Lara Nakamura

I am currently a fourth year at the University of Southern California (exp Dec 2023) studying Business Administration with a minor in Cybersecurity.

As an avid learner, I am passionate about exploring opportunities at the intersection of business and technology and am constantly striving to further develop my skills and growth mindset to achieve positive outcomes.

I am a people-oriented person with personal interests in food, professional sports, and travel. I am also endlessly curious about a variety of industries from furthering my skills and knowledge in Business to and my secondary studies to new areas for me including personal finance and real estate investment.

IDEMIA North America

Role: Junior Business Analyst

August 2022 - Current

• Manage and coordinate construction and distribution of weekly services dashboard to improve monthly performance data tracking and communication

Role: Business Operations and Leadership Intern

May 2022 - August 2022

• Researched and mapped procedures of internal monthly sales forecasts to improve discrepancies in reporting accuracy and established a proposal for process improvement and efficiency of DMV and state contract fulfillment and biometric technology services for IDEMIA North America
• Constructed and implemented a dashboard populated with regional sales and factory volumes for streamlining future data retrieval and improving resource accessibility
• Developed a case study outlining a successful product use case to promote market offering to other potential customer jurisdictions and communicate value proposition

Allied Global Marketing

Role: Marketing Intern 

February 2022 - May 2022

• Collaborated with marketing executives to generate and conceptualize marketing strategies for Allied’s major entertainment and lifestyle brand clients
• Brainstormed potential marketing campaign elements for interactive and live experiences to promote upcoming box office films to target markets

The University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business Los Angeles, CA

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Minor in Cybersecurity

Expected Dec. 2023

Relevant Coursework: Business Finance, Business Statistics, Programming in Python

GPA: 3.43