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Silver Spring, Md, Us

• Department Team Lead of pricing, bid coordination, and RFP response; trained multiple Analysts on the responsibilities of the role and teach the organizational mission.• Lead the development and management of strategic pricing systems and tools to enhance competitive analysis for future initiatives.• Collected, cleaned, and validated large datasets from multiple sources, ensuring data integrity and accuracy.• Developed and maintained dashboards and reports to visualize key metrics and performance indicators, facilitating data-driven decision-making processes.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into analytical solutions, driving operational efficiency and process improvements.• Build long-standing vendor relationships by improving business partner, pricing & industry feedback.

Mclean, Va

• Develop and maintain strategic pricing systems and tools for use in future competitive analysis.• Determine proposal concept by identifying and clarifying client criteria; studying requests for proposal (RFPs); attending strategy meetings, ensuring high-quality deliverables.• Develop customer engagement materials and proposals by assembling information including project nature, objectives/outcomes, implementation, methods, timetable, staffing, budget, standards of performance, and evaluation; writing, revising, and editing drafts including executive summaries, conclusions, and organization credentials.• Perform cost/price analysis to evaluate different strategies and "what-if" scenarios.• Review all pricing data submitted by project staff and external entities for accuracy, completeness, consistency, reasonableness. Facilitate changes as necessary.• Participate in pricing review with upper management and coordinate with senior staff to determine pricing structure and strategy.

Mclean, Va

• Product specialist overlay for Fiber, Conferencing, Hosted VoIP and traditional voice services.• Provide subject matter expertise for ARG's consultants for all pricing requests.▪ Review and summarize client invoices, generating strategic, cost-saving recommendations for clients..▪ Developed multiple pricing resources & configuration tools to streamline RFP turnaround. • Interface with various provider partners daily to satisfy RFQs for requested configurations and solutions• Create pricing proposals, comparing current and proposed services, and providing quality assurance.• Update and maintain pricing and services collateral for all provider partners.

Bethesda, Maryland

▪ Back-end system testing for multiple health information and journal cataloging systems including: DCMS, LSTRC, MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, TeamSite, & PubMed.▪ Implemented and maintained LinkOut, a service facilitating access to relevant online resources in order to extend, clarify, and supplement information found in NCBI databases.▪ Developed manageable HTML templates to ensure format integrity and 508-compliance for NLM websites.▪ Coded hard-copy information into electronic data to be used during development and QA phases for the Data Creation and Maintenance System (DCMS).▪ Translated over 15,000 citation titles in multiple languages (Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian) for use in improvement projects of NLM’s databases.▪ Managed and completed multiple long-term improvement projects under strict deadlines with scarce supervision.▪ Performed secretarial duties (answering multiline phones, distribution of mail, emails, and greeting at front desk).▪ Drafted deliverable reports, weekly correspondence and statistical documentation for project leads.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics

Associate'S Degree, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Ethics Club, Computer Applications Mentoring

Business Technology Administration, Information Systems