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Kirkland, Wa, Us

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Provide strategic guidance on business transformation activities to enable firms to meet their strategic and financial goals. Special focus on Startup, PE, and turnaround. Act as thought leader, advisor, and head interim leadership roles.

Boston, Ma, Us

Graduated with a Specialization in Leadership & Management. Management and Business Administration.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Took over previous Director's shared services team to drive cross-functional strategy execution (finance, MarOps GTM, license stores, supply chain-logistics, store operations, analytics). Led team to create and communicate organizational visions and business strategies, transformations and uplevel capabilities, prioritize critical pain points, and execute program management leadership. Diagnosed and distilled complex organizational challenges to clear goals, deliverables, and structures. Adjusted to changes and managed ambiguity.•Assessed store operations to architect strategic $500M / year runrate productivity roadmap, gaining buy-in from stakeholders and VPs, resulting in adoption and 24% ($120M) completion at business handoff.•Leveraged design thinking to lead and challenge cross-functional teams to discover and implement productivity improvements, enabling 6M hours / year reallocation to customer and revenue-generating activities.•Built and implemented end-to-end, scalable operating model securing shared commitments with VPs through listening, facilitation, and collaborative assessment while embedding CI and best practices to improve adoption, engagement, and execution.•Catalyzed team to drive CI in productivity, revenue, and cost (G&A) by leveraging finance toolkit and design thinking, increasing team results from $12M to $50M / year while creating go-forward capabilities to uplevel business performance. •Led redesign of product development process, ensured pipeline governance, and reduced commercialization timelines by months without shortcuts or increased costs by guiding matrixed product team to innovate and uplevel product development framework (global governance, portfolio tooling, PMO visibility, end-to-end gates).•Coached, mentored, and inspired employees across enterprise to foster growth, promoting employees into roles with increased responsibility and certifying ~50% of organization-wide kaizen leaders.Bravo Awards (8)

Seattle, Wa, Us

Teamed with business units (BUs) to implement improvement projects. Facilitated workshops and coached businesses. Applied root cause analysis, design thinking, journey mapping, TPS, and other CI tools to resolve problems and optimize results.•Assessed and led multiple workstreams aligned with business goals, delivering measurable return on investment (ROI).•Developed measurement framework, ensuring team-wide skill in demonstrating return to value with validated financials, which cultivated business confidence in benefit results.•Designed and delivered CI training to business customers to accelerate participation and results, training hundreds of employees and mentoring and coaching lean practitioners to give them new problem-solving lens and capabilities.

As a tech startup entrepreneur I executed a vision from an earned secret to transform the way people communicate and share around TV and movies experiences. My app attracted global users and received positive feedback from the tech community and media. I managed all aspects of the startup journey, from ideation to exit, including finding product-market fit, building a strong team, preseed funding to series A gap, scaling the business. I pioneered first of kind customer experiences including “Dark Mode”, watchlists, and adding an augmented layer of the content, like Easter Eggs, locations, and more.Includes: building the business model, product and technology roadmap 0 to 1, funding, finding product fit, prioritizing, managing demand, developing strategic partnerships.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Guided E2E operating model (intake, prioritization, assignment, ETL, modeling, production, maintenance) for 8-member data science COE with marketing focus to drive insights and impacts across business. Measured to ensure models achieved results. Prioritized resources / team to solve the right business problems.•Partnered with VPs to prioritize and undertake initiatives aligned with business objectives, strategies, use cases, and customer scenarios, employing modeling techniques, datasets, and analytics toolkit to solve real-world problems, including customer engagement, B2B sales, global trade, and user behaviors on core products (Office, Xbox, Visual Studio).•Diagnosed complex, high-impact business problems with large and varied datasets, guiding product features, release cadences, marketing spend, user needs, and capability enhancements.•Constructed business data transformation roadmaps, building data-ready, future-focused organizational capabilities to maximize business opportunities.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managed global team of 30 black belts and IT PMO of Six Sigma projects to accelerate strategy execution, transformation, and business impact across key pillars.•Conceptualized and developed scalable client engagement methods and procedures, consulted businesses in identifying, targeting, and overcoming critical technology challenges while achieving scope, timeline, and budget goals.•Championed process-before-build first approach, journey mapping, and scenario-focused engineering, informing IT capabilities for faster development sprints and cycle times to deliver value.

A charitable trust fund with a mission dedicated to enhancing hiking opportunities inWashington State with grants for trail building and maintenance projects. Oversaw the distribution of capital investment programs to deliver the largest impact to constituents.

Washington Trails Association's mission is to preserve, enhance, and promote hiking opportunities in Washington state through collaboration, education, advocacy and volunteer trail maintenance.

Directed WTA's Advocacy Program. This included shaping public policy strategy and legislative roadmap, prioritizing, managing stakeholders including land management agencies both state and federal, listening to members, futuring, building coalitions, and knowing when to push forward to win. The culmination of my term was the reform of the state NOVA Program. Previously, this law had been a 30 year problem for hikers and trails. In 2000, Advocacy prioritized this as our critical focus. And in 2004, we succeeded and reformed the law. The new law allocated funds commensurate with tax payments--and increased funds for hikers dramatically, and decreased funds for projects that had hurt hikers and trails. Combined, this moved $10 million per biennium.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Drove IT capital project investment model approval, governance process transformation, and implementation of $250M / year portfolio as consultant to Office of CIO (Microsoft). Ensured ROI and tested, evaluated, and provided due diligence on proposals to measure impact and increase technical and non-technical teams ability to deliver on promise.•Constructed, administered, and monitored capital investment end-to-end lifecycle, using finance experience to gain CIO’s confidence in capital portfolio governance.•Integrated projects into coherent capabilities and delivery roadmaps, driving cost efficiencies and faster business release cadence to allow BUs to leverage new capabilities and enable business value realization faster.•Navigated matrixed teams through multifaceted change management activities (ADKAR), providing incentives, tools, capabilities, and leadership support for successful participant implementation and acceptance.•Led C-level / VP-level stakeholder meetings and presentations, spearheading and steering difficult conversations to secure and sustain agreement on capital project management governance model from ideation to release.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Deployed Lean Six Sigma enterprise wide to execute turnaround strategy to this Fortune 500. Developed program goals and commitments, building credibility, trust and shared goals. Gained priceless management experience on how to deploy a program. What works, what does not, and why. Developed Kaizen PMO as a tool to accelerate breakthroughs with design thinking, and to create highly effective teams to implement and sustain innovation.Skills Used:•Ability to create and install organizational design, structures, goals, incentives.•Strong facilitation, negotiation, client management, and C-Level presentation skills.•Strong interpersonal skills, and ability to lead and motivate teams and groups.

Us

Provided strategic, analytical, and consultative expertise to drive high-profile, company-wide initiatives and to improve customer facing processes both bricks and clicks. Used extensive knowledge of the organization's operations to develop initiatives to improve customer retention, profitability, productivity, and efficient backroom processes. These include: Loyalty & Retention (P&L responsibility), web and store strategy, A/B testing-bill presentation, and backroom process simplification.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Founding volunteer to establish quick wins on the ground for the MTS, to solidify stakeholder support for Jim Ellis’ MTS vision, and create alternate narrative and future for the Greenway corridor. Included restoration and trail maintenance, and organizing initial Greenway excursions.

Graduated. Specialization In Leadership And Management., Management And Business Administration

Graduated. Masters., Executive Mba

Graduated. Bachelor Of Arts., Economics