Résumé

Asa Ekengren.

Orlando, Florida · aekengren@pm.me · LinkedIn

Experience

  1. October 2023 – Present

    Business Process & Automation Manager

    Tepa Companies · Orlando, FL

    I work with corporate functions and project teams to unlock efficiencies and improved ways of working. Focused on leveraging AI for prototyping and testing solutions supporting workflows and automation, and, ultimately, effectively communicating policies and procedures to internal staff.

    • Automated: vendor registrations, client payment notifications, subcontractor invoicing, and document approvals and publishing.
    • Implemented a new company intranet with wiki-style navigation, AI-driven search, conditional audiences, built-in direct feedback, and Git version control.
    • Consolidated standard corporate files from siloed systems into a central repository for all controlled company documents.
  2. January 2023 – October 202310 months

    Business Development Analyst

    Hatalom Corporation · Orlando, FL

    • Coordinated and led proposal efforts in response to multimillion-dollar government solicitations. Primary offerings included operations and maintenance support, simulation and training services, engineering, software development, and cybersecurity.
    • Led business development and proposal efforts for Hatalom’s winning bid for the GSA OASIS+ ID/IQ for logistics contracts.
    • Led the past performance volume on Hatalom’s winning bid for the single-award ID/IQ contract Computer Based Instructional Development (CBID) III, with a ceiling of $49.3M over five years.
    • Documented software solutions, simulation and game-based training services, and engineering, IT, and cybersecurity services for the defense industry.
  3. March 2022 – December 20229 months

    Technical Writer

    CLX Engineering · Sanford, FL

    • Responsible for knowledge management and for documenting CLX’s automated industrial electrical control systems, its proprietary SCADA suite, Cortex, and its computerized maintenance management system, Matrax.
    • Wrote, reviewed, and edited supporting project documentation, such as contracts, implementation plans, contingency plans, daily work plans, and progress reports.
    • Gathered information from engineers, schematic drawings, and directly from IT systems to create supporting technical documents, such as operation and maintenance manuals and test plans.
    • Developed and wrote corporate standard operating procedures, work instructions, templates, examples, and other company standards.
  4. October 2017 – April 20213.5 years

    Research Analyst

    Boston Consulting Group · Madrid, Spain

    • Research analyst on BCG’s Data & Research Services (DRS) team, affiliated with the Technology Advantage (TA) practice. Specialized in strategies on the use of data and technology to support CIOs and CDOs and optimize IT organizations for major corporations around the world.
    • Deep expertise using Gartner, IDC, Forrester, Comscore, SimilarWeb, Ovum, eMarketer, Mintel, Bloomberg, Thomson ONE, Capital IQ, Orbis BvD, Oxford Economics, public statistics, and local company registries.
    • One of three founding members of BCG’s DRS function in Madrid, and the first in Europe to support BCG’s TA practice area.
    • Selected as an ambassador from DRS Europe to visit, teach, and learn from colleagues in Bangalore, India, in December 2019.
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    Madrid → Abu Dhabi → Bangalore · December 2019
  5. October 2014 – September 20173 years

    Translator & Editor

    Boston Consulting Group · Madrid, Spain

    • Translated, reviewed, and edited presentations, communications, and publications on a broad range of topics and sectors, including technology, media, telecommunications, energy, and financial institutions.
  6. May 2013 – October 20174.5 years

    Freelance Translator & Editor

    Madrid, Spain

    • Translated and edited written content in academics (history and economics), business (company websites), and entertainment media (full pitch materials for a feature-length children’s film).
  7. September 2009 – May 20133.5 years

    English Teacher

    Various institutions · Madrid, Spain

    • Taught English as a second language to children ages 10–18 at a charter school, to managers and employees at some of Spain’s best-known companies, and to flight attendants in training.
  8. May 2008 – May 20091 year

    File Clerk

    Tangel Rodriguez & Associates Law Firm · Orlando, FL

    • Handled internal paperwork and delivered dockets to the Orange County Courthouse and the State Regional Service Center.

Education

  • 2012

    M.A., Contemporary History

    Universidad Complutense de Madrid · Madrid, Spain

  • 2010

    M.A., Bilingual & Multicultural Education

    Universidad de Alcalá de Henares · Alcalá de Henares, Spain

  • 2009

    B.A., History, Minor in Pre-Law

    University of Central Florida · Orlando, Florida

Public life & other merits

  • 2018 – Present

    Member of the International Jacques Ellul Society (IJES). ellul.org ↗

  • 2020

    The Spanish podcast La Nevera devoted a full episode (vol. 29) to my M.A. thesis, “El neo-ludismo en los movimientos ecologistas de acción directa en Estados Unidos (1970–2010).” Listen on iVoox ↗

  • 2016

    Guest speaker, “Ciència, tecnologia i medicina a les places: governabilitats, apoderaments i resistències,” Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona.

  • 2012 – 2014

    All-but-dissertation for a Ph.D. in History of Science, Medicine & Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

  • April 23–24, 2012

    Guest speaker, “Science Fiction Across Media: Alternative Histories, Alien Futures,” Umeå University, Sweden.

  • 2005 – 2006

    President of the Heavy Metal Enthusiasts Club at the University of Central Florida; raised membership by 200%, making it one of the university’s most active extracurricular communities.