Kerry De Vore, Mba, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Snapshot: Program manager for large back-office programs. Partners with vendors, IT and business to document requirements. Ensures programs and projects are progressing and on track. Leads PMO staff directly or indirectly in managing schedule and scope. Partners with IT and FP&A on overall program budget and manages spend. • Manages business teams in developing requirements and ensures business activities stay on track. • Oversees all aspects of program governance, including regularly providing program updates to various governance bodies, presenting issues requiring decisions, and seeking out and resolving concerns of the governance bodies. • Develops communication plan, and identifies and provides regular updates to stakeholders.• Collaborates with Change Management team to develop company-wide communications. • Manages and trains PMO team on the use of fundamental program tracking tools. Supervises one Manager

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Snapshot: Leads a portfolio of Operations initiatives across customer success, sales, and finance operations, and responsible for scoping, planning, executing, resourcing and monitoring of transformational project(s) to keep on schedule and within budget. Develops project plans to manage the end-to-end project activities, dependencies, including scope management, success criteria, deliverables, milestones, and engages other organizations, as appropriate.• Partners with sponsor to define scope, criteria for success, risks and identify team. With team develops schedule and identifies milestones.• Manages programs and projects proactively working with project team on risk mitigation, effective issue resolution and decisions needed• Communicates program insights, recommendations, and results to executive stakeholders• Develops, manages and trains team on program infrastructure to clearly communicate changes, easily identify issues and streamline reporting • Developed processes, project and program management templates for managing and reporting workstreams

Colorado Springs, Colorado, Us

Snapshot: Contractor with the US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) provided project management for contract. Managed Apogee employees, independent contractors and subcontractors. Monitored funding and provided estimates to completion. Also supported customer providing process improvement coaching and instruction on DMAIC framework. ▪️ Guided multiple teams to improve their processes. Coached a team to streamline the approval process for access to software and reduce it by 60+ days through providing training and documentation.▪️ Developed AFRL’s tailored project management training.

San Francisco, California, Us

Snapshot: Led a team of three managers and two senior analysts in accounting and operations process improvements for the Gap, Inc. Shared Services Center. Main focus was to leverage Lean Six Sigma tools, including DMAIC, to enhance and streamline accounting and operations processes through changing processes and implementing automation.▪️ Guided multiple projects that led to $700K in savings by reducing manual processes and improving quality. ▪️ Established a strong rapport with stakeholders and teams.▪️ Managed team’s utilization and project backlog.▪️ Managed three Managers and two Sr. Analysts

San Francisco, California, Us

Snapshot: Filled a gap between accounting and IT to move projects forward and to correct systematic issues and ensuring completeness and accuracy in the general ledger. ▪️ Partnered with IT to correct systematic errors, which eliminated the need for manual workarounds easing labor costs and reducing audit exposures. ▪️ Evaluated corporate finance software alongside accounting processes to develop an integration plan and correct general ledger incompatibility.

San Francisco, California, Us

Snapshot: Invested in my accounting team and their development. Fostered a performance and customer-centric atmosphere to help team members advance within the organization. ▪️ Built relationships with IT, online sales, the UK accounting team, and the franchise team to resolve accounting issues and ensure journal entry accuracy.▪️ Served as the lead PM on the redesign of the prepaid licensing and subscriptions database, which automatically calculated and recorded prepaids monthly.▪️ Managed two Sr Analysts and one Staff Analyst.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Snapshot: Hired from a contract position to help Healthgrades implement a process to monitor and record deferred revenue. ▪️ Led the collections team and guided a team of billing personnel on invoicing best practices. Managed two collections staff members and one invoicer.▪️ Handled month-end accounting tasks, including variance analyses, and recording bad debt, and sales allowances.

Denver, Co, Us

Snapshot: Assisted organizations with their accounting accuracy, deferred revenue, collections, and billing systems. ▪️ Brought current reconciliations, partnering with staff and contractors to identify and document the process. ▪️ Teamed with business partners to provide training on reconciliations and AR procedures.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Snapshot: Recorded revenue and other journal entries and reconciled accounts across multiple business units and lines of business.▪️ Recognized and reconciled deferred bookings for the largest brands.▪️ Partnered with cross-functional departments to establish replicable methods for evaluating and recording adjustments for systematic customer payment failures.▪️ Re-engineered quarterly refund reserves to simplify process, add sub-ledger reconciliations, and record by brand.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Snapshot: Provided project management expertise in integrating acquired company into $140M auto-financing company. Assisted $1.5B dollar auto-financing company in documenting processes at multiple processing centers allowing them to successfully transfer processing volume to new site▪️ Teamed with process groups to identify and resolve process gaps and issues with integrating new company ▪️ Facilitated approval process for requirements, acceptance testing and deployment of integration related IT projects.

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics

Mba, Finance

High School Diploma