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Alexandria, Va, Us

Leveraging prior product-focused operations expertise to help scale a growing government contracting organization, supporting the delivery of commercial SaaS offerings to augment a portfolio of Firm Fixed Price contracts.• Regularly participates in the creation of quarterly and annual strategic objectives and is held accountable to deliver desired outcomes Utilizing standard OKR processes.• Drives rigorous budget planning and oversight, delivering 10% under budget for FY2023.• Developed and implemented operating rhythms for budget management and resource planning system.• Accountable for driving Supplier Engagement function within the operations team, working with vendors to reduce costs and manage third-party SW license updates. • Designed corporate Consolidated Procurement System and led a cross functional team to implement end-to-end solution in six months, improving operational efficiency by more than 200%.• Collaborates regularly with and delivers to C-suite, Line of Business, and Functional Leadership.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

• Provided leadership, strategic planning, project and change management for a globally distributed, matrixed organization of over 14,000 associates.• Led a cross-functional team of 23 high-performing professionals to execute on business unit and executive requirements, allocations, and transformation targets for a €100M+ R&D budget. • Published and presented monthly, quarterly, and annual planning reports coincident with appropriate KPI’s to executive leadership, finance, and other key stakeholders. • Implemented “real-time” reporting for budget monitoring utilizing PowerBI dashboards.• Developed and integrated processes for annual planning, budgeting, approval, ordering, and cost booking across fifteen development units within the larger business.• Served as Subject Matter Export across management and financial disciplines including all corresponding methodologies, tools, and processes. • Developed and maintained a culture of continuous improvement by working with cross-functional teams to analyze key problem areas. Drove solutions to significant issues including internal ordering, spend oversight, and product pricing.• Implemented Risk Escalation & Tracking Procedures, facilitated response strategies, assessed project contingency plans, and allocated budget reserves.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

• Owned end-to-end budget responsibility for a €90M+ R&D budget throughout the entire lifecycle for engineering material, subcontractors, IT maintenance and repair, capital assets, and other external services while serving as the principal interface between finance and operations for a business unit of 4,000 associates. • Developed, trained, and coached the Budget Planning and Execution team to ensure an efficient process for purchase approvals, budget management, process automation, data integrity, metric reporting, and risk management.• Consistently met business unit operational and capital expense targets for seven consecutive years, delivering 6% under budget on average.• Ensured data continuity and integrity throughout the budget process from planning to cost booking using Excel Power Query to increase reliability and accuracy of tracking and forecasting latest estimates.• Generated, published, and presented monthly, quarterly, and annual budget forecasts.• Coordinated resource and transformation teams to assess headcount and site strategy to build the P&L and proactively identify potential budgetary issues.• Automated the discovery and correction of hundreds of data errors to produce more effective forecasts through the implementation of Excel Power Query, VBA, and Python scripts that were subsequently adopted by multiple business units.• Provided direction in the planning, organizing, and developing of budgetary strategies, policies, or practices that had a significant impact on 5G programs.

• Established the Program Management Office to capture primary market share with a multi-billion-dollar revenue potential.• Applied best-in-class project management methodology and tools to rigorously manage key projects cross functionally and globally for the global leader in telecommunications manufacturing for small cells products.• Oversaw all project milestones, priorities, budgets, and executive communication for all programs. Managed Project Managers to further define the tasks, deadlines, owners, and dependencies of individual projects. Served as the key escalation point for all program-related issues.• Collaborated with other department leaders to define, prioritize, and develop the details of key projects and worked cross-functionally to build strong relationships to professionally communicate risks and dependencies.• Launched the first commercial release for new Alternate Wireless Topology. • Recruited and trained high-performing project managers to fill positions for secondary or tertiary product releases and manage multiple customer engagements through product trials and demonstrations.• Managed a $50M+ R&D budget spread across multiple programs, created project plans, and proactively communicated with Senior Leadership Team and other key stakeholders outside the organization.• Served as a key member of the Technology Steering Committee, interfacing with with Product Management, Engineering, Test, and Deployment to determine solution portfolio for customers based on current budget constraints.• Began implementation and training of Agile (Scrum) development methodology.

Chicago, Il, Us

➤ Implemented First Office Application baseline and upgrade procedures for WiMAX commercial markets resulting in revenue recognition of $140 million.➤ Lead high visibility, customer facing New Product Introduction; a team of 45 people spanning two departments with global resources in six countries, to provide demonstrations of new technology, software features and hardware products during lab trials, field trials, and preliminary commercial engagements.➤ Accountable for significant contribution towards profitability through cost containment and functional management. ➤ Improved cycle time of pre-commercial customer Acceptance Test Plan execution by 40% through test automation, developing a documentation validation process and establishing the Customer Test Plan Steering Committee. ➤ Initiated and institutionalized Market Baseline procedures for WiMAX and LTE commercial markets, which directly led to the reduction of system upgrade time, much to the approval of the multiple customers.➤ Initiated Customer Acceptance Test Plan consolidation activity, resulting in decreased cycle time of test planning, internal engineering churn and increased customer satisfaction verified through surveys.➤ Improved the customer feedback loop by capturing customer feedback, driving lessons learned, analyzing key customer configurations and delivering this information back to the System Engineering, Software Development and System test teams to enhance requirements for the product.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

➤ Delivered the first WiMAX technology program; a multi-functional, multi-regional 7000+ staff month project encompassing an R&D budget of more than $100+ million.➤ Principal contributor in establishing the Program Management Office for Motorola’s Wireless Broadband Business.➤ Implemented and managed critical strategic initiatives including Portfolio and Release Planning, Business Change Control, Executive Review Board, Estimation Review Process and Project Approval Committees. ➤ Key interface to Business Development Office, Product Management and End User Device teams to ensure portfolio and System Release alignment. Reported on all projects during regular reviews with Senior Management including VP and other Senior Leadership stakeholders.➤ Managed $40+ million budget for R&D operational and capital expenditures.➤ Implemented Motorola's Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to achieve committed program dates, quality goals, project scope, and budgets➤ Achieved Business Critical milestones enabling the first Sprint commercial launch of WiMAX, a 7000+ Staff month System Software Release.➤ Managed Technical Release Management team responsible for driving successful System Test results.