Meet the Graduates

I am the go-to person for Enterprise Marketing Management product offerings, specifically the Unica (NASDAQ: UNCA) Marketing Automation Platform, at SmartBase Solutions. I make sure new customers are set up for success by managing software implementations from initial discovery sessions and software design, to final deployment and user adoption. I give product demonstrations and presentations, ensure business requirements are met with each implementation project, and provide end-user training.

I just finished my first year of my Masters Degree program in Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I expect to graduate in December 2011. In addition to my current position, I am a Research Assistant at the University of Illinois.

Conducting research alongside Dr. Wallace E. Tyner. Current research concerns corn stover supply cost estimation using real-world data from a pilot harvest operation in Cedar Rapids, IA. The second phase of the project will utilize Purdue’s PC-LP linear programming model to create a supply curve for corn stover, estimating the quantity of stover supplied by farmers at various price levels.

I spend most of my time buried in cumbersome equations that slowly become more cumbersome with each progressive step. Outside of homework, I spend some time in the Center for Neuroeconomics, where we study the physiological and cognitive properties of economics.