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El Paso, Texas

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Greater Denver Area

• Managed every stage of the product development life cycle. Managed mechanical engineer and others in developing highly engineered consumer products. Managed vendor relationships to ensure they complied with specifications and quality standards.• Developed and executed strategies for marketing, distribution, and sales. Developed and leveraged Project Charters and Gantt charts, assigned tasks, and coordinated communications among resources and stakeholders across complete product portfolio.• Ensured customer support was available to licensees and customers. Mined data, conducted research, and developed product specifications. Established, maintained, and monitored product development details and scheduling dependencies.• Strong working knowledge of interrelationships between and among stakeholders. Proven success working with suppliers. Independently developed a strong network of resources.• Typically worked up to a dozen projects simultaneously in a fast-paced industry. Most recently, reduced packaging costs by 68%.

Carrollton

Had my fingerprints on every stage of the quality process, from the moment a supplier’s materials hit our back door, to “fireproofing" our production process, to confirming quality before our products left for our customers.• Conducted ISO 9001 and API audits to assure compliance with plant and customer requirements.• Improved communication among departments by reviewing every quality concern with every stakeholder involved. Then implemented corrective action(s) to improve quality, in a timely manner. This approach resulted in a year-over-year improvement of 23% in completions within 30 days.• When a Business Unit experienced “crisis-level” numbers of customer complaints (CPIs), I was asked to step in and investigate. Outcome: I resolved more complaints than any other team member.• Performed Tap Root Analyses of high-visibility failures. The Plant Quality Manager described one of my analyses as one of the best he had seen.• Using a Kaizen approach, I was able to recoup $114,000 worth of parts already dispositioned as scrap by finding ways to re-evaluate and rehabilitate them.• Served as President and Marketing Chair of Halliburton’s internal Professional Leadership Organization for Diversity.

Dallas

• Collected demographic data on juries for mock trials used in reports for litigation teams.• Created surveys to assist in research projects including forming focus groups.

Coppell, Texas

Partnered with others on a project team to help reduce our clients' real-estate tax liability. Carried out the organization's proven process for achieving tax reductions by understanding each property, negotiating with representatives of various real estate appraisal districts, and sharing the good news with our clients. Trained new hires and reviewed work of others. Managed retail shopping center for client. Led a project to solve database reporting system issues.

Austin, Texas

Wrote test procedures and coordinated pilot runs for our product, an electronic device controlling the flow of liquids through pipelines. Solved design and structural issues associated with my product line. Reduced burn-in testing of Unit Controllers. Had special responsibility for a process definition study.

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Resident advisor (R.A.). One of only 2 female graduates in that year's Electrical Engineering program.

H.S. Diploma

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