Barbara Simons Email and Phone Number

- Manage expense planning and forecasting for IBM sites in the northeast territory.

IBM Corporation, Armonk, NYMarketing Operations Specialist 2004 – March 2012• Managed expense plans and provided operations support and guidance for key marketing functions for IBM North America. • Successfully created new organizational and expense structure for “Center of Excellence” for IBM North America marketing organization including offshore global operations centers.• Managed project expense plans for several large marketing initiatives: Co-marketing program involved $12M + annual budget with 1200+ business partners.• Coordinated and consolidated plans, forecasts, analysis, reporting for total North America marketing organizations with annual budget exceeding $200M

Global Sales & Distribution Headquarters, White Plains, NYSenior Financial Analyst • Led team of five analysts in the Global Sales and Distribution Headquarters finance organization.• Developed and coordinated budgets, forecasts and reports for various headquarter organizations: Marketing, Communications, HR, Executive and Sales Operations totaling $100M plus annually.• Managed approximately $50M capital plan for same organization.• Successfully created finance structure for new global headquarters organization. Consolidated approximately eight organizations under one new reporting division where none existed. Total annual budget of approximately $100M.• Developed and executed automated forecast process across Global Sales and Distribution Headquarters finance organization.Previous experience at IBM also included Office Systems Administration Manager in the Europe / Middle East / Africa division and coordination of project bidding in the Real Estate and Construction Division - NY Tri-State Area