John Wiley Boone

John Wiley Boone is a social revolutionary, obsessive writer, and amateur cosmologist.

John Wiley Boone has four years of research and relationship management responsibilities at various non- and for-profit institutions. A proven leader, articulate writer, career researcher, his personal mission statement is to fuel the nationwide education revolution by expanding school choice to high-risk areas and offering underrepresented families access to top quality education. Specialties: Education, teaching, finance, relationship management, compliance, due diligence, location analytics, demography, geospatial research.

Senior Research Analyst at Ipreo

April 2011 - August 2012

Relationship manager for a KKR capital markets intelligence hub, specializing in connecting asset managers on the buy-side with broker-dealer community and investor relations teams. Also served as member of the Washington Association of Money Managers.

Research Assistant & SAGE Intern at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

September 2010 - March 2011

Studied with Gavin Wright and Ronald Steel.

Writer/Reporter at The Lipman Capitol Times

October 2010 - February 2011

Beats: Asia, Europe, US State Department, US Economy Op-eds: "The Importance of Ahmadinejad's U.S. Visit" "The Reality of China's Future" "The Road through Istanbul: The Future of a Nuclear Iran"

Research Assistant & Teaching Fellow at University of Alabama at Birmingham

August 2009 - June 2010

Worked with mentor, Dr. Tennant McWilliams, Dean Emeritus (ret) on a book, as well as a research project on the analysis of Southern higher education from 1990-2010. Also helped teach two freshmen level survey classes in American History: Section 1 (to 1870) and Section 2 (since 1870).

Senior Tutor at University of Alabama at Birmingham

September 2008 - January 2010

Tutored student-athletes in History, Anthropology, Philosophy, Literature, English, Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Astronomy, African-American Studies. Raised all students' test scores and succeeded in keeping over 95% of them eligible to compete.

Volunteers and Community Resources Manager at Shelby Humane Society

2007 - 2008

Expanded the shelter's volunteer program from 10 people to a self-sustaining database of over 50. Increased awareness of the organization's mission and capabilities by speaking at local schools, setting up community adoption clinics, and manning off-site events. Recruited and trained volunteers in an attempt to replace paid staff and cut budget.

Business Development Analyst at Charter Schools USA

September 2012

Responsible for data-driven strategic direction for CSUSA in the education market. Duties include: creating and maintaining analytic models for new and existing markets, prioritizing high-growth/need education markets for investment recommendation, performing regression analyses to determine correlations between demographic/competition variables and high-performing schools within our network, project management for inception-stage school planning.

University of Alabama at Birmingham

2008 – 2010

MA

Birmingham-Southern College

2002 – 2006

BA

Concentration: History

Mountain climbing, mountain biking, mountain conquering, writing, reading, ranking, rating, living, breathing, dying.