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Bridgewater works closely with utility clients where we offer a full compliment of services that address Top-of-Mind issues that businesses face today. We provide thoughtful insights into key business challenges such as, developing strategies and tactics that will address each challenge and chart roadmaps to enable and deploy change. Our services include helping our clients enhance customer experiences, enable and sustain change, improve operational performance and transform and grow business.Bridgewater Consulting Group provides full-service management and technical consulting services to the utlity sector. We help clients identify and address their most demanding business challenges with innovative, balanced and measurable solutions. We ascribe to the belief that every client deserves a unique value-based approach in order to deliver tangible results.Together we will optimize your business structure, empower you to achieve your strategic goals and increase business productivity. Partner with us for an unmatched experience.

San Dimas

Principal of T & H Consulting, LLC providing consulting services in the areas of strategic and operational planning, organizational change management, business process management, vendor management in the Utility, Banking ,Government and Non- Profit sector. I have partnered with Excelerate Consulting, LLC over the course of 2013/14 in leading the development of supplier diversity strategic plans and operating plans with local water utilities. Building Supplier Diversity process improvement initiatives, coaching organizations on effective implementation of strategies and planning, and building training and OCM materials. Working with clients to develop metrics and reporting recommendations to improve executive and regulatory reporting.

Responsible for maintaining the strategic partnerships between IT and multiple internal client organizations to ensure optimum return on clients’ technology investments. Act as liaison between all levels of SCE executives, managers, external agencies, and vendors to maintain effective business relationships. Responsible for leading cross functional technology teams and integrating their efforts in the overall solution design and delivery, process improvements, issue resolution, project and service level performance. Collaborated with clients and technology teams to develop long-range technology strategies, that translate into IT technology roadmaps and operating plans in support of business operational imperatives and strategies.

Responsible for the governance and optimization of SCE’s technology-related investments and management of vendor relationships and expertise to meet business strategies with cost effective solutions.• Established annual software license audit reviews to identify and help mitigate mainframe software license compliance issues through contract/license review, reducing over $1M in financial exposure from out of compliance issues with major technology companies• Established a cross functional team and a governance model which centralized and provided oversight to all IT purchase requests and leveraged purchasing power to improve cost effectiveness of IT investments

Senior Contracts Manager for the FDIC Irvine Western Region. Managed a team of 6 responsible for the oversight of 12 contracts for Financial Processing and Loan Servicing that totaled $60 million dollars to support over 98 receiverships and 16 conservators.

Irvine, Ca

Reported to the Western Operations Chief of Division Administration. Managed a staff of 11 Contract Specialists of which 4 were senior Contract Specialist in areas of purchasing, contract negotiations, contract awards, modification and ratifications of FDIC contracts. Contracts managed totaled 115 with a contract value of $107.5 M. Performed contract actions in compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulations.• Developed policies and procedures for Contract Review and Contract Closeouts as a quality control set of processes to ensure that all contracts in excess of $500K were closed using a structured closeout checklist and structured methodology based on risk and dollars

Los Angeles, Ca

Reported to the Regional Vice President of Middle Market Banking. Established and developed commercial banking relationships with companies in the San Gabriel Valley and Inland Empire with annual sales up to $15 million.

Certification In Nonprofit Governance, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Activities and Societies: HBS

Change Management

Prosci certified in Change Management

Certified Green Belt, Lean Six Sigma

Certified in Lean Six Sigma- Green Belt

Public Policy Analysis

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration, Management And Operations, 3.7 Gpa

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Business - Economics