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• PLM Consultant specializing in Oracle Cloud products; Product Development Cloud, Product Hub Cloud, Quality Management Cloud, Innovation Management Cloud
• Manage Design Workshops for new multi-tier projects and also post go-live enhancements
• Manage delivery of technical work for all project phases (CRP, UAT, SIT, GL)
• Enforce Quality standards for testing and verification of custom designs, automations, integrations
• Manage technical and functional deliverables for project delivery and archives

Greater Boston Area

• Research prospects’ operations and perform live discovery sessions with prospects to understand current state, executive alignment and KBRs
• Align prospective customers’ goals and KBRs with Cloud solutions and perform live demonstrations to prove out the solution set
• Strategize messaging and content delivery with sales teams in order to show ‘the art of the possible’
• Customize and prepare customer-centric demos with new and/or existing data
• Support continuous sales organization growth by developing coworkers and organizing enablement sessions

Greater Boston Area

• Coordinated EDI projects to automate the billing, auditing and cost reporting of vendor data, reducing administrative efforts by over 20 hours/week
• Managed a monthly UAT cycle for invoicing screens and approval workflows
• Owned and strengthened a technical process that fairly allocates about $1.3M in monthly freight expenses among all shipped assets on all Orders to capitalize expenses on first deployments
• Complete A/B analysis of carrier rates by freight lane and service type
• Continue as Invoicing Lead for Freight Team

Cambridge MA, United States

• Audit charges from Akamai’s Network Vendors and Freight Carriers and administer all billing functions.
• Recorded over $646,998.00 in savings through credits, along with even further savings by decreasing MRC.
• Assigned to lead the freight invoicing team, which included the following: - Continuous improvement and documentation of auditing, taxation, payment and reporting processes - Responsible for accurately processing over.

• Completed audits of Akamai’s vendor accounts to verify colocation services and to dispute unwarranted items. Saved Akamai a minimum of $30,000.00
• Audited complex invoices up to $1M against contracts
• Resolved colocation issues by interfacing with vendors and coordinating with various Networks teams
• Manage updates to Contracts database to support financial projections and commitments
• Led the turnover of Network Freight accounts and invoices
• Assigned the on-boarding of new employees, including training how to process and audit Akamai’s network invoices

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business And Enterprise Management

Activities and Societies: Sigma Pi, Project Pumpkin Leadership Committee

High School Diploma