Formula that calculate two columns/text

Good afternoon Everyone,
I am trying to write a formula (if it exists) that will allow me to look at two different columns of data and calculate 3 pieces of information:
1. Open items per consultant
2. Closed items per consultant
3. Percentage of open items based on total of open and closed items per consultant.
example: I want it to calculate Stacy has x amount of total open items from the list. Here's part of my spreadsheet. The columns (Open Actions, Closed Actions and % Open Actions) will be a seperate table.
Item #
Requested Date
Main SME
Target Date
Status
Open Actions
Closed Actions
% Open Actions
1
4/28/2014
Stacy
6/27/2014
Open
2
4/28/2014
Stacy
6/27/2014
Open
3
4/29/2014
Stacy
5/29/2014
Closed
4
4/29/2014
Stacy
5/29/2014
Closed
5
4/29/2014
Stacy
5/29/2014
Closed
6
4/29/2014
Stacy
10/1/2014
Deferred to Design
7
4/29/2014
Stacy
5/29/2014
Closed
8
4/29/2014
Stacy
5/29/2014
Closed
9
4/29/2014
Stacy
5/29/2014
Closed
10
4/29/2014
Stacy
5/29/2014
Closed
11
4/29/2014
Stacy
5/29/2014
Closed
12
4/29/2014
Stacy
6/6/2014
Closed
13
4/29/2014
Eric
7/11/2014
Open
14
4/29/2014
Mukund
7/11/2014
Open
15
4/29/2014
Rao
7/11/2014
Open
16
4/29/2014
Stacy
6/27/2014
Open
17
4/29/2014
Sriram
5/29/2014
Closed
18
4/29/2014
Sriram
5/29/2014
Closed
19
4/29/2014
Sumit
6/13/2014
Open
Thanks in advance, Cicely

Open items:
=COUNTIFS(C:C,"Stacy",E:E,"Open")
or use a cell reference with the name "Stacy" - use this if you have a list of names you want to use and want to just copy the formula down to match the list:
=COUNTIFS(C:C,G2,E:E,"Open")
Closed items
=COUNTIFS(C:C,"Stacy",E:E,"Closed")
Percentages:
=Cell1/(Cell1 + Cell2)
where Cell1 and 2 are the cells with the formulas.

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