Patrick Parkes, MBA

Experience

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  Forest Hills Foods

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2008

  Customer Service & Office Associate

  -Organized the store’s digital archive of purchase and return invoices.-Updated existing product and new product registries for use by checkout lanes.-Responded to general product and store layout inquiries from customers.

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  Champaign County Public Defender's Office

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2010

  Undergraduate Legal Intern

  In this role, I completed over 110 hours throughout the semester assisting the office attorneys with case discovery research, court processes research, outline and note preparation, as well as client phone calls and other clerical tasks. I was 1 of 5 interns selected out of 77 applicants to participate in this inaugural internship program.

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  The Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Foundation

  Jan 2011 - May 2011

  Fundraising Development Intern

  In this role, I was responsible for editing the organization's biannual newsletter, conducting market research on prospective donors, and editing correspondence to these prospects. I also maintained the organization's donor contact and gift history registries, prepared monthly expense reports, scanned expense receipts, and updated checking account registries.

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  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Business

  May 2011 - Jan 2011

  Content Writer & Research Assistant

  In this role, I assumed sole responsibility for the researching, writing, and editing of a business leadership case study profiling the entrepreneurial spirit of disability rights and services pioneer Timothy J. Nugent.

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  Kansas Policy Institute

  Jan 2013 - Feb 2017

  Fiscal Policy Analyst

   Secured transparency for taxpayers via negotiation and fulfilled hundreds of open records requests annually, spanning 286 school districts, 82 state agencies, and 105 counties.  Designed compelling advocacy narratives for blog posts, news editorials, interviews, infographics, podcasts, and policy guides to expose wasteful government spending and overreach; influenced audiences of 3,000 Facebook users, 1,500 Twitter followers, and 165 legislators.

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  State Policy Network

  Jun 2017 - Nov 2017

  Freelance Writer

   Crafted a series of training articles by demystifying complex datasets and resources; reached early-career policy analysts within 65 think tanks across each of the 50 states.

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  EDUStaff, LLC

  Oct 2017 - Jan 2019

  Substitute Teacher

   Established quick rapport and trust with students and staff; nimble adaptation of course content and teaching strategies have earned repeat, daily call-backs across 6 school districts.  Recognized for ability to inspire students by being selected as keynote speaker to address 750+ students for school-wide disability-awareness-themed event, “Day of Caring.”  Integrated strategic decision-making and communication skills to facilitate daily progress of academically and socially diverse 20-30 student teams across traditional K-12 and special education spectra. Mostrar menos

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  AllianceBernstein

  Jan 2020 - Jun 2020

  Broker-Dealer Operations Associate

  Deployed the extreme confidentiality and attention to detail necessary to perform margin-loan and other recurring-transaction quality-control checks, foreign wire transfers, and daily treasury borrowing projections

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  Disability Advocates of Kent County

  Jun 2020 - Feb 2024

  Business Development Coordinator, Absolutely Accessible Kent

  ➢ Managed fulfillment of deliverables across multi-year city accessibility improvement consulting projects, amounting to 375,000+ in grant and fee-for-service revenue.➢ Curated all speakers, transition scripts, audio-visual, and other programmatic aspects for an annual architectural workshop serving 150+ project stakeholders.➢ Delivered disability awareness trainings to 10+ corporate and/or community audiences per year.

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  United Spinal Association

  Feb 2024 - now

  Development Manager