SHANNON MURRAY

• Served as information research liaison between client's development departments and their project team leads to ensure successful implementation of improvement plans and project changes.
• Identified trouble points and provided actionable strategies to management team. This improved project workflow by 40%.
• Tracked key metrics and devised data visualization dashboards to make complex data more accessible to team leads.
• Reviewed and presented emerging data reports and general industry literature to clients in order to keep them abreast of evolving research procedures and new IRB-guidelines.

• Assisted head recruitment team in development and implementation of recruitment strategies to attract top talent from variety of industries.
• Researched job descriptions and accompanying qualifications to assess necessary applicant requirements and ensure proper job placements.
• Participated in interviews with potential candidates, to evaluate their qualifications and skills.
• Secured over 100 long-term employment placements during my employment.
• Identified issues in recruitment database, and successfully implemented long-term strategies to improve overall recruitment outcomes.

• Assisted students with standardized course planning and registration for both LSAT and MCAT examinations.
• Developed and implemented student guidance plans to foster academic success.
• Planned and promoted career planning presentations, work experience programs and career workshops for students and faculty.
• Increased student programming and overall student attendance by 70%.
• Created and maintained databases to track student progress with academic support services, and resource utilization, resulting in a 100% increase in the efficiency and effectiveness of academic support services.
• Interfaced and developed programming with department heads and alumni in legal and political professions.
• Managed team of 10 student research associates.
• Stayed abreast of all Medical, and Law school admissions processes, and procedures to ensure continued success of the Pre Law/Pre Med program at CUNY Brooklyn College.

• Coordinated with faculty and academic departments alike, to provide academic accommodations and support services for students with disabilities, resulting in 67% of my assigned students graduating with honors.
• Developed and implemented a tailored academic support program that provided tutoring and study skills workshops resulting in a 30% increase in student GPAs.
• Conducted weekly internship/job seminars on topics such as “internship importance” & “job readiness”.
• Maintained student tracking database to ensure continued department success.
• Conducted research on student performance, retention, and graduation rates to develop solid solutions for academic challenges, resulting in an overall increase in the effectiveness of academic support services.

• Created comprehensive political, legislative and regulatory goals, strategies and plans for Sephardic Community organization during 2008 Presidential election.
• Drafted articles, letters, reports and technical documents on policy and public issues related to 2008 presidential campaign.
• Executed qualitative and quantitative analysis on data pertaining to changes in polling data.
• Compiled and edited literature reviews and attended legislative and regulatory hearings to report information.