dylan tatz resume 10/2010
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DYLAN TATZ 2048 Pine St. Philadelphia, PA 19103
718-310-0569 | [email protected]
EDUCATION
THE WHARTON SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
MBA Candidate; Major in Statistics; GMAT 780
Philadelphia, PA
2009-2011
• Admissions Fellow (reviewing applications, conducting interviews)
• Senior Consultant, Small Business Development Center (working with two clients in the Food/Beverage Industry)
• Saxophonist/Clarinetist, Follies Band
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
AB in Religion, Certificate in Judaic Studies
Princeton, NJ
2002-2006
• Founder and chairman of The Princeton Committee on Prejudice (PCOP) Organized Black-Jewish Relations Week, consisting of five events attended by over 500 students, with 23 co-sponsors Created Shades of Princeton, an anonymous online forum for reporting and discussing incidents of prejudice on campus
• First Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Journey Award Awarded for contributions to the improvement of civil rights and/or human rights on campus
• Classical Director, WPRB Princeton, 103.3 FM Managed 12-announcer schedule; negotiated with record labels; hosted weekly show called Tatz Entertainment
EXPERIENCE
MCKINSEY & COMPANY
Summer Associate
Philadelphia, PA
2010
• Responsible for designing and conducting large-scale data segmentation and analysis to identify improvement trends; presentation to client resulted in reallocation of 16% of operating budget toward improving segments
• Identified areas for outside contracting help, developed work content and composed three RFPs comprising 9% of budget
• Helped design change management program for 9,000-employee organization to embrace new priorities and expectations; responsible for conducting stakeholder analysis and implementing management communications with feedback mechanisms
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE (AJC)
Assistant Director of Strategic Planning
Executive Assistant for Strategic Planning Prospect Research Analyst
New York, NY
2008-2009
2007-2008 2006-2007
• Managed and helped design strategic planning process consisting of 17 task forces with over 200 Board members and staff, resulting in new organization-wide strategies in program evaluation, governance, fundraising and leadership development
• Designed allocation process for $52MM annual operating budget and managed cost savings of over $12MM with CFO
• Researched and implemented new regional governance/communication structure for 31 U.S. chapters to consolidate mission and message across the organization; devised other strategies for optimizing operations, adapting industry best practices
• Facilitated stakeholder feedback process for strategic plan, conducting over 100 interviews with Board members and staff, integrating their feedback into the strategic plan through careful compromise and negotiation
• Presented final strategic plan conclusions and global implementation plan to Executive Committee and Board of Directors
FORUM FOR DIALOGUE AMONG NATIONS
Summer Fellow
Warsaw, Poland
2005
• Designed and implemented Different Voices from the Past, a tolerance education project for 8-10 year-old students, in collaboration with Polish teachers and government officials; curriculum now used in over 70% of Warsaw classrooms
• Promoted the Forum to American donors; wrote foundation grant proposals resulting in additional funding of over $7MM
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
• Sole American participant in the 2006 Lee Shiu Summer Program, an eight-week educational seminar examining political and economic similarities between China, Hong Kong and Singapore; gave speech on The Role of the Media in Economic
Development at Chinese Foreign Ministry concluding plenary in Beijing
• Co-founded Congregation Machane Chodosh Hebrew School to reinvigorate an elderly synagogue congregation of mostly Holocaust survivors and provide a free Jewish education to Russian Jewish immigrants. 2009-2010 enrollment is 472 students, with 26 teachers and 8 levels of classes. 100% of revenue supports programming
• Founder and saxophonist/composer for D5, a professional jazz band; freelance professional clarinetist in New York mostly in opera pit orchestras; awarded U.S. patent for original arrangement of Beethoven violin concerto for clarinet and orchestra
• Excavated in the field at the Neanderthal archaeological site of Les Pradelles in southern France, summer 2004