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Santa Barbara, CA, US

Santa Barbara, CA, US

• Managed a team including portfolio managers, program managers, and business systems analysts; owned the technology portfolio and multiple product teams providing business solutions through processes and technology.
• Product Management: Led the order fulfillment and returns product teams supporting the commercial, business operations, and accounting functions. Each team leveraged a prioritized backlog in a cross-functional.
• Portfolio Management: Built the technology organization’s prioritized roadmap and managed resource capacity. Owned portfolio processes, progressing initiatives from conception through delivery. Evolved and optimized.
• Project and Program Management: Led a team of senior program managers to manage large-scale, complex initiatives.
• ERP Implementation: Led the program management function of a two year ERP (SAP) implementation to transform enterprise business processes. Led the subject matter tracks for order-to-cash and returns processes. Launched.

Santa Barbara, CA, US

• Built, organized, and led a team of 40 globally distributed team members to operate and streamline business processes around hardware fulfillment. The goal was to deliver the perfect order by meeting customer delivery.
• Established a framework for objectives and key results to better prioritize operational fulfillment improvements to drive efficiency and customer satisfaction. Implemented numerous enhancements to improve key results.
• Maintained operational standards for global fulfillment across all sales channels.
• Managed all payment processing, including fraud management.

Santa Barbara, CA, US

• Responsible for building and running the growth driver project roadmap for the e-commerce business, driving millions in incremental annual revenue.
• Managed the live chat and phone sales businesses, delivering sustained profitable growth by increasing contributed income and reducing costs. Set strategy and drive tactics.
• Built the sales operations team and transformed business processes from reactive chaos into a measured, more efficient framework.
• Fostered high performing teams with a customer-first mindset.
• Defined strategy and built business capabilities in support of geo expansion of e-commerce.
• Reduced operating expenses through vendor changes, contract renegotiations, and process improvements.

Santa Barbara, CA, US

• Technology lead for all things related to the end-to-end sales and fulfillment processes. Sonos was in late stage startup mode, so duties and ownership spanned project management, product ownership, operations, and.
• ERP and E-Commerce Product Owner: Led a product team to drive commercial sales. Embedded Scrum and organized the team to accelerate technical delivery.
• Order To Cash Lead: Responsible for business user stories and technical flows across finance, sales, and logistics, applying a new enterprise business process framework to re-implement Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains.
• Managed order-to-cash business priorities and program portfolio for all changes to the ERP and e-commerce platforms. Managed all technical projects.
• Technical Project Manager: Delivered a new platform to support a quickly growing direct sales business (B2C), as well as the online dealer channel (B2B). Drove implementation of EDI with mass retail partners.
• Joined Sonos as Project Manager and Business Analyst in the Business Systems Group, and promoted to Senior Product Owner.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Operations lead for a field-based team of 200 medical science liaisons. Managed projects, led communications, ran process improvement efforts, technology deployments, training, CRM (customer relationship management).
• Project managed medical information conversion for the roll out of an external medical information web site for health care professionals.
• Led process improvement initiative to streamline the management of interactions with health professionals for medical liaisons using a custom CRM tool.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

Served as lead analyst for the offshore R&D global resourcing initiative. Provided system assessments to support R&D processes with offshore resources. Led the transition on site in Mumbai, India.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Three year rotational leadership development program.
• RFID Program Manager, Global RFID Service, Supply Chain IT (Rotation 3).- Initiated and delivered a real time location system pilot to track the location and movement of assets.
• Business Consultant, Medical Information Strategy and Consulting (Rotation 2).- Oversaw development and approval of a $4M business project for a content management system (CMS).
• Project Manager and Consultant, Collaborative Computing Implementation (Rotation 1).- Provided training services to R&D business teams on enterprise collaboration tools and best practices.

Santa Barbara, CA, US

PULSE is GSK’s initiative empowering employees to make a difference in communities leveraging professional skills during a six month assignment with a non-profit.Direct Relief in Santa Barbara, CA. Five months as project manager for an ERP implementation (SAP).

London, England, GB

PULSE is GSK’s initiative empowering employees to make a difference in communities leveraging professional skills during a six month assignment with a non-profit.Leonard Cheshire Disability in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Seven weeks developing a growth strategy for serving people with disability.

Zurich, CH

Drove a server migration project to reduce costs.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Developed JAVA based software solutions for Sun Remote Services.

Masters, Engineering Management

Bs, Electrical Engineering

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