Jimi Meuse Email & Phone Number

Savannah, Georgia, United States

Just In Time Management Services [JiTMS] is a consulting company in the business process, project management, and financial management verticals, servicing startup to growth mode companies. Our clients have been diverse groups that encompass the healthcare to retail to construction sectors, and include multiple backend accounting systems. In total, we help companies meet their market objectives with smarter executable strategy while providing a strong financial and operational foundation for their growing businesses.JiTMS works with differing levels of clients that typically have 7 to 8 figure revenues, are in growth mode, and are primarily in the SMB size with sub 200 employees. Our role is to assess the existing business, establish financial and operational controls, educate on processes, implement best practices and manage outcomes. We also help companies to achieve their business goals by streamlining operations which allows them to focus on their core competency for their customers.

Exton, Pennsylvania, United States

As a Senior Consultant with Energage, Jimi specializes in working with fast-growth companies to enable performance-driven cultures and streamline process efficiency. She brings together her strong financial and project management skills with the latest neuroscience research on decision-making and leadership to create and capitalize on opportunities and make work more meaningful in turn saving clients millions of dollars. In addition to helping young companies exceed revenue goals, she assists long-standing companies navigate the new demands of workplace culture and their impact on performance. Jimi’s success in fostering driving process improvement and fostering leadership alignment, manifests in bottom line ROI and increased employee engagement across industries, transcending company capitalization from venture backed start-ups to billion dollar multinational organizations.

Savannah, Georgia Area

RAILS MACHINE was a software development and hardware hosting company in the Ruby on Rails space. Their primary market verticals included application management, tuning and optimization, performance monitoring, application support, backup and redundancy, automated management of configuration and deployment, as well as hardware hosting for the Ruby open source full-stack web application framework.Initially my role as CFO/COO was to put in place financial controls and accounting processes, including banking relationships and renegotiating associated fees/lending rates, lease agreements, and payroll for a growth company that needed to scale its business. Once the financial controls were put into place, I built the operational control processes to manage the customer service needs, project management for volumetric client contracts, and build core infrastructure processes for the business verticals. This also included working with the executive team to put in place the strategic plans to help the company manage and scale its business. The company was then subsequently able to package components of its business for sale.

Verisgn [$VRSN with US$1.2B in revenue] bought the former HOsystems for US$358M after a very successful run as an independant wireless billing company. Upon the acquisition, Verisign's new Communications Services Division encompassed Information Services, Security Services, as well as it included the Commerce division which oversees products and services of telephony asset management, including billing, digital content management, intelligent database services, as well as connectivity and interoperability. In May of 2004, $VRSN created a new position of Senior Manager for Program Management, whose role encompassed delivering the Verisign Billing & OSS billing system to at first a single client worth US$150M+ in revenue over 5 years, and ultimately the entire wireless billing customers. This role also included strategic critical path analysis/planning, client communications, and managing a team of project managers, data analysts, and business and system analyst. The role also includes UAT planning, defining SOW's, interface analysis, documenting business process re-engineering (BPR), managing communication with the engineering teams, and having administrative responsibilities over the processes involved in delivering the product within specification to market in the required time. Lastly, this role encompassed managing the development processes of three teams across multiple time zones, internationally, and ensuring that all executed according to the strategic plan.

Verisgn [$VRSN with US$1.2B in revenue] bought the former HOsystems for US$358M after a very successful run as an independant wireless billing company. Upon the acquisition, Verisign's new Communications Services Division encompassed Information Services, Security Services, as well as it included the Commerce division which oversees products and services of telephony asset management, including billing, digital content management, intelligent database services, as well as connectivity and interoperability. The acquiring company $VRSN asked that I take on the expanded role as Product Marketing Manager, building market strategies for the development of Verisign Billing & OSS billing system. This included product positioning, product marketing, and setting the processes for creating, communicating and delivering value to our current and potential customers. In kind, my team worked on positioning our products to align with market needs while delivering on the sales process of moving our customers closer to making the purchase decision. Our marketing team in essence helped to facilitate the sale by producing strategic placement of the $VRSN products while providing the needed material for the Sales team to close deals.

H.O. Systems was a software company in the wireless billing space. Their model of Service Beyond Software, as well as the move towards garnering revenue in the data space for their wireless carrier customers, led this company through explosive growth from US$16M in rev to over US$128M in less than three years.After turning around the Customer Service group, I was asked to take on the expanding role of Implementations. In this new role, my responsibilities included oversight of all client facing and internal projects, alignment of project plans with internal road maps, as well established business processes for communication and documentation with the clients. This role also managed the team of implementers, as well as managed the communication of status dashboards to the executive group.

H.O. Systems was a software company in the wireless billing space. Their model of Service Beyond Software, as well as the move towards garnering revenue in the data space for their wireless carrier customers, led this company through explosive growth from US$16M in rev to over US$128M in less than three years. After having put processes in place and executing a strategic plan for the Implementation team, I was asked to take on the role of Client Services Director. This position encompassed the management of a 50 person Client Services team working with over 70 large scale wireless carriers, while at the same time achieving 100% success in meeting the strategic goals of 'service beyond software' by supporting each client's long-term business plan. Responsibilities included executing SLAs [Service Level Agreements] with the clients, managing teams and individuals, developing processes and procedures for operational support, as well as defining customer tracker tool requirements.

Savannah, Georgia Area

H.O. Systems was a software company in the wireless billing space. Their model of Service Beyond Software, as well as the move towards garnering revenue in the data space for their wireless carrier customers, led this company through explosive growth from US$16M in rev to over US$128M in less than three years.Because of the successes as a Business Analyst, I took a lead position within the Implementations team working as a Project Manager. This new role brought proven expertise to provide project management of assets and process variables related to converting a wireless carrier's legacy billing system to H.O.System's billing software. This included identifying client requirements, change management and training, system configuration, and analyzing process variables in order to achieve successful rollout of software to the client.

Savannah Georgia

H.O. Systems was a software company in the wireless billing space. Their model of Service Beyond Software, as well as the move towards garnering revenue in the data space for their wireless carrier customers, led this company through explosive growth from US$16M in rev to over US$128M in less than three years. The Business Analyst was responsible for support of multiple, large-scale business applications by proactively managing enhancement requests, change control efforts, business requirements specs for software development life cycle. Including but not limited to coordination of functionality gaps between the legacy and new systems, translating business requirements into functional specifications and effectively communicate to business users and developers while interfacing with internal customers to identify key questions relating to business needs, information priorities, and how the information will be utilized.

SNF Holding Company is a European owned conglomerate in the vertically integrated chemical processing industry. With over US$200M in revenue and 20 plants in the USA, SNF Holding Company is one of the largest leading producers and suppliers of water-soluble polymers.Responsibilities included oversight and management of the accounting department and was personally responsible for producing monthly consolidated financials of the 20 chemical plants plus financials for main company on site, Chemtall. The role included putting accounting and business processes in place, maintenance and commission distribution to European vendors, as well as establishing accounting relationships and business accounting procedures with General Managers in each of the plants. Responsible for overall inventory cost accounting by plant, annual financial audits by Price Waterhouse, and managed self-insured medical and health plans.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

National Security Analysts Inc was a Government contractor providing professional and technical services to federal, state and local governments. This included contracts with the Air National Guard to develop and determine long range plans, as well as testing processes for Tuscon Air Force Base, and contracts like managing transport operations for Oakland Army Base and Palatka County Florida. The CFO/VP role was responsible for operations, personnel and program management in offices across six states. The role extended to management and supervision of eight direct reports in the areas of corporate and governmental accounting, financial analysis, costing and pricing, and contracts management. As a member of the executive team, I also led the assessment of potential business ventures and constructed financial models which quantified the viability of potential market opportunities.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

B.S., Finance

Tqm Certificate, Total Quality Management