Kristyn completed relevant coursework in business consulting, design thinking, database management, enterprise resource planning, management information systems, strategy, entrepreneurship, and systems analysis and design at Rochester Institute of Technology. Some highlights include working with a medical device startup on their value proposition and marketing opportunities, developing a feasible product through an iterative design process, learning SAP across functional areas, and designing information systems through various modeling techniques.

1. Relevant Coursework from Rochester Institute of Technology:
Field Experience in Business Consulting:
Kristyn worked with a medical device startup company to determine its value
proposition, distribution channels, and marketing opportunities through a combination of
primary and secondary research methods.
Design Thinking and Concept Development:
Project based course where students utilize a wide range of design tools and an
iterative process to develop a feasible, viable and desirable product or service.
Seminar in MIS:
Business Intelligence course with a focus on data warehousing, visualization, statistical
modeling, and analytical skills.
Database Management Systems & Database Systems Development:
Project based courses where students are given hands-on experience designing and
implementing a database from performing an analysis of the requirements to developing
the design and implement a prototype system in Microsoft Access and Oracle.
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems:
SAP hands on course where students used various models of SAP R/3 across all
functional areas to learn about efficiencies that are realized by integrating information
systems across the enterprise.
Management Information Systems Capstone:
IT Project management and problem solving course where students developed an IT
solution and applied techniques for estimating, planning and controlling resources to
accomplish an IT project challenge.
Strategy and Innovation:
Personal Development based course where students learn to analyze, understand and
manage the world around them to implement strategies that lead to success for
themselves and their enterprises.
Business 1-2 Sequence:
Team based course where student teams develop entrepreneurial concepts including a
business plan. Teams then present their idea to investors.
Systems Analysis and Design:
Project based course where students learn the steps required to design an information
system from conducting interviews to developing use case models, data models,
process models, a database schema and several user interface prototypes.