Trent Kajikawa

Experience

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  UCLA

  May 2015 - Jul 2016

  • Coordinate the program’s events to successfully serve 40,000+ students in Los Angeles County• Manage and train 28 Bruin Ambassadors in public speaking, preparation of events, and professional skills• Serve as a UCLA liaison at 80+ opportunities including presentations, college fairs, college tours, and admission workshops• Visit high schools in the Los Angeles area to present my UCLA experience, as well as information about the admission process to the University of California• Participate on student panels, conducted special request tours for groups and individuals, and assisted Undergraduate Admission through receptions, workshops, and conferences Show less • Served as the solely elected academic representative of 29,000+ undergraduates to faculty and administrators• Responsible for interviewing and recommending the Dean of Students and other positions within the Student Affairs department• Oversaw an Academic Affairs office budget of $45,000 and 40 undergraduate students to champion retention, accessibility, and outreach events• Represented undergraduates on the UCLA Steering Committee for Online Teaching and Learning with the Executive Vice Chancellor, Dean and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education, and various Vice Provosts• Advocated for increased student involvement with UCLA Registrar and UCLA College Academic Counseling • Lobbied on a state and local level for increased budget allocations for UCLA and the UC system• Collaborated with 13 elected representatives of the Undergraduate Students Association to allocate $4.4 million to student programming needs Show less

  • Bruin Ambassador Coordinator

    Sept 2013 - Jul 2016

  • Executive Board, Undergraduate Representative

    May 2015 - Jun 2016

  • Academic Affairs Commissioner

    May 2015 - May 2016
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  Hyundai Capital America

  Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  Global Intern - Hyundai Motor Finance Sales

  • One of six recipients to receive an invitation to the Hyundai Capital Global Internship• Benchmarked Hyundai Capital Services against local and international automotive captive finance companies• Placed 2nd internationally in a business case competition identifying global financing needs for a top-10 automotive company

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  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Sept 2016 - May 2017

  Research Intern

  • Collect, analyze, interpret and report on data of undergraduate students, learning assessment and educational cost information• Produce descriptive and inferential analyses, synthesize findings in numeric, graphical and written forms for university presidents, provosts, deans of student life, and institutional research directors

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  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Jul 2017 - Feb 2019

  Research and Data Systems Analyst

  Consortium on Financing Higher Education

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  University of Southern California

  Feb 2019 - Oct 2020

  Senior Technical Project Leader

  Office of Institutional Research

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  Common App

  Nov 2020 - now

  Data, Analytics, and Research - Data Operations Data, Analytics, and Research - Data Operations

  • Director

    Nov 2023 - now

  • Senior Manager

    Jun 2022 - Nov 2023

  • Data Scientist

    Nov 2020 - Jun 2022