Accomplishments• Saved $6,870 in the first year and $7,908 each year afterwards by finding a more cost-effective manner to implement a database project for the Port of LA.• Improved company organization by creating and implementing a standardized archiving system for proposal submittal-related files.• Encouraged brand compliance by creating a template that makes proposal material easier to format.Responsibilities• Create presentations, training manuals, databases, brochures, business cards, signs and other graphics.• Evaluate RFPs and RFQs, determine customer requirements, create proposal bed per RFP/RFQ specifications, receive input from experts, edit, format, print and/or burn CD, page check deliverable, pack and ship, upload or hand deliver appropriate proposal deliverables, archive (hardcopy documents, electronic files and RFP together), add data about proposal to Excel spreadsheet of archived documents for quick overview of contents to speed future retrieval of correct document.

Created company branding which I then used in creating the company's logo, business card and their former website.

Accomplishments• Successfully provided support for 32% of the production efforts in 2008 for Boeing across the enterprise for proposals worth up to $14B. 100% of those proposals were delivered on time and at the lowest cost.• Led and participated in many Lean+ activities that defined organization objectives and deliverables; documented and improved standard proposal support processes, procedures and policies across the enterprise. Responsibilities• Ensured best value for the company by balancing requirements, prioritizing limited resources, and conflicting schedules for multiple high-profile proposal activities simultaneously, keeping all within budget.• Successfully provided high-quality deliverables on time and at the lowest cost with a core team of 21 dedicated and resourceful staff and 70 part-time vendors.• Arranged travel, schedules and meetings to keep all the people and projects focused on their work.• Worked with facilities and IT as the point person to have secure spaces (sometimes including secret vaults), furnishings, and appropriate equipment for teams whose projects lasted from a few weeks to a few months.• Brought food to the teams personally on a regularly basis to keep them on task.• Interfaced with influential internal customers to find quick, effective solutions to their concerns.• Led a subteam of a cross-functional team, with virtual team members, to design and develop a consistent enterprise-wide instructional program for specialized departmental skills. We polled stakeholders to determine the desired attributes, devised methodologies of instruction consistent with best learning practices, designed assessment tools to highlight areas for employee improvement and developed an associated curriculum for each skill. Provided managers with tools to assess and create plans for their employees.

Accomplishment• Led the publication of the EELV III proposal, which was large enough to require a separate creative team for each volume. Worked with both the original, and the replacement, leader of the authoring team to keep the authors developing and delivering material, despite intense outside distractions.Responsibilities• Evaluated initial job requirements and determined resources for completing high-quality proposal deliverables and executed these plans achieving the desired results. • Assessed changes in projects, responded quickly to keep projects on schedule, high quality, and in budget.• Point person who worked with facilities and IT to have secure spaces (sometimes including secret vaults), furnishings, and appropriate equipment for teams whose projects lasted from a few weeks to a few months.• Tasked to make sure access codes for proposal authoring rooms were changed in a timely manner to avoid improper utilization by prior occupants.• Prepared material for, coordinated, reserved rooms for, created agendas for, and attended kick-off meetings, status meetings and internal review meetings.• Assisted leadership with various research needs and documented findings.• Kept team authoring rooms stocked with office supplies.• Shredded RFP for line by line comparison to final contractual document.• Organized cutoff schedule and author sign-off on all sections prior to printing/publishing to ensure the most up-to-date files were used for the final submittal, without any omissions.• Coordinated printing, page checking, packing, shipping and delivery, archiving, internal routing and filing of completed contractual proposal document.• Kept costs within the budget while having food prepared and brought in, or personally going out and bringing in meals, to keep both the proposal and the authoring teams focused on their work rather than leaving because they were hungry. • Supervised teams of up to a dozen members who met or exceeded customer expectations.

Accomplishment• Promoted standardized usage of proprietary software for document management in proposal development across the enterprise by creating PowerPoint decks with screenshots and then providing the training, in person, to sites from Seattle to Huntsville and, virtually, to a team in Australia.Responsibilities• Provided rapid startup of new proposal teams by training on proprietary document management software.• Created an instructional program teaching new administrators how to use the system and train other trainers. • Updated the training for the end users – including adding screenshots. • Taught one-on-one, in a group setting in person or used WebEx to train remotely, such as in Australia.• Shredded RFP for line by line comparison to final contractual document.• Created sections to store proposal text in the document management program, with each section related to, and numbered in a manner, that directly related to the shredded RFP or RFQ.• Allocated permissions to authors in the document management software on schedule and removed those permissions when writing was scheduled to stop.

Accomplishments• Improved productivity and reduced downtime by creating and providing training for groups and one-on-one.• Maximized departmental organizational capabilities with new tracking databases.Responsibilities• Provided first-level end user computer support to proposal authoring team and proposal support team.• Created, updated, maintained, and taught coworkers to use relational databases to track hardware, software, supplies, and projects.

Accomplishments• Created the oral presentation for the original EELV program that, along with its follow-on programs, provided a steady cash flow for McDonnell Douglas, Boeing and United Launch Alliance. The presentation was so innovative for its time, that even though the team who were allowed to present to the client was limited to 5 people, I was included – so that I could run the presentation.• Successfully performed CPR twice, once a coworker and, at another time, on an electrician.Responsibilities• Represented company with professional and compelling end products by guiding company executives on the best use of graphics, color, and animation within branding guidelines. • Trained coworkers on how to use the computer, printers and the related software.• Reviewed, edited and formatted presentations with appropriate images, backgrounds and branding; checked for copyright concerns.• Supervised a five-member team, four loaned employees, and several outside vendors to complete innovative and effective executive presentations and oral proposals on schedule and at lowest cost.