LEVI PALMER

All jokes aside, Levi has done some things. Those things include, in no particular order: 

• Planned go-to-market and growth strategies for a product partnership between DoorDash & Facebook Marketplace

• Managed a team of 40+ developers building out an API led architecture for a Fortune 500 company

• Designed both customer and employee-facing platforms, from front end UI to back end infrastructure

• Transformed and validated millions of records of HR data

• Written dozens of Product Requirements Documents, Technical Specifications, Training Guides, etc. 

• Configured, extended, or integrated with SAP, Salesforce, Mulesoft, Coupa, SuccessFactors, Jira, and Microsoft Dynamics 

• Scraped data with Python and sorted it with SQL

• Worked with clients in the airline, banking, waste management, government, restaurant, non-profit and packaging industries

While Levi needs to charge his Airpods everyday because he has a soundtrack for each daily activity, his real musical interest is in live performance. Levi is thankful to have had the opportunity to: 

• Cover way too many Katy Perry songs on bass in the Columbia Business School band, Juranimal

• Brush up on jazz standards in the New York Jazz Academy

• Practice complex rhythms in the Ohio State University's Latin Jazz Ensemble 

• Lead his own jazz quintet during college

• Bring up the tempo and energy on classic rock hits in a Back to the 80's musical pit band

• Write post-hardcore/metalcore mosh pit fuel on a drop-tuned 7-string guitar in Your Dying Breath while in high school 

In addition to playing guitar and bass, Levi spends a lot of time thinking about how to make playing jazz guitar easier. In a quarantine-fueled daze, he organized all of his thoughts into the PDF, Jazz Guitar Drop 2 Voicings and Scale Shapes, which you can find on this site. 

Over a series of 50+ newsletters, Levi wrote on topics from the lack of free will to children's television. There is a plan to bring The Palmer Press back to life both as a biweekly series and as a full-fledged site with a repository of past writing, but it is on the back-burner until Levi finishes his MBA and re-integrates into the real world. Check out the slightly-out-of-date site and subscribe so you can be one of the first to know when the writing restarts! 

Fortunately, writing didn't come to a complete stop during the MBA. In addition to trying too hard on essays, Levi updated several of the cases for Columbia's Core Strategy course, as well as authored a brand new case on stakeholder management through the lens of the Amazon HQ2 expansion.