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Atlanta, GA, US

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• CB Salesforce Analytics & Data Solution Owner, driving strategy & development of analytics for B2B Sales & Marketing, as well as championing and driving data architecture & governance across the ecosystem.
• Product Owner for Salesforce Data Cloud (30M profiles) & Marketing Cloud applications (15M+ emails)
• Drove MDM for CB Customer Hierarchy. Partnered with Technology to implement (350K Customers).
• Partnered with Technology on future-state cloud data architecture; establishing 10+ key data domains

Greater Atlanta Area

• Run the Commercial Services Business Intelligence team (staff of 15+). Scope includes support and delivery of BI, reporting & analytics for Cox Business and Cox Media across all business functions & a base of 450+.
• Implemented Client Analytics Partner org model, increasing alignment with VP-level strategies & goals
• Drove delivery efficiencies in team, absorbing 10% incremental scope and a ~25% reduction in capital funding. Reduced avg ticket duration by 50%, while absorbing 28% additional ticket volume.
• Direct data-driven business process improvements, including PreCIS (expected 30%+ efficiencies in Sales Compensation process) and CB Transaction Reduction.
• Delivered Pending Revenue analytics, enabling market leaders to better see & drive backlog reduction

Greater Atlanta Area

Run the Technology Business Management organization (staff of 20+). Scope includes Portfolio Management ($100M+); Vendor Management for strategic vendors (covering $0.5B+ annual spend); headcount control on 1800+ positions; development of processes & analytics spanning the Technology organization.- Managed & governed $100M+ Technology-owned Portfolio.

Greater Atlanta Area

Client: $70B North American Wireless Carrier- Lead consultant on end-to-end forecasting & planning process design for the mobility network planning (RAN to MTSO).- Program Managed start-up of Lean Six Sigma program for Network Engineering organization, including facilitating selection of 20 Black Belt candidates, building & maintaining the project idea.

Greater Atlanta Area

- PMO start-up on ~$20M CRM systems integration project for a Eastern European Telecommunications Provider, defining project schedule, project collaboration standards (across US, EU, and IN), & performing SOW risk analysis.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Telecom, Media & EntertainmentClient: European Telecommunications Provider (Nov 2008 - May 2010)
• PMO Lead for $10M initiative (~$250K under-budget) to implement & integrate Siebel CRM, Oracle OSM, and Kana Knowledge Management
• Championed project communication and document control tools & processes to manage and control the project across 3 countries & timezones involved in the delivery effort
• Stepped in as primary Infrastructure liaison – internally and client-facing – resolving numerous technical and management issues around environments and network connectivity
• Mentored other project team members in project management best practices (scheduling, communications & risk management)Client: North American Telecommunications Provider (Oct 2007 - Oct 2008)
• Managed PMO for multiple Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing projects spanning a team of 10-15 onshore resources and 20-30 offshore resources.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Manage team of 4 project managers and 2 system support personnel, reporting to SVP Global Product Marketing. Set & direct policy and standards for project management artifacts & processes
• Projects span major functional groups including hardware & software engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and supply chain
• Work to align constrained resources & development demand with corporate priorities
• Globally-distributed organization, including USA, Latvia, Sweden, China and Singapore
• 15-20 active new product developments & deployments (hardware, software & networking)Project Management
• Manage embedded POS terminal software projects spanning global markets and teams (EMEA, Asia/Pac, Americas) supporting new product development.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Business Analyst & Project Manager– Consulted with cross-company business groups to understand, re-engineer, and implement Supply Chain processes, analytics, systems, and methodologies.Responsible for the successful.
• Vendor Management – Conceived, planned, and managed $120,000 project implementing a system connecting major business units with external tooling vendors.
• Demand Manager/Collaborative Forecasting – Managed implementation of $100K tool for statistical & collaborative forecasting, used to forecast approximately 36M units (1000 SKU's) annually.
• Production Planning - Lead initial design & implementation of production planning model, utilizing heuristic scheduling algorithms (approximate optimization), integrating tactical plans and demand with operational.
• Master Data Accuracy - Lead Six Sigma DMAIC project improving product master data accuracy between legacy systems & SAP (10,000 SKU's; Black Belt training project).

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Production Planner – Managed production plan of a tire plant producing 11,000 tires/day to maximize customer satisfaction and balance to manufacturing & inventory constraints.
• Reporting & Analytics – Partnered with IT staff and Finance to develop management-facing reporting & analytics on production & inventory.

Supported diverse network of computer systems. Part-time; 20 hrs/wk.

Cooperative employment (full-time, every other school term). Consulted with electric power utilities, performing supply planning and forecasting. Now a division of Clough Harbour & Associates.

Mba, General Management

Activities and Societies: Innovation Challenge Case Competition4.06 / 4.0 GPA

Bsie, Industrial Engineering, 3.45 / 4.0 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Study Abroad, Connect With Tech, Campus Tour Guides, Department of Housing, Teaching Assistant, IBB