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Lansing, Michigan Area

• Establish best practices for site research and asset based strategy development and present information to Local Economic Development Organizations, Utility Partners, and State Departments
• Establish and manage Michigan’s Premier Sites initiative used in marketing attractive real estate opportunities to site consultants across the country
• Collaborate with utility companies and State Departments to establish and build their inventory of development ready sites
• Management of Michigan’s commercial real estate database and proposal center. With over 16,000 listings, this database served as a primary access point for individuals from 100 different countries and has received over.
• Establish and maintain broker relationships, identify market trends and hurdles inhibiting development, and generate leads by conducting 12 retention visits per month
• Manage responses to Requests for Information (RFI) and Requests for Proposals (RFP) by collaborating with MEDC’s internal teams, various State Departments, Utility partners, Local Economic Development partners, and.

Lansing, Michigan Area

• Manage daily operations of Pure Michigan Talent Connect (MiTalent.org).
• Gather business requirements from Michigan local and state government stakeholders, agencies and employers to systematically accommodate matching talent with opportunities.
• Manage application project releases requiring project activity measurement, evaluation, reports and notification to state and local workforce/economic development stakeholders.
• Present system features to hundreds of employers statewide through in-person demonstrations and webinars.
• Communicate project status to all stakeholders.
• Present system updates and initiatives at statewide Michigan Works! Agency quarterly meetings.

Lansing, Michigan Area

• Represented MEDC talent initiatives at employer site retention efforts while collaborating with local economic development partners to deliver comprehensive business attraction and retention packages.
• Attended local economic development meetings with potential employers to discuss talent related attraction programs and initiatives.
• Assumed role as Regional Talent Connector for Region 8 providing MEDC talent program and initiative updates to local economic development stakeholders while learning about local initiatives and attraction/retention.
• Provided customized regional talent reports for MEDC internal business attraction projects.
• Managed a $150,000 STEM grant including a statewide grant informational meeting with Michigan’s top universities and colleges for equal distribution across all economic development regions.
• Managed multiple talent attraction events targeted toward attracting high demand out of state talent to Michigan.

Lansing, Michigan Area

• Autonomously conducted residential and commercial site analysis as required by the tax forfeiture statute mandated by Public Act 206 of 1893.
• Utilizing legal descriptions, mapping and GPS, measured and accurately located properties to determine the occupancy status of structures, post notice on unoccupied structures or meet with occupants to explain the.
• Consulted with county Treasurer, Equalization, Assessor, DPW and GIS Departments for additional property analysis.
• Applied Business Analysis experience toward the design of a tablet application to replace current paper based method of collecting and reporting information while in the field.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

• Collaborated with builders, contractors, local and statewide units of government, lenders, appraisers, civil engineers on residential property development projects
• Managed complex Lake Michigan real estate site condo development project involving MDEQ, MDNR, County Health, County Zoning and DPW
• Create and establish best practices and procedures to track operations effectiveness and identify potential process improvements.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

• Managed order-to-delivery supply chain execution software implementations for clients in a diverse set of industries including automotive, railroad, food distribution and music distribution.
• Analyzed areas where standard software product inadequately fulfilled client needs. Worked with client distribution management to suggest business process changes to align with standard product or define areas.
• Applied standard procedures to transition implemented accounts into a supportive capacity. Worked with internal customer service department to ensure smooth transition. Provided internal training to customer service.
• Worked with clients to develop project Scope of Work, estimated cost and risk analysis.
• Monitored and reported project schedule, budget, cost and performance to senior management for medium to large project budgets.
• Estimated, quoted and ordered required site hardware as well as establishing proper configuration for client business requirements.

Greater Detroit Area

• Managed the design and implementation of an experimental part procurement system that provides GM experimental engineering a method of scheduling, ordering, receiving, shipping and bar coded tracking of experimental.
• Managed large project to convert and merge 6 divisional General Motors (GM) legacy systems into a single ERP supply chain solution for just-in-time delivery of engineering materials resulting in the reduction of.
• Acted as both project leader and application programmer to maintain and improve a corporate wide financial system. Distributed maintenance communications and coordinated system upgrades/maintenance with affected.
• Started career with EDS as Systems Engineer providing software application support for an accounting system at the Chevrolet division of GM.