Edward Hirsch Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Leading mission-critical, cross-functional efforts in the IT space. Enterprise Application hosting, Global Rollouts, Application Development, and Acquisition Integration. PMO Leader and Manager.A partial list of my work at Hyatt includes:• Built Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity capacity and process for critical cash-register applications• Led program managers on business & technical integration of multiple Acquisitions, driving +100 colleagues and +$10M budgets• Coordinated colo data center buildouts and hosting strategies for ERPs, HR IT, and other enterprise systems, with budgets of $2-$6M per effort• Executed must-do responses to Cyber Security mandates and vulnerability remediation• Project and Program management overseeing new app and business program development, creating a program now driving +$20M/year annual revenueOn top of hiring, training, managing & leading a team of cross-functional Program Managers out of the IT space to provide white-glove Tech-Ops support across the company.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Process and IT Project to meet OCC regulatory standards for lending risk managemento Project to develop and launch reporting tools combining work across eight project development teams and five business requirements teams with conflicting requirementso Oversight of the requirements, design and UAT testing of reporting work-streams

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Managed IT Project to replace client investment reporting tool with new platform utilizing web serviceso Launched new platform on time and on budget by coordinating web services and calculation engine team of 16, managing Agile rRequirements analysis and review, communications coordination between IT and product, weekly budget and status reporting, cross-project staff balancing, onboarding new staffo Developed team standards for baseline project estimates, High level design documentation and project reviews. Aided other PMs in development of workload Gantt Charts for multi-stage projects

Dallas, Texas, Us

Analytics support as well as Project Management of development initiatives. Enhanced reporting and dashboard utilization of team members, led donor re-acquisition program and supported day-to-day leadership reporting needs.o Drove $500k in additional annual revenue by directing lapsed donor initiative to reconnect with customers o Led initiatives to deliver same-day performance reporting to senior leadership, acknowledgement/ recognition process of donorso Guided Microsoft CRM installation and workflow launches for sales activities, Enhanced prospecting and outreach processes, integration of donor and volunteer databases

Austin, Texas, Us

• Led team of 4 MBA students in developing $10MM capital-raising options to support firm’s 3-year sales growth plan of residential technology platform• Modeled company’s expense/revenue forecasts, present value and likely market replication costs• Presented recommendations on short-term debt coverage and strategies for Venture/Brought In capital partners• Recommended strategy of selling platform to third party for distribution

Chicago, Il, Us

Coordination of major donor development team. Managed team/lead reporting, piloting of new tool functionality, annual events and recognition. o Grew annual major donor revenue 10% by delivering projects to improve CRM for relationship tracking, volunteering, and event participation to improve customer relations and retentiono Implemented point-and-click reporting tools for development team by trained staff in use of new database tools and data mining, reducing turnaround previous times from 2-3 day turnaround

Chicago, Il, Us

• Audited incoming pledge information with ~$30MM annually for processing to accounting database• Trained seasonal support staff of 10 on data entry tools and developed improved audit processes for team; reduced processing time of pledge packets to 1.5 weeks from 3.5

Mba, Business Administration And Management

Bs, Mathematics