercolor and Mixed Media Artist
  • Home and Wellness Product Design
  • Young Adult Fiction Author

Timeline

Interim COO & Director of Operational Strategy

AIChE
03.2021 - Current

Professional Development and Higher Education Program Manager

NKBA
08.2019 - 03.2021

Development and Design Manager

Rutgers University
05.2017 - 08.2019

Graduate School of Education Instructor

Rutgers University
08.2015 - Current

MA - Liberal Studies

Ramapo College

M.Ed - Education

Rutgers University

BA - English

Rutgers University