Ali Nasser
Incoming Associate Consultant Intern
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Healthcare & life sciences, pricing & commercial strategy
Experience
Incoming Associate Consultant Intern - Simon-Kucher - Chicago, IL
(2027-06)
Healthcare & life sciences, pricing & commercial strategy
Operations Strategy Intern - Life Science Professionals - Chicago, IL
(2026-06)
- Lead strategy and business development (BD) operations across nine workstreams for a boutique life sciences consulting firm
- Develop client relationship management (CRM) architecture in Excel with 8 workflows, driving 2 engagements and 15 prospects
- Build 8-variable, weighted BD prioritization tiering model for 547 Midwest biotech companies using Python and Excel
- Design cGMP and CAPA training curricula delivered to pharma clients, plus firm slide master standardizing deck production
Project Manager - Illinois Business Consulting - Champaign, IL
(2026-08)
- Lead a semester-long client engagement for a team of 10 students, driving scope, workstreams, and final deliverables
Senior Consultant - Illinois Business Consulting - Champaign, IL
(2026-01 - 2026-06)
- Advised a $13B commercial vehicle manufacturer on implementing procure-to-pay governance and prioritization transformation
- Built a 3-tiered initiative prioritization scoring framework across three departments, increasing cross-functional alignment
- Delivered a Power BI dashboard synthesizing 100k+ data points to communicate initiative prioritization to stakeholders
Consultant - Illinois Business Consulting - Champaign, IL
(2025-09 - 2026-01)
- Advised a $40B chemical manufacturer on globally implementing a new technology for engineering, training, and productivity
- Developed a 5-year trend snapshot of opportunities, challenges, and trajectory of the technology in an industrial context
- Identified and initiated mid-engagement scope expansion following the launch of a highly viable emerging technology
Undergraduate Researcher - Zhao Group — Institute for Genomic Biology - Champaign, IL
(2025-11)
- Develop system architecture for modular end-to-end machine learning (ML) workflows for agentic synthetic biology applications
- Fine-tune pretrained protein ML models on large custom sequence databases, improving predictive performance by 8%
- Assist automation team in the implementation of ML workflows in both small and large-scale manufacturing contexts
Systems Engineering Intern - Asahi Kasei Bioprocess - Glenview, IL
(2025-06 - 2025-08)
- Designed and prototyped a scaled virus filtration system for bioprocessing, ultimately reducing its manufacturing cost by 27%
- Drafted P&IDs, general arrangement (GA) drawings, and electrical schematics utilizing AutoCAD for engineering design
- Applied CQV (commissioning, qualification, and validation) principles in IQs, OQs, and FATs within an ISO 9001 framework
- Validated automation systems and authored technical documentation for factory-scale virus filtration and oligosynthesis skids
Lead Instructor - Mathnasium - Granger, IN
(2023-02 - 2024-08)
- Led an exam preparation redesign project, reducing procedure length by 40% and shrinking student educational backlogs
Education
B.S. - Chemical Engineering - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) (2028-05)
