David Sanchez Mba, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

Integrated Project Management Company, Inc. (IPM) is a business consulting firm that advises on and executes complex initiatives to ensure rapid strategy realization with sustainable results. IPM works across organizational levels and functions from start-ups to large enterprises primarily within the Life Sciences, Healthcare, Consumer Products, and Industrial sectors. Since its inception in 1988, IPM has served more than 500 clients and completed more than 5,000 projects. Headquartered in Chicago, IPM has regional offices in Boston, St. Louis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Parsippany, New Jersey. In 2018, IPM achieved the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U.S. organization can receive: a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. IPM was recognized as one of Forbes magazine’s 25 Best Small Companies in America in 2016. In addition, IPM has been named eight times to Inc. Magazine’s annual list of 5,000 fastest-growing private companies--qualifying it for the “Honor Roll” of companies that have made the list five or more times. IPM has also been named a “Best Workplace” for 10 consecutive years (2010-2020) by the Great Place to Work Institute® as published in Fortune magazine. To learn more about IPM and its services, visit ipmcinc.com or call 630-789-8600.

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President’s first Senior Leadership hire for new wholesale subsidiary with first full year revenues of $360M driven by acquisitions and aggressive greenfield expansion. Trusted advisor contributing to company’s vision, value proposition and strategy as well as change management and business integration plans; owner of portfolio and project/program management plans.To realize efficiencies from acquisitions and establish a scalable go-forward operating model:1. Collaborated with functional leaders and executives to design a shared services model for functional areas and leverage increased buying power and negotiate reduced procurement costs.2. Capitalized on acquired company’s ecommerce core competency by mobilizing a distributed cross-functional team that developed and delivered a nationwide 2-day delivery solution that won two new multi-million dollar accounts - Wayfair.Com and UnbeatableSale.Com.3. Leveraged parent company’s product and distribution scale along with start-up subsidiary’s entrepreneurial culture to rapidly operationalize flexible hardware solutions for the grocery/convenience/drug channel and win new major accounts such as Supervalu, Affiliated Foods Midwest (AFM) and Merchant Distributors Inc (MDI).To fill immediate functional and operational needs resulting from rapid start-up growth:1. Served as interim Key Account Manager for two top 10 accounts ramping up to $5MM in combined annual sales.2. Created new team of Account Management Specialists to support $35MM in new business.3. Defined and implemented several scalable operational procedures including processes for prioritizing market development opportunities, onboarding complex national accounts and reporting service level performance.

Retail Innovation consultant responsible for documenting, demonstrating and disseminating project management and EPMO best practices while delivering business results as Program Manager for strategic market development initiatives such as:1. Paint Reinvention: “Store-within-a-store” program delivering many company firsts including: a. Securing rollout commitments from 3,200+ (80%) individually owned stores in 4 months. b. Transforming 3,200+ retail locations in 9 months with a 97% customer satisfaction score. c. Generating $59M incremental paint product revenues in < 1 year.2. 20/20 Vision: A transformational change strategy designed to produce “more and better” stores.  a. Influenced strategy formulation plus identification, prioritization & approval of initiatives.  b. Created primary collateral & overview presentation for associate & retailer communications. c. Developed/implemented an “operational readiness” assessment & corrective measures plan.The formation of the Retail Innovation Team and delivery of these initiatives coincided with the start of consecutive annual improvements for all major KPIs including Same-Store Sales, Average Transaction Size, Retailer Gross Profit and New Store Growth.

Leader of planning and implementation efforts for strategic, enterprise-wide initiatives; Collaborated with Sr. Executives to create, monitor and control a program portfolio, roadmap and plan for a $420M growth initiative involving the re-launch and market expansion of professional services for businesses.

Directed all aspects of the successful launch of a new company and product line, Augmented Resumes (AR's). AR's are customized, multi-dimensional presentation packages designed to help qualified applicants stand out from the competitive crowd of job seekers and secure an initial interview. AR’s supports this objective by incorporating the applicant's text, voice and video into a personalized marketing tool to educate hiring authorities about the multiple dimensions that uniquely define each candidate.

Senior member of EPMO that delivered exceptional shareholder value and demonstrated expert knowledge of the SDLC Methodology, PMI’s Project Management Framework and Change Management by: 1) Leading cross-functional teams that developed and launched a multi-vendor product line that generated revenues of $600M - 16% of total company revenue in 2009; 2) Driving the build-out and launch of a national high-speed data network using learnings from a test market implementation to create a scalable and accelerated deployment plan; 3) Orchestrating the build-out of 45 new retail stores for the launch of the company’s 2nd largest market; 4) Advocating, modeling and teaching project management and change management.

Designed, built and led a team of professionals responsible for the development, marketing and international delivery of consulting and installation services.

Member of an entrepreneurial start-up team that successfully launched a new long distance services business unit and product line. Primary accomplishments included: 1) Creating and leading the business unit EPMO and 2) Defining/documenting all core enterprise-wide business processes such as Customer Acquisition, Customer Service and Revenue Assurance.

Member of an entrepreneurial start-up team that successfully launched a new CATV business unit and product line. Primary deliverables included: 1) Business Case, 2) Business Requirements, 3) Pricing and 4) Partnership Agreements.

Demonstrated progressive growth in responsibilities as well as shareholder value by: 1) Managing a diverse team of technicians that migrated 150K voice and data customer lines from an analog to digital platform, 2) Initiating and managing the engineering and installation of central office transport and switching equipment and 3) Designing and implementing network survivability plans.

Mba, Economics

Bs, Mechanical Engineering