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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+ active users; managing delivery with Technology and vendors; partnering with CCI BI leaders in development of BI strategy.• 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 within 1.5% variance. Facilitated senior leadership (VP-SVP) in prioritizing projects and funding allocations.- Directed monthly CTO reporting on the business operations of Technology. Leveraged advanced reporting & analytical tools including Tableau to cut reporting time by 50-60%.- Directed restart of the Technology Vendor Management program, delivering vendor management strategy, business models, and vendor scorecards & analytics to the CTO and Technology VP’s.- Lead team of analysts in developing & hardening advanced analytics on core Technology business processes, including: financial actuals, project forecasts, labor accruals, project opex, time tracking. Partnered with Finance, Accounting and EPMO to align on, deliver & support enterprise-level analytics.- Directed & architected initial deployment of the Apptio tool; including modeling $275M+ annual IT spend into industry-aligned framework.

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 pipeline, and counseling Black Belt candidates on application of Lean & DMAIC.Client: $9B North American Cable MSO- Lead Portfolio Management start-up for $200M+ project portfolio.- Defined & elaborated portfolio management processes- Partnered with Business stakeholders to prioritize & balance the portfolio

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.• Defined PMO processes for onshore/offshore communication and interaction, including project & capacity planning cycles, and responsibility breakdown between onshore and offshore project managers, development leads, and test leads.• Improved project tracking and visibility across PMO team by implementing detailed project scheduling tied directly to effort-based estimates in MS Project.• Improved resource and capacity visibility by creating cross-project resource planning/leveling model in MS Project. Trained and mentored onshore and offshore PMO team in use of the model and general best practices.• Championed document management and version control as means to enhance onshore/offshore communications.

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. • $700,000 budget to port 80 applications from legacy platform in advance of new product deploymentOutsourcing • Built & managed outsourced software vendor relationships and managed related development activities. • Ramped outsource teams from no Hypercom platform experience to full productivity for the project in 3 months, integrating with Hypercom standards, systems & processes

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 implementation of core systems: • 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 production • 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