Edith Smith Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca

Greater San Diego Area

Dedicated member and executive leader on the Rady Children’s Hospital Auxiliary Board of Directors while concurrently serving as a leader at the unit level advocating, educating and fundraising for children on behalf of Rady Children’s Hospital.Auxiliary Board of Directors - multiple positions• Served as the leader for 22 Units consisting of 30+ unit leaders. Established milestones, ensured adherence to Auxiliary by-lays and served as the conduit of information between the Board of Directors and the leaders of each unit.• Implemented leadership roundtable discussions to further develop leadership skills and to facilitate a collaborative, learning environment for unit leaders.• Selected by executives of the Auxiliary and the hospital foundation to serve on a Campaign Feasibility Committee, serving in an advisory capacity on the Hospital’s largest fundraising campaign to date.• Created the vision and planned the Auxiliary’s 60th Anniversary celebration.Auxiliary Unit Ways and Means Vice President• Conceptualized and executed a vision for 8 annual fundraising events benefiting multiple hospital departments. Raised over $5.5 million in donations while leading a large team of volunteers.• Established processes to foster a collaborative environment and achieved greater membership engagement resulting in both improved volunteer morale and increased fundraising. • Managed annual budgets of more than $1 million.

Served as primary contact to support warranty services, negotiate contracts, develop new business opportunities, and manage risk reduction and problem mitigation efforts.• Single point of contact to track, monitor, implement, improve, and close out issues associated with all operations-related activities while keeping stakeholders informed of progress, issues and milestones.• Designed and managed the implementation of a new suite of Globalstar engineering support services. Negotiated over $2 million in new business opportunities. Supervised all aspects of executed agreements including allocating, training, managing and deploying resources, monitoring the budget, and preparing progress reports for customers and internal senior management. • Hand selected by management to rebuild a critical client relationship that was in jeopardy. Managed the development of Globalstar system software diagnostic tools by evaluating customer needs, developing feature requirements, scheduling development and test engineering, and ensuring the timely delivery of quality product.• Managed a team to drive the successful transition of a new suite of tools from design to market including the design of product packaging, development of end user documentation, mitigation of all third-party software licensing issues, and distribution of new releases. • Successfully coordinated the transition of manufacturing capabilities from one factory to another.Managed the development of manufacturing processes for a suite of new products from design to production.• Interfaced directly with Manufacturing, Quality and Test Engineering, Materials Procurement and the Business Unit in order to establish efficient manufacturing processes for the delivery of quality product.• Designed and documented a comprehensive Manufacturing New Products Introduction process resulting in significant improvement in time to market, productivity, manufacturing costs, quality, and customer satisfaction.

Certificate, Project Management

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics