Derek Cliff, Mba Email & Phone Number

United States

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Provides professional financial recommendations to clients. Guiding and planning financial decisions based on the needs, goals, and requirements of the customer. Suggests financial products and offer advice on estate planning, mortgages, retirements, insurance, and more. Additionally, deliver reports of accounts and answers economic related questions.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Challenge and push the boundaries with stakeholders at all levels of the organization to build up competence in operationally excellent practices that drive the business
• Remove barriers and manage risks and issues which arise to ensure successful delivery of business objectives
• Train and coach designees embedded within each business unit to deliver on targets

Maryville, Illinois

• Lead highly-skilled, specialized professionals across design, construction, maintenance, financial controls, and customer satisfaction. Develop and manage relationships with key governmental officials, major customers.
• Introduced unique tool enabling field performance measurements and improvements.
• Reduced workgroup headcount 20% and overtime costs by 100K annually by improving shift scheduling.
• Achieved best safety record in Ameren IL history for 240-member workgroup.
• Streamlined and improved substation inspection logistics, reducing resource usage 24%.
• Gained interdepartmental alignment, improving job closure metric from under 30% to nearly 100%.

Decatur, Illinois Area

• Led geographically dispersed team of 60 providing oversight for 1K gas, electric, distribution, substation, vegetation management, circuit inspections and joint-use contractors, ensuring regulatory compliance..
• Restructured workgroup to meet 250% project spend increase over two years, supporting ROE targets.
• Decreased overall vegetation management spend $2M (4%) despite increases in service provider costs.
• Saved 50% labor and $10K annually on postage expenditures by digitizing notification process.
• Improved supplier diversity spend percentage 88%, aligning with leadership and regulator expectations.
• Invited to present on topic of Understanding and Relating our Products to the Future Customer at utility industry summit.

• Directed development, implementation, and maintenance of technology, processes and services for business lines and individual employees. Spearheaded strategic planning to improve immediate performance and solidify.
• Produced 10% annual savings by prioritizing and auditing projects to ensure optimal resource utilization.
• Integrated workgroups, gaining cohesiveness that enabled sharing of best practices and benchmarking.
• Saved $100K annually by effectively realigning and redistributing work assignments.
• Eliminated $250K in annual costs by developing and managing printer standards change.

• Ensured safe, effective, and efficient electric department workings to meet performance objectives and compliance. Managed tool budget and partnered to implement O&M and capital budgets by making appropriate decisions.
• Reduced outlying troublemen 25% by reviewing workload and combining territories.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Masters Degree, Management Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Sigma Beta Delta

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science Engineering

Activities and Societies: Sigma Beta DeltaMajored in Computer Systems Engineering with a minor in Electrical Engineering.