Brandon Park

Experience

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  Freelance

  May 2002 - Dec 2006

  Film Editor

  Early in my career, I provided freelance film and video editing for various documentaries and docuseries in NYC. I was responsible for translating the creative briefs into final visual deliverables, collaborating across departments to direct technical aspects of video recording, editing, and production. I also served as an instructor for The Edit Center’s intensive classes, where I equipped aspiring editors with the skills necessary to succeed in a highly competitive industry.

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  Hotel Entre Dos Aguas

  Jan 2007 - Jul 2018

  GM & Co-Owner

  In 2007, with a partner, I purchased and re-engineered an existing hotel business in Costa Rica. I pulled from a deep understanding of hospitality services and management to foster a personalized guest experience characterized by authenticity, empathy, and understanding.In addition to growing the hotel to a profitable business, I also built, developed, and retained a six-member team of hospitality employees and provided ongoing training on guest engagement strategy, customer service, and operational excellence. + Lonely Planet Pick of the Area.+ Awarded 8 consecutive TripAdvisor Excellence awards. Show less

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  Brandon Park Consulting

  Jun 2014 - Aug 2020

  Partnered with startups, entrepreneurs, non-profits, best-selling authors, and freelance service providers in the optimization of their donor/ecommerce funnels and service proposals. Clients included The Real Dill, Tender Belly, Ram Dass, Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, and Alan Watts, among others. + Drove adoption for clients by demonstrating how audiences could generate value and impact from their services. This was done through surveys, a/b testing, and best practices.+ Worked cross-functionally with client's marketing teams and acted as the voice of the customer and donors.+ Advocated for offers and improvements to champion growth and deliver even more value to stakeholders+ Improved visits to donation pages for JackKornfield.com 273%, managed to increase donations 680% for RamDass.com over the second half of 2014, and added new revenue streams through informational products, donate what you want services, and increased online donations on RamDass.com, to name a few demonstrated ways that I helped provide. Show less

  • Business Coach

    Jan 2017 - Aug 2020

  • Conversion optimization consultant

    Jun 2014 - Apr 2020
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  The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic

  May 2020 - Jul 2021

  Served alongside a team of subject matter experts and coordinated activities across nationwide teams of up to 800 volunteers at the forefront of the global pandemic, transforming localized and global action in response to COVID-19. + Managed the identification, onboarding, and training of a 300-person volunteer team while providing ongoing coaching support to ensure the team achieved program objectives.+ Built strong relationships with departmental managers to understand their needs and align priorities, resulting in increased collaboration and streamlined processes across the organization.+ Championed diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across CTP's volunteer program, driving efforts to foster a culture of respect, understanding, and collaboration among volunteers from diverse backgrounds.+ Provided daily qualitative and quantitative analysis and communicated findings to PTC’s Communications team for 400K social media followers' daily updates. +Co-managed an end-to-end consulting engagement with The Rockefeller Foundation.+ Identified opportunities for process improvements that successfully led to increased efficiency in training, work shifts, and internal communications.+ Organized and led a team in generating an insightful dashboard best practices report for the Biden transition team, completing it within a challenging 72-hour deadline.KEY WINS INCLUDED:+ Cited by 1K+ academic papers, including The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, and JAMAReferenced in 7K+ new stories from major publishers spanning The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Vox, ProPublica, among others+ Received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Sigma Awards, and the NYU Journalism Online Awards + John Hopkins’ and NY Times highly trafficked COVID-19 Testing Dashboards leveraged our testing data+ Data utilized by two presidential administrations as well as the CDC, HHS, and FDA Show less

  • Special Projects Lead

    Jan 2021 - Jul 2021

  • Data Entry Team Lead

    Oct 2020 - Apr 2021

  • Data 'Shift' Lead

    May 2020 - Oct 2020
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  The Pandemic Tracking Collective

  Sept 2021 - Nov 2023

  Operations Lead & Founding Member

  Recruited as a core member of a group of former leaders and critical players from The COVID Tracking Project. Collaborated with fellow leadership and managed a team of 10 to facilitate a successful and high-impact partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute (PPI). Enabled wholly new levels of data tracking and solutions that tracked new variants and breakthrough infections. We achieved our mission: to leverage data and science communication to equip PPI’s network of decision-makers with key insights to influence the narrative surrounding the global pandemic response. + Handle day-to-day operations, such as financial tracking, budgets, and reporting. + Serves as the primary liaison between the Rockefeller Foundation and the Pandemic Tracking Collective (PTC), ensuring effective communication and coordination.+ Forged strategic partnerships with 7 external organizations – yielded 2 completed joint projects and 3 collaborations under exploration.+ Supported development of the US Vaccine Breakthrough Reporting Scorecard – featured on CNN (Jake Tapper), ABCNews, among others.+ Briefed senior leaders for key meetings and provided advice on keynote speech and presentation for global World Health Organization (WHO) conference. Show less

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  The Rockefeller Foundation

  Sept 2021 - Mar 2023

  Advisor

  Advise the Rockefeller Foundation's initiative to deliver a pandemic-free future, with a strong focus on data collection, integration, analytics, and technical / scientific communications to combined epxert and lay audiences.

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  Ask a Chief of Staff

  Oct 2023 - now

  Active Member in Good Standing

  Part of a network of experienced professional across industries sharing knowledge and best practices to improve performance.

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  Social Venture Partners Denver

  Feb 2024 - now

  Theory of Change Coach
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  The Human Reach

  Feb 2024 - Sept 2024

  Director of Operations