Melisa Prevost
Studied at Haas School of Business (Berkeley)
Works at Stratus Admissions Counseling
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About Melisa
Over the past 10 years at Stratus Admissions, I have worked with 300+ MBA hopefuls across 100+ applications helping my clients secure over $20M in scholarships. Before working with Stratus, I was an alumni interviewer for Haas for close to a decade. I enjoy working with people from all industries and backgrounds to help them identify what will help them stand out in a competitive process. Before life as an admissions counselor, I worked in consulting, operations/logistics, education and non-profit. I have lived all over the US with biggest stints of time in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Philadelphia with a couple years in both London and Gibraltar.
Why do I coach?
I coach because I love working with and helping people. When I was an alumni interviewer, I would often want to hop on the other side of the table to help craft their best story. I like to spend time to really get to know my clients, help them identify strengths that might be so inherent to them they don't rise to the top and support them in translating those stories to admissions committees.
Work Experience
Internship Coordinator
Mamaroneck Union Free School District
September 2024 - Present
MHS seniors spend their last 4 weeks of school interning at a local business or community organization. I work with students to find their internship, communicate with supervisors and manage the overall program.
Operations Team Lead, New York, New York
Success Academy Charter Schools
February 2019 - February 2020
- Developed And manage budget for all Experiential Learning Programs (Field Studies, After School Programming, Non-academic electives) - Improved processes for strategic growth - Workflow management and project planning across Experiential Learning
Senior Admissions Counselor
Stratus Admissions Counseling
June 2016 - Present
• Mentor applicants from around world through personal and professional introspection to help develop personal brand strategy for applications to top global MBA programs. Support applicants through identifying best programs for their personal goals, project managing their application process and conducting mock interviews. • Present webinars on topics such as application strategies, program identification and interviewing for success
Library Services Specialist
Loreto Convent School, Delhi Cantt
January 2014 - July 2015
- Implemented electronic library system to manage all library resources - Managed 10 library volunteers who worked directly with students - Integrated a 100% increase in resources to the library
Director of Strategy
The Home Depot
October 2007 - April 2009
- Led cross-functional team to identify and implement revenue driving and expense reduction initiatives to improve specialty store performance. Benchmarked big box specialty stores for viability in HD portfolio. - Reduced out of stocks by 15% and inventory by 10%, increasing overall profit margin through implemented process improvements. - Led extensive multi-functional evaluation of big box specialty businesses which resulted in closing down all big box specialty formats. Completed close down of 41 retail locations within 5 month schedule.
Specialty Regional Sales Manager
The Home Depot
February 2005 - October 2007
- Managed $200M design and remodeling business operations. Developed strategic planning process to identify and prioritize growth opportunities within EXPO Design Center division. - Pioneered restructure of organizational structure, compensation and incentive structure and hiring and training process for a 500+ design professionals to improve sales by 10% over subsequent year. - Devised incentive programs that increased sales by 10% for various product categories.
Sr. Mgr Executive Recruiting
The Home Depot
July 2003 - February 2005
- Managed team of 6 analysts to develop and implemented sales programs to grow kitchen, appliance and flooring businesses across 2000 retail locations. - Led implementation of first nationwide sales measurement process and IT solution in Home Depot’s 25 year history, impacting more than 20,000 employees. - Managed sales operations for successful new store concept, the Home Depot Showroom, implemented in 1500+ stores.
Education
Haas School of Business (Berkeley)
MBA
2001 - 2003
Alumni Admissions Interviewer: 2003 - 2015 Activities and societies: VP Alumni Relations, Student Government - 2002-2003 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for BA 101, 2002-2003 Young Entrepreneurs at Haas Mentor, 2001-2003 Social Venture Competition - 2001 Service Award - 2003 Peer elected speaker for graduation ceremony - 2003
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BS, Engineering
1991 - 1996
Activities and societies: Teaching Assistant for Freshmen Introduction to Engineering 1995-96 - Lab technician for a thermocouple project in the Mechanical Engineering Department 1995-1996 - Kappa Kappa Gamma, President 1994
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