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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 120,000 searches• 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 real estate developers, effectively delivering viable solutions in a timely matter

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. • Create ad hoc queries for application investigation and data analysis.• Collaborate with other state agencies on system enhancements and testing.

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 projects.• 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.• Actively participated in the largest talent attraction event in Michigan history held at Ford Field in Detroit.• Collaborated with multiple colleges and universities and designed/documented a single talent repository solution integrated with MiTalent.org. • Presented live demonstrations of MiTalent.org including talent programs and initiatives to hundreds of employers across the entire state.• Acted as main Business Analyst for employer and job seeker support on MiTalent.org providing business support input, system specification documentation, test case generation and user testing.• Defined and documented large applicant tracking system integrated with MiTalent.org.• Developed ad hoc queries for data analysis and metric reporting for team dashboard and company scorecard.

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 notice.• 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 requiring software changes.• 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 department to educate representatives on client business processes and changes to standard product.• 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.• Performed employee performance reviews for assigned Systems Engineers. Assisted Systems engineers in performance improvement, career direction and technical training.

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 parts for future GM vehicles. • 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 material scrap, inventory and required warehouse floor space. Assumed all tasks as Project Manager of 18 Systems Engineers including analyzing and documenting customer requirements, creating and maintaining a project workbook, gaining and allocating engineer and hardware resources, assigning and monitoring tasks to the project team using MS Project and tracking project to close. Project nominated for “People Make Quality Happen Award” saving over $11 million annually corporate wide.• 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 groups. Analyzed and presented monthly run time statistics reports to EDS and GM management to identify areas of system performance/cost improvement. Developed and implemented run time improvement efforts.• Started career with EDS as Systems Engineer providing software application support for an accounting system at the Chevrolet division of GM.