Elliot Marks

Experience

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  EisnerAmper LLP (formerly Harb, Levy & Weiland, LLP)

  Jun 2009 - Aug 2009

  Accounting Intern

  Collaborated on projects with the business intelligence team, prepared individual tax returns, and analyzed balance sheets and portfolio returns for hedge fund clients. Created communications for the executive committee that resulted in plans for a website overhaul. Invited back by managing partner for full-time employment after graduation.

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  Blue Sky Marketing

  Feb 2010 - Oct 2010

  Marketing Assistant

  Created presentation-quality digital price quotes to promote sales and increase operational efficiency. Reduced office chaos with development of detailed spreadsheets to monitor business transactions over time. Efforts contributed to employer achieving best sales month of career during summer 2010.

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  University of California, San Diego

  Jun 2010 - Jun 2011

  Teaching Assistant, Economics

  Worked for four academic quarters as a TA for one lower division and four upper division economics courses (Basic Macroeconomics, Economics of Mexico, and Intermediate Microeconomics A, B & C): Presented advanced topics such as the Implicit Function Theorem, the Weierstrass Theorem, and Lagrangian optimization. Assisted 80-270 students per quarter to engage with course material through weekly discussion sections and office hours. Received excellent student reviews and professor feedback, specifically after midterm review sessions in large lecture halls. Show less

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  Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

  Aug 2011 - Dec 2016

  Helped build a new project management and business process improvement (Lean Six Sigma) department.Managed cross-functional process improvement projects, including implementation of customer relationship management (CRM) and digital asset management (DAM) systems.Interviewed team members, analyzed risk-benefit tradeoffs of a reorganization, and recommended transformation from a siloed structure to a shared services model. Obtained buy-in from senior management and executed change management plan.Led the development and public launch of the multimedia 2015 annual report. Show less Worked with teams across multiple departments to overhaul the design and functionality of a public website and a game about monetary policy. Facilitated rapid product refinements by gathering a range of perspectives, prototyping, iterating, and building consensus around solutions.Produced briefings about monthly Board of Directors meetings and quarterly Economic Advisory Council meetings for policymakers on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and researched and responded to economic questions from private-sector CEOs and CFOs.Selected by senior management to manage workloads of 15 Research Associates. Provided coaching on communication, prioritization, and time management. Increased engagement by redistributing work across groups; resulting improvements in efficiency allowed staff reduction by one full-time position.Led an 18-person team on fact-checking of 30 speeches by the President and built an internal product to help streamline the process. Trained staff in other departments on the process by request of the SVP of communications. Show less Co-authored a report about the impact of sequestration on unemployment insurance (UI) claims data for the Chairman of the Federal Reserve System.Developed cloud-based macroeconomic forecast infrastructure in six months using Visual Basic to seamlessly integrate Excel, Word, and a user interface. Implementation of the new infrastructure reduced required labor inputs by more than 50%.Established procedure and motivated three Research Associates to perform regular maintenance of back-end infrastructure, in SAS and Stata, of a data-intensive public product on a six-week refresh cycle.Surveyed business executives and wrote about economic conditions in 16 releases of the Beige Book. Proposed, planned, and executed a yearlong project to phase in a web-based survey, which cut costs and resulted in improved data quality, response rates, and analytical capability. Show less Wrote code to perform statistical analyses on a variety of panel datasets with up to 10 million observations. Creative technical decisions led to a publication and co-authorship of a working paper.Balanced concurrent long-term and short-term, occasionally high-stress, and extremely detail-oriented projects, meeting deadlines and consistently exceeding expectations of both team members and managers. Led 2012 new grad recruitment filling several open positions in the international and finance groups. Show less

  • Project Manager, Communications and Community Engagement

    Dec 2014 - Dec 2016

  • Senior Economic Analyst, Research Communications

    May 2013 - Dec 2014

  • Economic Analyst, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics

    Jul 2012 - May 2013

  • Research Associate, International Finance

    Aug 2011 - Jul 2012
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  Smart Wires Inc.

  Dec 2016 - Mar 2020

  Led team of project managers on deployments of new technology for utility customers in the U.S., Europe, and Australia, enabling integration of hundreds of megawatts of renewable energy onto the grid while achieving 100%+ year-over-year revenue growth and 95%+ customer satisfaction scores. Improved efficiency and output from a resource-constrained team by standardizing project controls processes (related to budget tracking, status updates, project schedules, and key customer requirements) and rolled out a “Quarterly Sync” process to set and monitor high-priority 90-day goals with direct reports. Developed customer satisfaction evaluation program to quantitatively measure customer satisfaction that was praised by an external ISO 9001 auditor. Solved an urgent, complex, and highly-stressful international trade problem that kept a critical $1M+ project alive and led to repeat business opportunities with a top customer. Developed a relationship and onboarded an external logistics partner that prevented the problem from occurring again.

  • Director, Project Management

    May 2018 - Mar 2020

  • Manager, Operations

    Mar 2017 - May 2018

  • Senior Analyst, Operations

    Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
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  OhmConnect

  Mar 2020 - May 2022

  • Head of Program Management Office, Utility Partnerships

    Oct 2021 - May 2022

  • Director, Partnerships

    Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
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  Apple

  May 2022 - now

  Business Development