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• Provided desktop publishing, production, and select administrative support to produce professionally prepared and compliant proposal submittals and other business development artifacts.• Analyzed RFP, RFI, RFQ solicitations for proposal requirements that impact format and production.• Supported the Proposal Manager throughout the proposal lifecycle to coordinate proposal documentation (i.e., outlines and compliance matrices).• Edited and formatted proposals and other business development artifacts.• Coordinated with Marketing Team to promote and maintain consistency in company branding and messaging.• Developed new or enhanced existing graphics and illustrations in support of business development documentation.• Generated templates and outlines for proposal volumes/sections based on RFP criteria (i.e., outlines, staffing plans, executive summaries, resumes).• Developed templates for business development documentation and training material.• Analyzed and documented and shared business development artifacts and proposals through the SharePoint business development site.• Updated, edited, and maintained content in past performance library.• Served as Volume Lead for Business/Contracts volumes as may be assigned to ensure all required documents are submission-ready and appropriately signed/dated.• Monitoring of opportunity updates within GovWin and SAM.Gov.• Maintained data call logs to ensure all required information was received on time from subsidiaries and SMEs.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Point of contact for all SE Analyzer proposals, managing the entire proposal process from creation of support request to issuing final proposal to customers.• Collaborated with Project Managers to create Analyzer proposal process.• Worked jointly with Engineering, Sales, Product Development and Finance to create proposal templates, pricing tools, technical details and any other pertinent information required in proposals.• Proposal scope included Analyzer system proposals, service visits and spare parts proposals.• Created Salesforce reports and excel spreadsheets in order to track open support requests.• Lead and hosted weekly proposal meetings prioritizing open proposal requests with sales and management teams.• Ensure all departments contributing to proposal creation are fulfilling their obligations in order to issue proposals in a timely and accurate manner.• Coordinate closely with Engineering, Product Development managers and sales team to integrate technical data and pricing information to complete analyzer equipment, service requests and spare parts proposals.• Utilize extensive pricing books, parts lists and configuration tools in order to build and price analyzer product proposals. • Lead efforts to organize, prioritize and create proposals for Gas Chromatographs, Hydrocarbon Smart Systems, Pionir and Mass Spectrometers. • Created 400 proposals in 2021 enabling the sales team and Analyzer group to reach their monetary goals for the year.

Houston, Texas, United States

Order acknowledgement, validation/integrity check of order (internal/external customers) placed through Buy Automation; ensuring amendments to orders are actioned immediately, communicating details to the appropriate supplier.• Monitor order status, communicating any issues to customers/suppliers.• Monitor status and co-ordinate deliveries from various sources to delivery site. Liaise with internal suppliers and vendors to ensure requirements satisfied, negotiating best price/deliveries and raising purchase orders as necessary.• Providing contact point/knowledge base for sales team, internal/external customers in all aspects of administration and support as required.• Interface with manufacturing’s engineering, design and implementation of product through the drawing approval process.• Collaborate with other departments to integrate logistics with business systems or processes, such as customer sales, procurement, order management, accounting, or shipping.• Follows up and communicates with manufacturing for queries regarding lead-times, order status, escalations, etc.• Ensuring purchase orders are commercially complete/ accurate before processing for order entry. Reconcile the SAP order with the customer’s purchase order and issue accurate invoices upon delivery of order.

• Responsible for the collection and reporting of sales orders and forecast data to improve overall sales productivity for SE Strategic Accounts Team.• Reviewed and analyzed sales-related expenses associated with order pipeline, bookings, and sales productivity. • Provided weekly, monthly and on-demand reports from SAP Orders System and Salesforce Pipeline System.• Developed and created reporting spreadsheets and executive summaries in order to track and manage SAP YTD actuals and pipeline pipeline data.• Maintained and enhanced sales force automation systems to effectively monitor and manage orders pipeline and forecasts.• Worked closely with Sales Account Managers to ensure projects are spending to plan and orders in pipeline are accurately tracked.• Developed scorecards for quarterly reporting.

• Interacted directly with Universals clients to obtain domestic and international hotel accommodations.• Maintain confidential client information such as financial and credit information.• Used multiple software such as Oracle and Sabre to book and track client reservations. • Arranged 3rd party payments.

• Developed the currently approved budget by formulating the monthly phased operating plan.• Analyzed plan, actual and forecast and reported monthly variances to Program Integration management.• Tracked commitments, obligations, accruals and disbursements.• Prepared budget spreadsheets for monthly and quarterly reviews with management.• Maintained JSC accounting systems including Spice and SAP to track cost reporting and funding.• Presented and defended budget estimates before fund reviewing and granting authorities.

• Ensured safety of bases, weapons, property and personnel.• Maintained physical security and protection of critical resources including multimillion dollar Air Force weapons systems in restricted areas.• Entry Controller at restricted areas containing nuclear resources.• Enforced rules and regulations according to military law and directives.• Performed SF functions during peacetime, contingency, and wartime operations.