Support CEO and Executive Leadership in developing and executing strategic initiatives and business objectives. Conduct research, gather data, and provide insights to aid decision making. Manage cross functional projects and initiatives, including setting up a method for collecting data with executives, reporting on progress to milestones, and identifying issues and obstacles requiring the CEO and Executive Leadership attention, and help resolve challenges. Act as a liaison between departments to facilitate communication and alignment across Executive Leadership Teams.

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Manage the US Entity and all aspects of Operations and Business Development for the North America Region.

Responsible for Account Operations on Digitas Chicago's largest portfolio; managing Jenn-Air and KitchenAid portfolio. Serves as Lead Project Manager on integrated campaign work. Managed and coached project managers within the portfolio and across the team. Worked closely with capability leads across User Experience, Technology, Finance, Creative, Strategy & Analytics, Marketing Operations and Account Management.

Managed end - end projects for Sprint (Digitas Chicago's largest business) and manage individual contributors within the portfolio. Worked with Digitas New Business Team on scoping, staffing and proposal for new revenue opportunities. Project Management lead on BP business. Coached and mentored project managers on the team. Leadership and Development lead for Project Management capability and responsible for training curriculum as we'll as facilitated office-wide sessions for the capability.

Managed team of 7 Project Managers that are responsible for various retainer based projects within the Sears Holdings Corp. Directly responsible for growth, development and success of my team. Served as escalation point for conflict resolution within the teams I manage as well as both internal and external teams. Experience managing wide breadth of projects for various business units. Mentor and manage project managers working on individual projects within the programs I support. Well versed in creating documentation for new and updated processes, standards, templates, and writing and developing training materials. Facilitated various user research sessions through the use of focus group process as well as various user research technologies. Ability to lead a team through pitch generation and RFP response and experience in SOW generation. Ability to effectively create and facilitate sessions with a focus on: brainstorming, requirements generation, mid and post-mortem, and group sessions through the use of group facilitation methods and best practices. Experience in developing a dynamic meeting agenda that takes into account project and meeting goals as well as understanding team dynamics. Skilled in gathering groups together and assisting with conflict resolution, collaboration and consensus building. Build, cultivate, and maintain long term relationships within the User Experience, Online Business Unit, and external Business Units within Sears Holdings Corp.Proficient in Microsoft Office, Basecamp, Qualtrics, User Testing.com and all products within Microsoft Suite, including Visio.

Managed day to day operational aspects of multiple projects, run both internal and external reviews with various stakeholders and cite, investigate, and mitigate risk while managing project workload. Managed various and extensive interactive projects in the web and mobile ecommerce space for various business units. Responsible at times for end to end project management. Build, cultivate, and maintain long term relationships within the User Experience, Online Business Unit, and external Business Units within Sears Holdings Corp.Senior Project Manager for the Mobile and Shop Your Way Rewards loyalty program to ensure alignment of scope, resources, and timelines. Contributed to success of Mobile program and as a result, our team received 2011 Mobile Retailer of the year award.

Acted as a liaison between client services team and the creative teams.Effectively coordinated resources across multiple teams to ensure projects were completed on time and on budget.Served as primary contact to clients, responsible for coordinating project expectations as well as project details for clients in the mobile and technology space.

Proactively managed technical implementation and ongoing engagements for customers with a result of project completion and customer and partner satisfactionEffectively coordinated internal resources from multiple departments to address customer escalations and requirements

Introduced new technology to the Chicagoland market by presenting to business owners and IT consulting firmsConducted technical presentations to decision makers in regards to i365 backup and restore technology

Effectively presented payroll solutions to business owners and upper management of small to medium sized businesses and consistently hit my sales goals in a referral-based selling environment. Developed expertise in a new time tracking system and became the training manager and lead for the product within the territory. Managed and led all training programs for the product. As a leader within the region, I was nominated to the Mentor program and was responsible for assisting management in the training and onboarding of new employees, which increased productivity and retention by 25% in the region. Implemented strategies to improve results and effectiveness of the Region while President of District Manager CouncilAchieved 120% of quota for Fiscal Year 2004, 110% of quota for Fiscal Year 2005, 100% of plan, year-to-date for Fiscal Year 2006; top 5% of region in each Fiscal Year