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 Implemented Subcontractor Oversight Plan actions to manage scope, cost, and schedule deliverables with execution team. Serving as example to other teams on how to meet role and responsibility expectations. Reinforced Project standards via direct interface with supplier corporate managers during periods of supplier instability to drive cost and schedule improvements.  Directing the largest, most complex technical contract within the SFHP at NRF, which is a critical project to keep the nuclear navy up and running. Requires active and flexible collaboration and drive. Relentlessly pursued Independent Cost Review of $288M contract before critical congressional deadline in order to present accurate and meaningful data. Action took 1/3 of the time than prior tasks due to aggressive relationship building and schedule management. Developed increased funding plan to accelerate multiple critical and interdependent development contracts. Passionately committed to organizational and team optimization via well-structured training and personnel development. Proven leader on the fast track to key management with multiple promotions in just three years. Created opportunities for personal development by identifying process gaps and using talents to fill gaps and improve process and project strength in high-visibility areas.

 Established framework for project controls and interfaces to effect improvements in the overall approach to a new critical DOE project using lessons-learned from current construction project.  Jumped in to fill the void resulting from another employee leaving and ended up leading the entire facility construction planning initiative and creating analysis for schedule options to reduce scope and schedule which resulted in large project scope reduction.

• Teach business-marketing concepts (including ethics), manage the class syllabus, assign curriculum, facilitate understanding and provide feedback on assignments to students of diverse backgrounds and professional levels. Expert in learning and standard office software.• Enhance the student experience by creating new ways to highlight the opportunities for them to improve their work. My feedback model was shared with all instructors at the University as a best practice.

• Created sales model that Fortune 200 Company implemented to guide employees through the call flow; included building relationships, setting the stage, discovery, transitioning, and offering while presenting a solution. This new process helped to increase sales revenue by 10%8.• Headed all aspects of employee labor relations including ethics and compliance training, feedback, documentation, and disciplinary processes in multiple ques. All while adhering to bargained for and labor laws.• Managed multiple projects, prioritizing them to ensure projects were done efficiently and within budget and time constraints.• Mastered a multitude of software programs to analyze data and present information, communicate issues and recommend solutions.• Assigned low performing representatives by the company and took corrective action to improve performance, moving both individual and team performance to the top 3% in the company. • Before promotion to management was top 1% in the company in sales out of 2500 sales and service representatives.

• Assessed product enhancement opportunities and led cross-functional team to develop new brands on time and budget, exceeding profit goals consistently. Forecasting units for production and sales was integral.• Interpreted technical data from research and development and simplified it for communication to the team and customers.• Given ownership of declining brands to re-brand/reposition them. Relaunched most-recent into a growth rate of 21% over prior year.• Managed creative teams in the production of short-form multi-media. Designed and produced over a dozen new product launch videos to train the sales force.