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Columbus, Ga, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

VU Venture Partners (https://lnkd.in/dy6FR_aZ), a multi-stage and multi-sector investment fund with offices in San Francisco, New York City, and Hong Kong. VU's team is led by J. Skyler Fernandes, Andrew Zalasin, and James Zhang - top-performing investors with 45+ yrs of collective VC experience and many successful investments such as Beyond Meat, Facebook, Uber, Twitter, Venmo, Oculus, Wish, Oscar, etc. We invest in pre-seed through Series B rounds.

Responsibilities Include:• Managing all aspects of Oracle Human Capital Management (ERP) package delivery. • Software evaluation and selection.• Business development.• Project reviews including risk assessment and aversion.Clients include:• Larimer County Board of Commission, Ft. Collins, Colorado• Cincinnati School Board, Cincinnati, Ohio • International Labor Organization, Geneva, Switzerland• World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland• World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland• City of St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, Florida• City of Miami, Miami, Florida• City of Memphis, Tennessee• National Oilwell Varco, Aberdeen, Scotland• Owens and Minor Inc., Richmond, Virginia• Wood Group Mustang, Houston, Texas

Edison, New Jersey, Us

Responsible for formulating and implementing the company’s vision, mission, and overall direction with a $20M P&L.• Collaborated with the CEO and senior management in setting and driving organizational vision and operational excellence.• Translated strategy into actionable goals for performance, growth and implemented organization-wide goal setting, performance management, and annual operating planning.• Led the software development and implementation of the overall organization's strategy. • Oversaw day-to-day administrative and operational functions, emphasizing product development, client delivery, and support teams.• Instilled structure and discipline to the development and delivery process in an agile environment• Established policies that promote company culture and vision.• Oversaw company operations and employee baseline productivity and enhancements, built a highly inclusive culture, ensuring team members thrive and organizational outcomes are met.• Analyzed internal operations and identified opportunities for improvement.• Ensured effective recruiting, onboarding, professional development, performance management, and retention.• Manage relationships with partners/vendors.• Spearheaded strategies to steer the company’s future in a positive direction.• Drive the company’s operating capabilities and efficiencies to surpass customer satisfaction, retention, and company goals.• Delegated responsibilities to ensure staff members grow as capable participants.

Edison, New Jersey, Us

• Collaborated on market research, branding, product solutions, customer experience, public relations, and other services related.• Provided vision, execution, leadership, and system implementation oversight.• Designed programs and systems to improve the client experience.• Sought client and partner feedback to address opportunities.• Collaborated with all teams to ensure meeting annual Client Satisfaction Scores.• Engaged the organization in managing client relationships, revenue, and profit.• Created a persistent focus on the client in the actions the company takes.• Drove the organization to work together for optimum client experience delivery.• Facilitated the development of the accountability action chain, established the approaches and implementation of research to understand client loyalty and return on investment (ROI).• Worked with leaders to identify baseline metrics for tracking interaction with clients.• Drove tracking and reporting to get to reliability in critical interactions.• Led the product development and other delivery teams. • Built relationships with key clients and influencers. • Drove continuous improvement and champion positive change to improve service levels and increase client satisfaction. • Measured and observe client usage and satisfaction and incorporate those findings into product and service developments

Assisted with business development activities and implementation assignments to support the business objectives of sales, marketing, and service professionals at a national level. Responsible for establishing strategy, goals and objectives for the Practice within the guidelines of the Business Unit. Responsible for setting guidelines and protocol for the Delivery of services within the Practice.Worked closely with sales and marketing departments to develop targets, strategy, budgets, proposals and alliances.Coordinated proposal development process for targeted opportunities.Responsible for ensuring client satisfaction on engagements.Responsible for account management including quality of deliverables on time and on budget.Managed teams and mentored staff. Aligned organizational actions to support both short/long-term key financial and business metrics (revenue growth, market penetration).Responsible for practice P&L management and accountability for revenue forecasting, salary administration, and gross margin Responsible for overall practice management including performance evaluations, career development, training, etc.

Assisted the founder/CEO of an SaaS start-up to shape the strategic direction of the company. Responsible for decisions related to strategic alliances, business development, product/service definition, operational issues, and financial control. Developed the corporate infrastructure to ensure rapid, profitable execution of the company's concept. Assisted in developing strategic plans and long-term direction for the company.Oversaw the development of a business plan and assisted in the effort to raise investment capital.Developed and managed company operations to support business objectivesIdentified, structured and negotiated relationships with strategic business partners.Established plans for monitoring performance of business partners against contracts.Established and maintained standards for company practices.Recruited for open positions within the executive management team.Assisted with financing and investment presentations.Developed client services infrastructure to support company growth initiatives.

Miami, Florida, Us

Managed all aspects of Oracle HRMS/Payroll software package delivery and development life cycles. Directed the successful implementation of Oracle HRMS release 10.7 and 11.0.3 applications during all phases of client engagement including requirements gathering, interface definition, system configuration, testing, training, production launch, and transition to support. Provided assistance in client culture changes and resource planning. Managed all resources within the project team to ensure that all client commitments and business goals related to implementation were achieved. Provided conversion / migration assistance, configuration management and general development consulting.

Managed the implementation of InPower’s Human Resources and Payroll System.Developed project plans, managed project resources, schedules, task assignment, and client’s expectations concerning deliverables, performance, maintenance, design and costs. Conducted periodic status meetings with the client and the project team to assess progress against the plan. Evaluated business processes, conducted needs assessment, gathered requirements and participated in process re-engineering initiatives.

Lead Payroll Consultant for Metro Dade County Government, Miami and Ceridian Employer Services in the implementation of Tesseract’s HRMS application.Provided consultation support for Human Resources, Payroll and Benefits System.Facilitated Joint Application Design sessions.Gathered business requirements.Mapped business processes to requirements.Configured and tested application based on business requirements.Designed on-line and batch user exits, internal and external interfaces, workflow procedures, system customization, conversion, system integration, testing, and user acceptance.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Managed a cross-functional team of over two-dozen functional and technical analysts enhancing and fine-tuning Tesseract’s Human Resources, Payroll and Benefits System in a production environment. Responsible for overall system maintenance, the application of patches and system upgrades.Responsible for the production of paychecks for over 90,000 employees and retirees. Responsible for the production of W2s, 1099R and tax reports to governmental agencies. Facilitated Joint Application Design sessions.Gathered business requirements.Mapped business processes to requirements.Configured and tested application based on business requirements.Developed detailed functional system and program specifications.Led the acceptance testing effort

Coordinated the budgeting process for the Corporate Office. Provided training and technical support to users of the budgeting system. Maintained a Corporate Expense Management Information System used for expense tracking, allocation and production of periodic management accounting reports. Conducted system analysis, design and acceptance testing for various budgeting and expense tracking applications

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Managment Information Systems

Bachelor'S Degree, Management Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics

Bachelor’S Degree, Economics

Bachelor’S Degree, Quantitative Methods And Operations Research