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Ballwin, Mo, Us

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

Overseeing seamless execution of Verizon programs, aligning cross-functional teams to ensure operational excellence and financial performance. Accountable for driving customer satisfaction, resolving escalations, and delivering strategic value to strengthen partnerships and maximize outcomes.- Designed and led the Strategic Resourcing (SR) program, optimizing resource allocation and unlocking new business opportunities. Enhanced executive relationships, drove operational efficiency, and fostered team collaboration to align with my customer's strategic goals and drive business growth.- Orchestrated the Asset 360 Initiative, deploying an automation strategy crucial for achieving my customer's full visibility and financial accuracy across MSAs. Applied AI with telemetry and CMDBs to achieve a 90% accuracy source of truth, enabling accurate MSA adjustments and maximizing investment returns.- Oversaw staging and configuration, lab as a service engagements, and field services, enhancing service delivery capabilities and operational efficiencies. Managed complex logistics and technical setups that supported my customer's expansive network needs and strategic deployments.

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

Enhancing customer and partner value, transitioning business towards service-oriented solutions. Establishing customer executive relationships, leveraging domain expertise for sales efforts, capturing contracts, positioning WWT in key initiatives, and developing effective business cases.- Established labs to support OEM and customer teams, converting this into a recurring revenue stream.- Instrumental in strategic resourcing, consulting, and developing LaaS and POCs.

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

Worked as a primary point of contact for customers to increase sales and develop cost saving solutions. Built relationships with franchises like Carrier Management and Transport optical business. Addressed Covid restrictions by orchestrating a program that provided on-ground support for Verizon, facilitating site surveys, installations, and migrations.- Continued to expand business to $300-350M annual spend, amid Covid challenges.- Provided one-of a kind creative solutions leading a transcontinental subsea trial between California and Japan, overcoming lockdown restrictions by procuring, exporting and importing goods within one week.- Led the deployment of edge connectivity devices, growing it into a multi-million-dollar business.

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

Handled procurement, program management, material planning, and operational requirements. Excelledin negotiating discounts with vendors like Cisco, which greatly improved profitability. Worked closely with planning and material management to streamline production processes and ensure smooth deployment of Cisco NCS products for major SP. Most importantly, established strong relationships with various OEMs and used Oracle ERP for operational tasks, including forecasting.- Spearheaded the automation of order entry/processing, resulting in a 75% time saving and 100% accuracy. - Created multi-OEM solutions, significantly reducing major SP's OPEX, contributing to a $250M annual spend and overall business growth.- Accelerated SP's time to market for Cisco’s Network Convergence Solution, reduced product lead time from 12 weeks to 20 days, reduced truck rolls to site, 55-75% fewer hours required for site installation.

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

Supporting the AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon Managed Services team, my role encompassed complexprogram focus, new program setup, financial impact analysis, and root cause trend analysis. I collaborated cross-functionally, advocated change, provided training, and drove continuous improvement and IT projects. Excelled in order processing, maximized GP through deal utilization, negotiated discounts with OEM managers, and transformed the business from subsidy to achieving additional GP.- First point of contact for escalations, applying WWT's IML tools, and analyzing business metrics.- Demonstrated high-quality decision-making, result delivery, and leadership.- Automating processes to reduce human intervention, improving data management and integrity,leading to wins for customers, OEM partners, and WWT.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Identified the financial needs of customers and recommended products and services to meet those demands. Utilized sales experience, product and procedural knowledge, and willingness to consultatively guide customer issues towards quick resolution. Worked closely with various partners in business banking, mortgage and investments to refer business back and forth, gaining a deeper share of wallet, while meeting all clients’ needs. Continuous passion for self-study, improvement and growth, led to proficiency in business banking products and obtaining expertise.- Conducted day-to-day operations during absence of management that included ordering supplies, managing realty services and other weekly tasks that kept branch moving seamlessly.- Taught classes on money management and lending to assist audience in making smarter financial decisions.- Achieved the third best sales track record in region during first full year with continued month-monthgrowth.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Provided guidance and innovative solutions for individuals in the areas of retirement planning, insuranceand education funding. Acquired insurance licenses through self-study to solicit life, health, disability andlong-term care insurance in the states of Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Minnesota and Illinois. Marketedmyself through a systematic method of reaching out to clients, insuring that no one was overlooked.

International Business

International Business