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John Williams

Candidate for Master of Business Administration at Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College (2003), Summer Associate at The Washington Post, Business Development Analyst at Atlantic Media Company.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Skills: Languages, Law, Management
Groups: [INACTIVE]2010 Darden Business Plan Competition
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup
Schools: Carleton College, University of Virginia

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: G. Gordon Liddy Show
Position: Intern

Employer: National Baseball Hall of Fame
Position: Intern

Employer: USPIRG
Position: Intern

Employer: The Fojol Bros
Position: Director of Finance

Employer: The Urban Alliance
Position: Youth Baseball Coach and Tutor

Employer: Atlantic Media Company
Position: Business Development Analyst
Time period: January 2006 - December 2008
Description: Managed 15 developers and $4MM budget to redesign six websites; traffic doubled after launch.

Executed new products such as a State Affiliate Program; associated revenues were $1MM per year.

Negotiated content partnerships with PBS and MSNBC; monthly advertising revenues were $20K.

Co-produced an XM Radio show that reached 50K listeners weekly and generated $75K in revenue.

Conducted analysis to acquire a political stock exchange, an email news service and a speaker’s bureau.

Employer: Insight Research Group
Position: Innovation Associate
Time period: January 2004 - December 2005
Description: Generated $2.5MM in business by translating client’s needs into more than 30 successful proposals.

Conducted ethnographies, monitored quantitative fielding, and administered focus groups with consumers.

Employer: Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold LLP
Position: Paralegal
Time period: January 2003 - December 2004
Description: Supervised a team of 20 nurses and paralegals in the review of 1.5MM pages of medical records.

Produced case law abstracts, organized exhaustive chronologies, and conducted bibliographic searches.

Employer: The Washington Post
Position: Summer Associate
Time period: December 2009
Description: Analyzed billing and payment data to produce four policy revisions saving $2M.

Implemented a plan to enhance efficiency and reduce staffing needs by three FTEs.

Conducted internal and external interviews to create guidelines for improving client satisfaction.

Led intradepartmental review of advertising terms to streamline contract negotiations.

Employer: Atlantic Media Company
Position: Member Liaison
Time period: December 2006
Description: Created legislative positioning for 40 clients such as Microsoft and AT&T; 90% member renewal rate.

Hosted events with politicians and journalists and interviewed industry leaders on policy issues.

Designed marketing resources including renewal decks, member traffic reports, and newsletters.

EDUCATION

University: University of Virginia
Time period: 2010
Degree: MBA

University: Carleton College
Time period: 2003
Degree: BA

John's Startups (1)

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  • The fojol bros.

    The fojol bros. is a traveling culinary carnival serving tasty and affordable Indian food in downtown Washington, DC. Through a fusion of carnival and street food traditions, the fojols are attempting to fill a gap in the District’s lunch options.