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MONICA HART 678.612.7251
[email protected] Open to Relocation to Dallas, TX or Atlanta, GA
VP Research Competitive Intelligence specializing in: library science, market analysis; public relations; competitive intelligence; social media; branding; publicity; marketing; secondary and primary research; knowledge management; strategic planning; syndicated research vendor management; ROI Studies; contract negotiations.
Founder | VP Research Competitive Intelligence Leadership for Research Competitive Intelligence | Greater Los Angeles Area 2013-Present • Attending Networking Events • Researching Industry Leaders • Tracking Industry Trends • Participating in Industry Discussions
Houlihan Lokey, Howard & Zukin Investment Bank, Los Angeles, CA 9/08-01/13 Global Senior Research Analyst Instrumental in expanding the Information Center’s hours to support our East Coast and overseas offices. Resulted in better access of information during business hours in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, London, Paris, and India offices. Regular contributor to client and pitch projects by conducting research and analysis on relevant themes, companies, and mutual funds. Develop and synthesize materials for analysts and Managing Directors to take to clients that resulted in winning several large accounts for the company. Conduct information research using professional information sources/databases in the areas of Business, Finance, Industrial Goods, Prospect/Donor Research, Automotive, Pharmaceuticals and Energy just to name a few.
Imanu Group, Los Angeles, CA 01/07-Present Boutique PR, Social Media Branding firm that represents Music Artists, Athletes, Non-Profits and Authors by creating and implementing PR and Social Media campaigns. Identify opportunities and key markets to expand online presence and market share. Developing innovative strategies for Social Media campaigns and engagement on Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and other media. Build brand loyalty and implement strategies to increase followers and search relevance by using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google+ and Blogs. Securing speaking and interview opportunities for clients.
Georgia Power Company, Atlanta, GA 9/04-7/08 Records & Information Analyst. Coordinated all research flowing through the center as the lead researcher. This included conducting both secondary and primary research and synthesizing the results. Projects varied from confidential background research on board members, prospect/donor research, patent, competitive intelligence research, identifying subject matter experts, copyright and all energy related research including Oil and Gas. Created and implemented the Business Information Center Marketing Plan which resulted in a 100% increase in the use of the center’s resources and walk -in customer use within 2 months. Copyright Compliance Officer for Georgia Power. Spearheaded the copyright compliance portal on the Information Center intranet page. Contributed to the production of the Copyright Compliance video and training seminar. Attended yearly in New York, Practicing Law Institute Copyright Seminar. EMS Technologies, Norcross, GA 11/03-8/04 Engineering Library Manager Firm wide Director of Library Services for the Wireless, Broadband and Aerospace Divisions of EMS. Managed four employees with an annual $100,000 operations budget. Completely overhauled the Information Center hours, service offerings and retrained the staff which resulted in an increase of information requests from 20 a month to 1,200 a month over a 4 month period. Re-negotiated existing vendor contracts and identified incremental providers. Optimized physical layout to reflect reorganization of resources to better serve end users and internal clients. This resulted in a $5,000 reduction in monthly operating costs. Merial Limited Pharmaceutical, Duluth, GA 4/01-11/03 Global Director of Library Services Global Library Director with branches in Duluth, GA, North Brunswick, NJ and Lyon, France. Supervised a staff of 7 with an annual operating budget of $500,000. Created global information portal to include databases, publications and resources that increased employee efficiency and productivity through better awareness and accessibility to external information assets. Designed client bill-back system that captured and reallocated data and other overhead costs. Designed innovative yearly accomplishments presentation for Senior Management that linked the Information Centers accomplishments to the company wide yearly goals. Resulted in management using the formula and concept for all departments in the company. PSI, Atlanta, GA 1999-2001 Director of Library Services Director of Library Services for the Atlanta, GA and Chattanooga, TN campus and managed a staff of 5 employees. Designed and executed the 5-year strategic plan which included budget projections, collection development policy, prospect/donor research and introduced new technology and computer databases to the faculty, internal and end users. Devised processes that streamlined assessments and maximized library operations. This resulted in an 80% increase of library use on both campuses and achieved SACS Accreditation on the first evaluation of the library by the governing board.
TECHNICAL SKILLS Dialog, Research Point, LexisNexis, Slideshare, Pinterest, Buddy Media, Wikis, Cision, AllTop, WildFire, Tumblr, DataQuick, BoardEx, Edgar, WestLaw, Factiva, Cap IQ, Salesforce.com Research Point, Raiser’s Edge, WordPress, Radian6, Hubspot, Factiva, Gartner, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) SAS and SharePoint
EDUCATION Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA Masters in Library Science Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH Masters in Education Notre Dame College, Cleveland, OH BA in Communication Arts