Bill Begg Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Consultancy with practice areas including:
• Program/Project Management, AGILE/Scrum, and Lean Operations
• Financial Modeling and Decision Support

Greater Denver Area

• Led post-merger CenturyLink/Level 3 systems rationalization including pre-sales quotes, financial analysis, customer quote presentation, and ultimately to contract
• Conceived, designed and implemented an automated deal analysis and approval system that lowered special pricing approvals from up to two days, to under 1 minute
• Led teams of between 5 and 13 people working on CPQ and deal financial analysis systems; post-merger systems integrations; and process improvements
• Built a business case for, and sold Finance on, changing the internal return metric for all B2B deals from IRR to mIRR
• Picked-up and drove a systems development project with an extremely compressed timeline that would support the acquisition of up to $15 billion in government telecom business (EIS)
• Quarterly VP Award: POM Innovator – “recognition of risk taking, skillful decision making, acceptance/support of new ideas, problem solving, creativity, and barrier removal”

United States

• Consultancy creating solutions for complex issues in the areas of business startup; financial modeling; pricing/costing analysis; web development; database design and implementation. Engagements include:CenturyLink, Inc
• Product Owner, Pricing Analysis Support System (PASS). Distilled requests from Pricing and Sales into well-developed user-stories and coordinated testing of new functionality
• Focused and drove AGILE development team forward, leading to an immediate increase in Sprint Velocity of better than 75% above target velocity
• Wrote business cases for large, complex transactions for executive review and approvalThe Socrates Foundation
• Architect/Programmer for a proprietary LMS and usage tracking system. The product served-up dynamic and static educational material (including text, documents, images, videos, dynamic testing) with a reporting module.
• Designed, and implemented several free-standing educational modules, including a Mitral Valve Replacement module with dynamic graphics, and a Colorectal Surgery overviewThe Society of Thoracic Surgeons -- Vendor

Fairfax Station, VA

• Principal providing consulting, pricing-model development/refinement, competitive intelligence, and web development services for clients in the government contracting space. Engagements include:HP Enterprise Services.
• Engineered a web-based Competitive Pricing System (CPS) that would blindly deliver competitors’ labor rates for given job categories based on HP-defined labor categories
• The CPS reduced planning time by 55-70% for each projectQWEST Communications
• Reverse-engineered a large, world-wide data traffic model (Networx)
• Performed data mining and price sensitivity analyses
• Optimized client pricing by identifying and leveraging publicly available competitor pricing

Ann Arbor, MI

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