Becky Pittman Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, Us

Former corporate and government employee.

Social Media services include brand management on multiple social networks, 1:1 coaching, implementation of tactics and curbside consulting at workshops. Monitor and integrate the latest social media trends and best practices. Provide nonprofit and financial advisory services in areas such as tax and grant compliance, budgeting, process review & improvement, internal controls assessment and QuickBooks bookkeeping.CURRENT PROJECTS: June 2012 - present"Behind the Scenes" News Chat with Amy Wood, Spreecast Web Show ProducerMarch 2011 - presentHub City Co-op Promotions ConsultantAugust 2010 - present"What's Up Y'all with Amy Wood, ProducerCLIENTS and COLLABORATIONS: *Magic Time Literary Agency*Spartanburg Area Small Business Development Center (Curbside Consultant)*Elizabeth Bagwell (Visual Artist)*Goodbye Valentino (Fashion Blog)* Media Women of South Carolina (2014 Conference Tech Consultant) *SC Arts Commission (Statewide Conference Curbside Consultant)*The Urban Planter (Home Decor)*International Association of Administrative Professionals, Spartanburg Chapter (Curbside Consultant)*Political Candidate Consulting and Reputation Management*Site-Image Web Design*SC Arts AlliancePAST PROJECTS: December 2011 - January 2013Ten at the Top: Upstate Information Hub ManagerLaunched information portal in January, 2012 that provides a Resource Directory and Events Calendar. See Organizations section for more information about this nonprofit organization.October 2010 - March 2012South Carolina Interfaith Power & Light: Media Coordinator and Website Creator/Promoter. Launched the SC affiliate in January 2012 - a joint venture between Interfaith Power & Light of San Francisco, CA and the Wofford College Chaplain's Office in Spartanburg, SC.October 2010 - June 2011Recruited job candidates and promoted the website presence of IntelligenceCareers.com and USADefenseIndustryJobs.com via Facebook and Twitter account creation and community management.

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Supported aircraft and ground equipment maintenance efforts for the Departments of Defense, State and Homeland Security.Obtained quotations and placed orders with approved vendors for requisitioned materials, equipment, supplies and services at the best value to support company goals and requirements in compliance with PAE and DS2 Division internal controls, purchasing policies and procedures and quality standards.Engaged in sourcing vendors, which typically involved surveying product literature, vendor and distributor information financial analysis and cost comparisons where no approved supplier base existed.Prepared and maintained a complete Purchase Order file in accordance with written guidelines and defined processed to support the complete procurement cycle. Enforced FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation) requirements throughout the procurement process. Used Deltek Costpoint Enterprise Resource Planning software for procurement and to research and resolve Accounts Payable, delivery, and receiving issues.

Upstate Information Hub Manager for Ten at the Top's new brand and information portal, OurUpstateSC.Info. Launched an information portal in January, 2012 that provides a Resource Directory and Events Calendar. Also served as a Community Vibrancy Task Force Mentor for Dr. Abe Goldberg's Public Policy students. Ten at the Top's 2030 Shared Upstate Growth Vision: The 10-county Upstate South Carolina region is universally recognized as one of the leading places in the United States to live, learn, do business and raise a family.Ten at the Top was created to foster a spirit of cooperation and collaboration among public, private and nonprofit leaders from across the ten-county Upstate South Carolina Region. The culmination of this effort was the Our Upstate Vision, which represents a picture of what residents want the Upstate to aspire to over the next two decades.The vision calls for the 10-county Upstate region in 2030 to be universally recognized as one of the leading places in the United States to live, learn, do business and raise a family.

South Carolina Interfaith Power & Light: Media Coordinator and Website Creator/Promoter. Launched the South Carolina affiliate in January 2012 with Chaplain Ron Robinson - a joint venture between Interfaith Power & Light of San Francisco, CA and the Wofford College Chaplain's Office in Spartanburg, SC.

Woodbridge, Virginia, Us

Recruited job candidates and promoted the website presence of IntelligenceCareers.com and USADefenseIndustryJobs.com via Facebook and Twitter account creation and community management.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Contracted by Spherion Staffing Services; assigned to the Mobile Catastrophe unit in Spartanburg, SC that responded to damage sustained during a hailstorm. Worked a 12x7 schedule. Provided customer service to policy holders. Collected data for usage by auto adjusters who are assessing hail damage. Assignment was extended three times at client request.

Houston, Texas, Us

EDS (Electronic Data Systems) was acquired by HP (Hewlett Packard) in August, 2008. There was no change in duties.

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Assisted Third Party Contracts Manager from March 2006 and was recruited for the Third Party Contracts Manager position in September 2007. Ahold USA’s IT environment consisted of five grocery store chains utilizing three data centers, three distribution facilities, 900 grocery stores and a food service distribution subsidiary.• Managed all client-owned hardware, software and Information Technology (IT) leases and services - plus EDS agreements - supporting three data centers, three distribution facilities, 900 grocery stores and a food service distribution subsidiary.• Spearheaded direct supplier scope of work and price negotiations, refresh IT commodities and Request for Quote/Request for Proposal (RFQ/RFP) development and execution for specific projects.• Collaborated with operations managers, project managers and vendors on lease refresh scheduling and proper equipment returns to comply with existing lease agreements, working with refresh projects and operational budgets ranging from $7M to $10M.• Oversaw compliance of third party access agreements, generating savings opportunities for required new hardware and software, software maintenance/support and related supplier services. • Developed startup procurement processes for Business and Program Management Office personnel, revised processes on an annual basis; and shepherded Service Level Agreements pertaining to internal purchase request processing agents and vendor deliveries. • Repeatedly recruited for additional duties, including: monthly procurement accruals capture for financial analysts’ month-end reports; capital funds forecasting, request preparation & defense; and software/hardware maintenance client delivery requiring interaction with client, vendor, Program Management Office, and supply chain personnel. Introduced maintenance-need review process.

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Served as liaison to adidas Global IT Purchasing in Germany and enterprise account manager of contracted suppliers. Converted strategic goals for implementation at the subsidiary level. Procured equipment for one data center, 200 retail stores, corporate and remote territory sales personnel. • Managed IT procurement process, including hands-on manual purchase order generation, plus online order placement for end-user, store and data center equipment and software. Maintained e-commerce and Olympic domain repositories for adidas America, adidas Canada and Salomon North America. Validated invoices for accounts payable processing. • Monitored data center hardware & software maintenance and equipment life cycles which impacted capital project timelines and funding needs. Negotiated and reviewed telecom contracts to preserve low cost-per-minute rates. Interpreted contract language prior to internal legal review.

Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, De

Reported to Chief Information Officer (CIO) and EDS Operations Manager in Portland, OR; supervised four-member team of purchasing agent and two invoice analysts. • Monitored $21 M annual operating and capital project budgets. Performed variance analysis• Researched and resolved receivables aging with nationwide vendors, collaborating with controllers within adidas America, Salomon N.A. and adidas International. Utilized SAP and Peoplesoft financial systems.

Mountain View, California, Us

Manufacturer of financial software including Quicken, QuickBooks, TurboTax, and ProSeries. Tax Product Quality Assurance Analyst – One of 34 analysts responsible for testing five federal and 37 state ProSeries tax preparation products. Only analyst performing focused testing on Trial Balance Import and TaxLink functionality using multiple versions of Accountant’s Trial Balance (ATB) & Quickbooks. Served as Technical Liaison to S.C. Dept. of Revenue, Turbo Tax and ProSeries analysts.

One of ten independent literary arts centers in the United StatesOperations Director - Managed TWC’s $400 K annual operating budget and reporting to Executive Director. Supervised Volunteer Coordinator and 70 volunteers. Replaced internal manual accounting system with Quickbooks, reducing reliance on external sources and elimination of expenses.

Tax Auditor III – performed audits in 5 tax areas: sales/use; advanced sales/use, withholding, property & individual income. Recognized for Community Involvement, Job Performance &Team Player.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

326th Army Security Agency and 511th MI Battalion in Augsburg, Germany. Alamo Station in San Antonio, Texas

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Bba In Accounting, Accounting And Economics

Accounting

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