Emily Loew

Experience

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  UW - Center for Biology Education

  Jul 2008 - Jul 2009

  AmeriCorps*VISTA Coordinator

  Determined needs, direction and implementation of an after-school science club program in local elementary schools increasing clubs from 8 to 30 within a year. Co-coordinated a service-learning course at UW-Madison, evening trainings and speakers for club leaders. Created and implemented evaluations to determine club needs and improvements for future years. Documented and organized all activities, procedures and evaluations for future coordinators.

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  U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

  Feb 2011 - Aug 2011

  Conserving the Future Fellow

  Assisted in planning, coordinating, implementing and evaluating a 3-day, 1,200 participant national conference for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Wildlife Refuge System. Collaborated with local wildlife refuges, youth organizations, Friends group members and USFWS employees while effectively coordinating volunteer opportunities, visits to local refuges and conference logistics.

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  Girl Scouts of Wisconsin - Badgerland Council

  Oct 2011 - Dec 2012

  Membership Specialist

  Develop, plan and implement comprehensive recruiting strategies to identify, increase, support and maintain up to 3500 girl and adult members across Southwestern Wisconsin for the Girl Scouts of Wisconsin – Badgerland Council. Develop, retain and increase girl and adult membership, by implementing innovative recruitment strategies, in 6 geographic areas including 18 school districts across Southwestern Wisconsin.Identify, recruit, train and support all volunteers by providing support services enabling them to carry out their position responsibilities effectively in their communities. Show less

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  Cool Choices

  Dec 2012 - Feb 2017

  Established a new self-organizing scrum team by training on agile fundamentals and coaching team for sustaining changes introduced. Implemented Agile process for projects by training team to use Jira. Manage third-party contracts and timelines for development work, and clients.Manage software development process in keeping with identified client needs and organizational objectives:• Deliver project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria.• Report progress to all stakeholders through Sprint Burn-Down Reports, Iteration Burn-Down Reports, and velocity target updates.• Write User Stories based on the requirements gathered from all the stake holders.• Organize and facilitate Agile and Scrum meetings, which includes Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, and Sprint Review & Retrospective.• Coordinate with development team and other departments to finalize designs and formalize requirements. Show less

  • Project Manager

    Jan 2016 - Feb 2017

  • Program Manager

    Dec 2014 - Dec 2015

  • Program Coordinator

    Dec 2012 - Dec 2014
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  UW-Madison, Division of Information Technology (DoIT)

  Mar 2018 - now

  Academic Technology Project Manager at UW-Madison, Division of Information Technology (DoIT)