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Adele Burnes

East Coaster happily making the Bay Area my home. I love entrepreneurship and helping others live their dreams. I'm an operations person.

Headline: Startup Member
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Industries: Information Technology, Internet
Skills: Business, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Languages, Leadership, Management, Public speaking, Spanish
Location: Oakland, CA
Groups: 2012 • Tufts Business Plan Competition, 2011-2012 McCloskey Business Plan Competition , 2012 Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition Application, 2012 UC Berkeley Startup Competition, BizTEC, DemoCompetition, Democratic challenge, Desafio Intel 2012, Desafío Intel® Argentina, Desafío Intel® Chile, Desafío Intel® Colombia, Desafío Intel® Costa Rica, Desafío Intel® Latin America General, Desafío Intel® Mexico, Desafío Intel® Peru, Desafío Intel® Uruguay, Duke Start-Up Challenge 2012, Dukestartupchallenge2012, Emprendedor-3004 2011, Entrepreneur Showcase Munich 2012, Entrepreneur Showcase San Francisco 2012, GIST Initiative , Idea Pitch Competition, Idea Pitch Competition, Intel Challenge EU, JHU Center for Leadership Education/Alpha Kappa Psi Elevator Pitch Competition, Johns Hopkins University Business Plan Competition, NCET's Donald W Reynolds Governor's Cup, Ramon Breakthrough, Start-Up Chile, TNW Best of the Accelerators Startup Rally, TNW Startup Rally Amsterdam, Towson Global Business Incubator, Tufts Business Plan Competition, UC Spirit of Enterprise Graduate Business Plan Competition, Utah Entrepreneur Challenge
Interested in: Brainstorming, Career advice, Finding mentors, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Providing services to startups, Recruiting
Schools: Boston University, Columbia University

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: YouNoodle
Position: Campaigns Manager
Time period: June 2011 - Present
Description: I not only help people use our competition platform, Podium, but I am a user myself. I use Podium along with our awesome network of mentors and judges to execute global competitions and build entrepreneurship ecosystems around the world. I like to help everyone plug into the entrepreneurial grid.

Employer: BETTERMEANS
Position: Core Team, Operations Director
Time period: August 2009 - April 2011
Description: Created and articulated a new open, democratic, decentralized form of organization. Assisted in the design of a website platform to execute a new model of management. Developed a comprehensive help site for web application, including copy and videos. Incorporated and coordinated legal and financial design of Bettermeans. Led the marketing of the web application, generating 20 article and blog posts. Responded to customer inquiries from community of 4,000 users.

Employer: EMC2
Position: Summer Intern Business Analyst, Business Technology Group
Time period: June 2009 - August 2009
Description: Assessed current practices in IT work-request tracking and proposed an improved process
that leveraged underutilized resources, resulting in BTG-wide adoption. Wrote use cases and analyzed resource-allocation data to shape improved processes in Resource Management and Demand Management IT Transformation teams.

Employer: MASSACHUSETTS TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATIVE
Position: Project Specialist, Broadband Initiative
Time period: January 2007 - December 2008
Description: Collected, analyzed, and mapped broadband availability data for Massachusetts. Developed a solution to the lack of broadband in western Massachusetts and briefed high government officials; the resulting legislation established a $40 million Broadband Incentive Fund managed by the MTC. Drafted a business plan, including budget, personnel, and investment strategy, for the newly formed Massachusetts Broadband Institute, which invests the $40 million fund.

Employer: NEXT LEVEL ENGLISH CONVERSATION INSTITUTE
Position: English Teacher
Time period: June 2005 - June 2006
Description: Designed and standardized six-month curricula integrating grammar and conversation. Obtained teaching contracts, which doubled the number of students at the Institute.

Employer: TRACS INC.
Position: Office Manager
Time period: September 2003 - June 2005
Description: Managed a team of 8–12 interns to aggressively implement a three-month marketing push
for the Millrose Games that resulted in a 100% increase in ticket sales. Conducted an analysis of the business and proposed measures that increased efficiency and maximized profit; strategy in place today with increased profit.

EDUCATION

University: Boston University
Time period: 2010
Degree: MS-MBA

University: Columbia University
Time period: 2003
Degree: Archeology, BA

INFORMATION

Hobbies: Photography, competitive ocean sailing, yoga, biking, and dancing

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  • Rade Glomazic

    Currently a Doctoral candidate in Political science at the European Center for Peace and Development of the UN University of Peace. Have over ten years of professional experience working in socio-economic development activities and int. cooperation

  • Yaniv Reginiano

    BizTEC's webmaster. M.Sc industrial engineering and management student at Tel Aviv University. Working for a search engine technologies start-up company. TA of Information System courses. Experienced with web-mastering.