About
Hi, I'm Clark Hayashi.
I'm a Business Analytics and Marketing graduate from Seattle University with a minor in Japanese, originally from Hawai‘i. My background blends analytics, marketing, AI, operations, global study, sports leadership, visual communication, and service. Most of it comes down to the same move: taking something messy (a dataset, a process, a pile of competing ideas) and turning it into something a team can act on.
At Bank of Hawaii, as one of the bank's first AI interns, that meant interviewing people across the organization about where AI could actually help, then building the scoring framework and Power BI dashboard leadership used to prioritize the opportunities. The rest of the record is below. One note from four years of refereeing flag football: it teaches you more about making fast calls with incomplete information than most classrooms do.
What I Bring
Analytics + Data
I structure messy data into dashboards, reports, and recommendations a team can act on. Core tools: Excel, Tableau, Python; currently deepening SQL.
Marketing + SEO
Hands-on measurement work: GA4, Google Tag Manager, Search Console, UTM strategy, local SEO, and content performance. Currently applied to real estate lead tracking.
AI + Workflow Strategy
Enterprise AI use-case prioritization, scoring frameworks, and dashboards that translate AI ideas into business value people can actually evaluate.
Leadership + Operations
Proven across organizations, from Scouts BSA to UREC to SUCUI: I've run programs, trained 40+ officials, and built the schedules, reporting, and playbooks that help people execute better.
Visual Communication
I turn complex work into clear artifacts: dashboards, decks, short-form video, and case studies people actually understand. Tools: Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro. This site included.
Experience Snapshot
The full picture. The resume is the one-page version.
AI Intern
Summer 2025
Gathered 50+ AI use cases through conversations with 19+ employees and AI Ambassadors; built the Excel repository, scoring framework, and Power BI dashboard used to prioritize them. Presented to 60+ employees and senior leaders.
Read the LinkedIn post →
Co-founder & COO
2024 to present
Student-led credit union initiative: operations, reporting, and coordination across teams; financial literacy programming; grew membership from 23 to 54 students. Won the $20K Harriet Stephenson Business Plan Competition and the eBay Best Marketplace Idea Prize at UW's 2025 Dempsey Startup Competition (competing as Seattle Financial Initiative), a 174-team regional field. Now advising the team post-graduation.
SUCUI on LinkedIn → Dempsey recap →
Intramural Sports Official → Manager
2022 to 2026
Four years in the program: started as a student official in fall 2022, promoted to Intramural Sports Manager senior year. Trained and mentored 40+ officials supporting 64+ teams and 469+ participants, ran operations, scheduling, and conflict resolution, and produced digital media with 3× the engagement of standard department posts.
Analyst
2023 to 2026
Student analytics club: analyzing real-world datasets in Tableau with statistical and predictive modeling, plus workshops, case competitions, and industry speakers. Fall 2023 case study: co-built an interactive Tableau dashboard on Seattle building permit data with a team of analysts, then presented trends in construction activity and permitting.
View the Tableau dashboard → Club announcement →
BBA, Business Analytics & Marketing
2022 to 2026
Minor in Japanese. Magna Cum Laude, GPA 3.71. Achievement Scholarship and Senator Daniel K. Akaka Scholarship recipient; Dean's List and President's List.
Background · sports, culture & first jobs (7 more) ↓ Background ↑
NCAA D1 Women's Basketball Practice Player
2023 to 2025
Scout-team role for the varsity program: learned opposing teams' schemes each week, then scrimmaged against the squad in practice so they could prepare for specific matchups.
Member
2022 to 2026
One of SU's largest cultural clubs. Helped organize the annual Lū‘au, celebrating Hawaiian culture in front of an audience of 300+.
Study Abroad
Spring & Summer 2024
Coursework spanning Japanese language, Anthropology of Japan, management, and the Philosophy of AI. Outside class: the APES basketball circle, the Japanese Language Club, and Peer Cafe. The foundation of an ongoing Japan connection.
Italy Study Tour
2025
An Albers course spanning spring quarter and summer, capped by a 10-day immersion in Sansepolcro and Tuscany studying leadership, marketing, and global business: family wineries, Nestlé's Perugina chocolate operation, the B Corp-certified textile firm Busatti, and leadership lessons from St. Francis of Assisi to the Florentine republic in Arezzo.
See the program recap →
Sales Associate
2020 to 2021
First job, back home during the pandemic: sales, customer service, and cash handling in service of military members and their families.
High School · Class of 2022
2018 to 2022
Varsity basketball co-captain, voted the team's Most Inspirational Player; also varsity golf and cross country. JROTC cadet, earning the Mayor's Award of Recognition. Worked the annual Carnival every February for a class that raised $337K for financial aid.
Eagle Scout
2020 to 2022
Senior Patrol Leader for 40+ scouts ages 10 to 17; mentored 10 youth leaders; led a 199-hour library transformation as my Eagle project. After earning Eagle, served as Junior Assistant Scoutmaster until aging out.
Rooted Perspective
I grew up in Hawai‘i, where community isn't a value statement; it's just how things get done. Seattle is where I learned to work: analytics and marketing classes, a student credit union, four years of intramural sports. A semester at Sophia University in Tokyo and a study tour through Tuscany stretched that further. Being the person who doesn't fully speak the language or know the customs teaches you to pay close attention.
Sports run through all of it: co-captaining my high school varsity basketball team, officiating and managing intramural leagues, and scrimmaging against a D1 women's basketball team as a practice player. None of this shows up on a dashboard, but it shapes how I build one. I ask who will actually use the thing, I over-communicate rather than assume, and I finish what I start, a habit Scouting drilled in early. The question underneath every project stays the same: how do I make this clearer, more useful, and more human?
What I'm Building Now
- This portfolio, and the public-safe case study write-ups behind it
- GA4, Tag Manager, and lead tracking for a family real estate business
- Marketing analytics and local SEO practice on a real, live project
- Deepening SQL, Python, GA4, and Search Console
- Longer term: JLPT N3 and keeping the Japan connection alive