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Los Angeles, California, US

Overseeing and optimizing the portfolio of company projects and initiatives for a leading Workforce Development Product Company. Collaborating closely with Executive leadership to translate strategic goals into actionable plans, ensuring alignment and execution both internally and through third-party partners.Key responsibilities include:Assembling and.

Irvine, California, US

• Managing a Salesforce product team that services 8 different brands across one Salesforce CRM instance and six Salesforce communities. Managing onshore and offshore development teams. Work cross functionality with.
• Providing program oversight and owning execution of key company and product initiatives. Making sure that the product development team is clear on objectives.
• Grow Salesforce adoption including defining and tracking product performance KPIs and analytics.
• Acting as the liaison between the business and my technical team by partnering directly with business to identify needs, create process, and ensure initiatives are successfully delivered and adopted to meet business.
• Developing and driving strategic initiatives across the Salesforce roadmaps and creating roadmaps for each product. Reviewed roadmaps with executives, stakeholders, and sponsors to get alignment.
• Manage Projects including assembling the project team, allocating resources, creating and maintain project plans and schedules, facilitating change control and change management, documenting and remediating risks, and.

Irvine, California, US

• Manage, coordinate & document various system implementations, integrations, and data migrations across the enterprise, including but not limited to Salesforce CRM, AEM, AWS, Intranet, Event bus, SQL,.Net & other vendor.
• Partnered with the Solution Strategy team to standup commercial and residential Salesforce communities under one SFDC organization. Continued to implement custom solutions across these different Salesforce Communities.
• Coordinated with multiple vendors to launch a new Agent CRM in Salesforce in conjunction with our new Franchisor website, including lead routing & assignment across multiple systems.
• Collaborated with internal development team, offshore development teams, and third-party development teams to create and manage project specific Jira boards and tickets, including assigning resources for development.

• Helped create new processes, procedures, metrics, and policies for newly established PMO for this financial IT company. Lead project teams in IT development from the requirement stage through the go-live/production.
• Teamed with the product team to create product roadmaps for the VMS Data and Universal Data product line.
• Partnered with the Project Planner to determine when to activate a project and to allocate available resources to all projects.
• Took over a project and helped bring it back on track from being 2 years late. The revenue of the project was over $3MM.
• Helped create from scratch a new product line with potential revenue of $50MM.
• Launched 20+ web enhancements, based on customer feedback or internal process feedback.

Aliso Viejo, CA, US

• Collaborated with cross-functional team leads in Marketing, Operations, Analytics, and Sales to execute short and long term projects in the commercial area of this quickly growing pharmaceutical company; Developed.
• Helped plan and execute the re-design of a current brand Healthcare website; which included managing the handoff of the design to the developers, preparing for PRC, and testing the staging site.
• Partnered with various Healthcare media plan and social networks, such as Doximity and Medscape, to deploy specific targeting ads and e-mails.
• Teamed with internal and external regulatory, medical affairs and compliance partners to help establish policies for social media setup, social media monitoring, and social media escalation processes.
• Facilitated the start of a Global Access Program for our main healthcare product by helping to define the scope, send out RFPs to multiple vendors, participating in vendor presentations, helping facilitate the final.
• Worked with a Brand Lead and fellow cross-functional team members to execute a 2017 Brand Planning process.

Houston, Texas, US

• Teamed with the Executive Management team to help develop, plan, and implement corporate initiatives in operations, IT, marketing, and/or merchandising using agile PM methodologies for this audio/video distributor.
• Implemented new freight rate system within our ERP system to help estimate freight costs.
• Helped design, plan, and QA iOS and Android applications, and collected, prioritized, and executed app enhancements to help increase user functionality post deployment.
• Re-architected server infrastructure from an obsolete 24 physical machine environment to a configuration running 7 physical serves.
• Implemented a new EDI platform and migrated existing vendor trading partners, adding additional vendor and retail partners as well as designing and delivering a first ever cross company ERP/EDI order integration that.
• Executed a corporate object to enter the direct to consumer market – contributed to the design and managed the design, development, and deployment of 2 public access web sites.

Brea, California, US

• Responsible for developing and updating the project schedule utilizing Microsoft Project and ensured launch of the CE-MS (Capillary Electrophoresis Mass Spectrometry) project for this medical device organization.
• Received Genius Award within first six months for the recognition of going above and beyond my job description to complete project goals and motivate team members.
• Used Microsoft Project to create a detailed schedule that the whole team used to complete tasks within the project.
• Incorporated daily visual management for production equipment, applications, Hardware Verification, System Verification, and Resource allocation

• Partnered with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Logistics, Quality, Supply Chain, and Suppliers to develop and execute display programs from conception to customers sell through or disposition for this large consumer.
• Managed the Back To School Season for Acne and Cleansing categories ensuring all displays met customer orders with minimum delays or cuts.
• Helped develop a consensus report revealing monthly forecast dollar amounts to be able to compare monthly misses that affected the yearly forecast.
• Received an additional 3 categories (Men, Specialty, and Hair) due to my successful management of the Acne and Cleansing categories.

• Met deadlines for contractual deliverables across multiple projects and activities by proactively identifying possible setbacks and working with cross-functional teams and department management for this contract lab.
• Helped develop and implement a new inventory management system to be more efficient and provide full control and traceability for all raw materials.
• Managed the only commercial manufacturing product which produced revenues of over 1.4 million dollars annually.
• Received promotion from Associate Project Manager to Project Manager within 11 months by performing above and beyond executive management’s expectations.

Clifton, NJ, US

• Lead direct development and implementation of new industrialized packaging solutions to help clients capture and increase market share for this pharmaceutical packaging company; Launched packaging of products new to.
• Successfully launched 20+ large projects for commercial production, clinical, and stabilities.
• Managed commercial account for a Fortune 500 company which produced revenues of over 3 million dollars annually.
• Was selected by co-workers and managers to train cross-functional departments on the company’s Trilogy software due to superior understanding of the MRP system.
• Helped test and implemented new SAP Beta software for small business and communicated suggestions and issues to developers.

Clifton, NJ, US

Direct development and implementation new industrialized packaging solutions; planned and scheduled production and supply chain requirements for promotions and activities; identified and secured packaging components; prime contact with customers and packaging suppliers; provided input and take possession of key business data; worked with cross-functional.

Participated in the formulation of operating policies to improve and maintain inventory management and return on investment; manage BPR; manage BQM; reconciliation of accounts payables issues as they pertain to warehouse errors and local site purchasing; write debits and credits associated with returns and receiving errors; assist in satisfying both.

Facilitated product selection of scheduled and walk-in showroom customers; used proper forms to assure consistent records of selections; maintained current product knowledge; assisted customers on showroom floor; handled incoming showroom phone calls; promoted customer service; developed new business leads; supported efforts of outside sales associates.

Provided support to the sales consultant; trained new administrators; ensured all sales and service objectives were met; assisted in collection of CODs; promoted a close relationship with the warehouse personnel by maintaining and achieving operational excellence; entered purchase orders for showroom sales; faxed quotes to contractors and homeowners.