Brianna Atkinson, Mafm, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

United States

United States

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Atlanta, Georgia

– Managed capital and operational IT projects from $600K to $16M from inception to implementation. Supported transitions, by being a partner, with the project team to identify trends, pain-points, and opportunities.– Collaborated with senior leaders to establish project methodologies and standards to ensure the project was delivered within scope and on-time. Generated and distributed PPM, PBI, and financial reporting.– Spearheaded weekly meetings with PMs to provide project expenditures (YTD actual, forecast, and pending commitments against budget). Discussed project updates / changes to milestones, scope, and project completion.– Forecasted, maintained, analyzed, and monitored project health on capital and operating budgets for multiple projects to stay within schedule variance within 10%.– Collaborated with managers and individual contributors to assist with resource-leveling and management of core and project capacity for their teams. Created HP-PPM Core Work Plans (CWP).– Generated and distributed monthly capacity and financial reports for senior leadership.

Peachtree City, Georgia

– Proactively planned, scheduled, monitored, and reported activities for $30K to $2M in lighting control system projects that utilized various proprietary and open digital, wireless, integral fixture, and panel-based technologies.– Established project goals, such as prioritized demands, the sequence of activities, and detailed schedules to meet customer requirements. Clarified criteria for each deliverable such as approval drawings, submittal drawings, network configuration, specification compliance, start-up co-ordination, commissioning, and training sign-off.– Worked with stakeholders and IT departments to determine if the system would be stand-alone or network, via VLAN, cloud based, etc. Worked with various functional groups to manage changes and change notices, such as Inside Sales, Customer Service, Supply Chain, Technical Services, and Operations.– Provided ongoing monitoring and communication of deliverables to various project stakeholders at the agent, distributor, contractor, and end-customer location. Worked with project stakeholders to suggest and implement improvements and/or modifications to project scope, deliverables, timelines, and resources. – Reviewed overall project margins as they pertained to product costs, engineering and design costs, and startup / commissioning costs to prevent the erosion of margin for avoidable costs. – Established project management tools, in addition to maintaining visual timelines, for each project to ensure unified efforts and coordination at the customer site.– Created and provided closeout binders for customers with all pertinent project information. Conducted and posted a weekly review with key stakeholders as part of the continuous improvement effort to achieve world-class project management standards.

Peachtree City, Georgia

– Provided market and competitive position of the pricing for multiple regional price levels. Supported Marketing and Sales teams’ long-term strategy. Established metrics for Electrical and Retail Distributor Channels. – Utilized pricing tools, playbooks, and scorecards to offer potential new business opportunities to the Sales team. Collaborated with the Customer Service team to develop and implement an on-boarding training for new domestic sales agents and refresher training for existing sales agents. Work with Product Managers on validating technical product information.– Coordinated and executed training for new hires in the pricing department. Performed monthly “Builder Doc” update, tracking analytics to capture incremental growth for New Builders and carryover agreements. – Led project for price increase implementation across the Wiring Devices Electrical Distribution customers across five sales regions (6000+ customers) involving the divisions' entire product portfolio of 6500+ parts. – Supported projects and programs for price and quote management, with the coordination of cross-functional resources. Executed the changes to the comprehensive Multiplier Pricing Guide (MPG) updating the format to be more user-friendly with the core part number and creating a color template to which reduce processing time for creating special pricing agreements and making stock adjustments. – Served as Head Pricing Analyst for three separate sales regions (West, Gulf, and Southeast). Completed a mixture of marketing, accounting, and strategic planning for a “Lighting Controls Promotion Project.”– Recognized for building strong customer relationships and increasing agent sales by 20% in a single quarter. Served as team lead on Special Pricing Agreement renewal and analysis process.

Newnan, Georgia

– Received the “Award of Excellence” for 15 consecutive years of going above and beyond while serving as a cross-functional employee across multiple departments.– Oversaw and prepared the daily and weekly profit and loss (P&L) summary.– Completed weekly analyses of production models and daily analyses of sales margins.– Provided direct training and support to the Cost Accounting Manager; played a contributory role to ensure achievement of objectives; created and updated production models, yield test analyses, pricing functions, weekly pricing revaluations, weekly cost analyses, and recommended areas of improvement on cutting methods.

Master Of Accounting And Financial Management (Mafm), Concentration In Certified Public Accounting

Activities and Societies: Student Member – Georgia Society of CPAs Member – National Association for Black Accountants (NABA)

Bachelor Of Science In Technical Management, Concentration In Accounting

Activities and Societies: Atlanta Alumni