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Kent, Wa, Us

Huntington Beach, California, Us

Kent, Wa, Us

- Program Management and Planning: Serving as Deputy Program Manager with a focus on tactical management tasks including reporting of financial/programmatic performance, organization planning/staffing, tasking, and risk assessment. - Operational Rigor: Leading ZBO program business rhythms by preparing and leading staff meetings, operating reviews, and generation/tracking of action items.- Manufacturing and Testing: Responsible for coordinating with Program Engineering on planning and execution of the deliverable releases necessary for internal and external technical reviews. Actively pursuing strategic and operational objectives to ensure on time completion within a defined budget cross-functionally with engineers, technicians, management, and business personnel. Working closely with internal and external manufacturing and test facilities to coordinate on-time delivery of hardware.

Kent, Wa, Us

- Operational Metrics: Developed and operationalized business unit-wide metrics and reporting strategy for review at Executive and Program levels to generate actionable insights contributing to maturation of 5 spacecraft programs valued over $2 Billion and start-up of 11 formulation projects valued over $500 Million.- Organizational Planning + Growth: Optimized program staffing demand planning process to drive business unit growth from ~150 to ~1,100 employees. Operationally integrated 1 business acquisition and spun-off business operations for 3 programs to new/other business units.- Cross-Functional Leadership: Led multi-disciplinary teams to unblock program-affecting issues across Procurement on-time delivery, Facilities planning, Talent Acquisition cycle time, and IT tool development.- Command Media: Accountable for AS9100/ISO9000-level Policy/Procedure approval for >100 documents. Partnered with Quality + Engineering to standardize risk and scheduling process for 6 formulation programs.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Business Transformation: Created and implemented business-wide process improvement strategy and standards, reporting directly to the CIO. Projects included Sales Process redesign, Voice of Customer, Customer Master, and Order-to-Cash simplification resulting in over 30% project cycle time acceleration.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Team Leadership: Owned 3 SFDC instances (sales cloud + marketing cloud + service cloud) of 2,000+ users leading a team of 6 Administrators, 3 Business Analysts, and 5 Developers. - Product Management: Created and maintained the Salesforce Roadmap and feature/bug intake process. Major projects included Lightning UI upgrade, Configure/Price/Quote setup, qualification automation, Forecasting, Auto-Renewal setup, Lead Routing, Oracle-to-Netsuite integration, Service Cloud overhaul, profile optimization, software provisioning, and agency management resulting in 95% user satisfaction.- Agile Project Management: Led SFDC scrum and resource allocation. Optimized process using JIRA best practices, product governance, user story templates, testing standards, release controls (Gearset, BitBucket), ServiceNow case management, Steering Committee prioritization, and consistent functional check-ins resulting in 98% on-time delivery to sprint commit and 97% defect-free releases.- Data Architecture: Ensured stability, security, and cost effectiveness with 99.9% uptime across integrations including: Cision.com, Eloqua, Google Ads, Netsuite, Customer Portal, LinkedIn, Highspot, Brainshark, Chorus, Gainsight, ChurnZero, Jitterbit, ZoomInfo, DocuSign, Outreach, and Zendesk.

Chicago, Il, Us

- CRM Administration: Functionally administered SFDC and commercial iOS applications for 2,000 user base.- Project Leadership: Led a virtual global team of 4 developers to translate business needs into a project roadmap, created 500+ user stories, led Agile scrum reviews, and performed user acceptance testing. Resulted in 7% proposal cycle time reduction, 3% win rate boost, and $1M cost out.- Collaboration: Built strong partnerships with commercial and IT leaders by organizing regular Voice of User discovery sessions and implementing a change control board to align on prioritization biweekly.- Training + Advocacy: Increased sales team CRM competency and adoption by 15% using rigorous training programs, ad hoc mentoring, and personal influencing ability across all levels of a matrixed organization.- Supplier Relations: Fostered relationship with the following suppliers: Salesforce, Upland/Altify Dealmaker, Duns & Bradstreet Optimizer, Nintex Drawloop, Adobe Marketo, Validity Gridbuddy, and Enhatch.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Simplification: Led and executed over 20 FastWorks initiatives cross-functionally contributing to proposal cycle time improvement of 44% within 2 years and Sales Incentive Plan process cycle improvement by 10%- Analytics: Delivered predictive analytics using SFDC data to drive key commercial decisions as needed- Customer Satisfaction: Established and digitized Voice of Customer process to ensure Customer satisfaction at 96% satisfaction, resolving 100+ issues directly impacting sales opportunities across all P&Ls globally- Metrics + Training: Created automated metrics reports for global Commercial Ops and Sales and developed collateral for commercial competency assessments and training plans to improve deficits- Communications: Published Commercial COE simplification communication series and initiated COE progress summaries which increased awareness of key process/org changes and expedited adoption speed- Certifications: Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean, and FastWorks

Chicago, Il, Us

- Cost Savings: Onboarded and trained team of 4 services productivity project leaders, actualizing project benefits of annual average of $28 million in Life Cycle Cost for locomotive fleets under GE service contracts- Process Improvement: Partnered with Six Sigma Black Belt team to improve processes using FastWorks/Lean principles, reducing average project cycle time by over 50%

Chicago, Il, Us

- Increased efficiency of inventory process by simplifying pre-counting procedures.- Provided exemplary customer service in a business to business environment over 50 hours per week.- Led inventory coordination in the Trim Department worth over $1 million in supplies.

- Managed Accounts Receivable billings procedures and assisted in accounts payable.- Developed invoice billing procedure for subsidiary company QuikPatch.- Mastered inventory, filing, and data entry processes using written and interpersonal skills 30 hours per week.

Bachelor Of Science, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, Concentrations In Dynamics/Controls And Propulsion

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