Hi, I'm Allen Groue
And I am a dedicated business leader offering a wide range of research, writing, and marketing needs. I’m ready to bring my talents to your team.
In 2014, I received the Department of Defense’s Boren Fellowship, which sponsored me to spend a year in Indonesia conducting academic research into credit card security and studying Bahasa Indonesia. Following this experience, I continued in government as a contractor with Booz Allen Hamilton working on defense projects with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, National Language Service Corps, Global Threat Mitigation Program, and Air Force Culture and Language Center.
Prior to my time in government, I lived the life of a globetrotting academic, earning degrees in economics, international relations, and business. This journey took me everywhere from Arkansas to Australia.
I am now back in Denver, Colorado, and available for local and remote work.
I enjoy Chinese food, punk rock, and the Houston Astros.
PROFICIENCIES
One thing I have loved about my career is that my wide range of working experiences have given me the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills accross multiple disciplines. I'm a voracious learner who is always looking for a new talent to master.
U.S.-BASED EMPLOYMENT
Who I've worked for
Day in and day out, I’m constantly taking on new and interesting projects that help me build my personal brand. From industry-related tasks to unusual and sporadic opportunities, each experience I’ve had has turned me into who I am today. Have a look at everything I’ve done, and send any questions my way.
BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON
Senior Consultant and Associate
April 2018 - October 2022
During my time at Booz Allen Hamilton, I worked on a variety of roles as a project manager, recruiter, writer, financial analyst, intelligence analyst. Clients I worked with included the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the National Language Service Corps, Air Force Culture and Language Center, and the Global Threat Mitigation Program.
INTEGRATED TRAINING SOLUTIONS
Project Analyst/HR Representative
August 2016-April 2018
While at ITS, I worked as a Member/Mission Support Liaison while working on the National Language Service Corps. This role entailed a combination of project management, customer service, digital marketing, social media management, event planning, and editing.
COURAGE SERVICES
Social Media Analyst
February 2017 - November 2017
For much of 2017 I contracted with Courage Services, a corporate intelligence firm in Arlington, Virginia. I worked with them as an analyst monitoring Indonesian social media for a Fortune 500 company.
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Where I've Worked
There's little I enjoy more than interacting with other cultures, which is something I regularly experienced starting my career in the Asia-Pacific region. While there, I led academic and professional research projects, provided consulting services for businesses and NGOs, and developed working skills in the Indonesian and Chinese languages. I am also lucky to have traveled extensively through the region, everywhere from Irkutsk to Canberra, in search of the area's finest cultural and natural sites.
INDONESIA
Managed, wrote, and edited, marketing strategy proposal for a mobile browser whose implementation led to short-term market retention
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Wrote an academic paper assessing technical credit card security and risk in Indonesia and presented my findings in Indonesian and English
FIJI
Led project to research capital cycles of microentrepreneurs operating in 20 sectors and conducted 76 interviews with rural entrepreneurs around Fiji
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Partnered with two local NGOs to instruct over 30 entrepreneurs on business skills, goal setting, and project management
CHINA
Advised 20 gifted high school students on writing college application essays and mentored them in their selection of U.S. colleges.
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Developed and taught curricula on SAT preparation classes and English for business settings
EDUCATION
Data Science 5000
General Assembly
2018
In 2018, I participated this 12-week data science bootcamp that General Assembly offered specifically for Booz Allen Hamilton employees. In the program I learned data science fundamentals and learned to use Python, Github, and Anaconda. My final project was building a random forest model for predicting casualties for specific types of terrorist attacks across Southeast Asia.
Master of Arts
University of Denver
2011 - 2015
I earned my M.A. in Global Finance, Trade, and Economic Integration with concentrations in Southeast Asian Affairs, Forecasting, and International Development. My coursework included research projects in building econometric trade models, international financial crises, gender and the impact on the development of fishing communities in Java, forecasting the development of Indonesia, country risk analysis, and petroleum production in the South China Sea. I also served as the graduate school's student body president while there.
International MBA
University of Denver
I also completed an MBA while at DU.
2012 - 2014
Bachelor of Arts
Hendrix College
2006 - 2010
While at Hendrix, I double majored in Economics and in International Relations and Global Studies, graduating with distinction in economics. I participated in the Hendrix-in-China exchange program, spending a semester at Heilongjiang University in Harbin where I engaged in an extensive study of Mandarin Chinese. My comprehensive paper was about contemporary Thai Buddhist theology and its relationship to human rights. While there, I was active in the radio station, Multicultural Development Committee, the Young Democrats and played the role of Belarius in our production of Cymbeline.
Technologies
Every contemporary professional needs a wide range of proficiencies across hardware and software. Like any other career-minded individual, I am constantly learning and adapting to new technologies as they enter professional use.
Basics
MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, Teams), iWork (Pages, Keynote, Numbers)
Collaboration
Zoom, Google Meet, MS Teams, SharePoint, WebEx, DropBox, Google Docs
Marketing
MS Dynamics CRM, Mailchimp
Design
Adobe Lightroom, Canva, Wix
Statistics and Data Science
SAS, Stata, Python
Social Media
Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter,
Certifications
Projet Management Institute's
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Scrum Alliance's
Certified Scrum Master
Foreign Languages
Bahasa Indonesia (professional)
Spanish (intermediate)
Mandarin Chinese (novice)