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 to provide real-time metrics• 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• Designed and programmed an exclusive Thoracic Database -- which subsequently included five successful incremental versions -- allowing for collection, analysis and exportation of data to the Duke Clinical Research Institute

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, Inc.• 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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