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TRACEY SOMERS
QUALIFICATIONS
SUMMARY
Experienced Senior Project Manager in the Market Research Industry with a
proven 12-year track record of managing complex large scale, multi-country
consumer and business Quantitative custom research projects for companies
including IBM, HP and Microsoft as well as many in Financial Services.
Strong skills inclient management, project management, data management,
offline and online data collection, and client interface.
SKILLS Expert in SPSS and Office Products – Word, Excel, Power Pivot, Power Point,
O365 (including OneNote and SharePoint).
EXPERIENCE TNS, SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
June 2004 – Present
 Managed a $3.8 million, 22-country IT Professional tracking program in 2016.
 Responsible for traveling to both domestic and international vendors to brief projects
to ensure top quality research.
 Work closely with clients and Research Team to define business objectives.
 Responsible for meeting with clients for in-person project kick-off meetings and debrief
meetings.
 Responsible for driving the weekly status update meeting with the client. This included
establishing the Agenda, being the main driver of the discussions, and tracking of follow
up discussionpoints.
 Oversee the overall day-to-day project team and team management, including
managing complex sample designs (including the procuring and blending of both
online and offline sample), questionnaire design, US and International fieldwork,
questionnaire testing and translations, all aspects of data processing, reporting as well
and coordinating with internal team members (including team members across the US
and India).
 Examine the data while in field to find anomalies and work with the vendors to resolve
them.
 Communicates with internal team regularly regarding project budgets throughout the
duration of a project and engages project team members to ensure all information is
accurate and up-to-date as well as helping to resolve financial gaps.
 Develops documentation to maximize efficiency and quality for various clients.
 Implemented usage of SharePoint for document collaboration and scheduling.
 Responsible for automation of many client reports through Excel.
 Created budget monitoring template for the Project Management Organization.

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THE RESPONSE CENTER
May 1996 – June 2004
 Responsibilities covered all of the day-to-day activities that constitute a total research
project. This includes questionnaire design and formatting, monitoring field status,
scheduling resources, preparation and quality check for deliverables, overseeing report
design/preparation, and ensuring proper execution of the survey.
AWARDS Part of TNS team selected as 2006 Top Vendor of the Year award by Microsoft.
Part of TNS team selected as TNS 2006 Global Winner for Client Orientation.
Recipient of the 2011 TNS Guiding Principles Results Award.
EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA – PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING RESEARCH
 Certificate Program - The Principles of Market Research is a
comprehensive, rigorous, self-study online training program that
teaches the fundamental skills needed to conduct robust and insightful
market research. The certificate course is based on the Market
Research Core Body of Knowledge (MRCBOK©), an integrated set of
learning objectives and covering the market research process from
beginning to end.
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST