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San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, California

Business Creation: Founded Next Alpha Partners LP, a private placement fund, and its investment management company and General Partner, Next Alpha Capital LLC. Led the development of all governing and operating documents, including partnership agreements, private placement memorandum, cybersecurity policies, and business continuity plans.Operational Leadership: Oversees all organizational operations, including business strategy, budgets, finance, accounting, tax, audit, trade execution, performance tracking, capital raising, compliance and legal functions.Technical Program Management: Engineered and deployed a secure IT network with cybersecurity protocols, wireless access, and Network Attached Storage (NAS). Implemented cloud-based solutions and SaaS applications to improve data management and operational efficiency.Strategic Dashboards: Developed and launched strategy dashboards to support data-driven trading decisions and optimize portfolio management.

San Diego, California

Cross-Functional Leadership: Led 8-10 concurrent high-visibility projects simultaneously with multiple remote cross-functional teams including sales, engineering, product, and vendors groups.Technical Program Management: Directed the design of complex VoIP communications infrastructure for city and county dispatch centers, data centers and remote sites.Stakeholder Management: Partnered with senior leaders, PM resource managers, sales managers, engineering managers and pre-sales planners to achieve both business and technical objectives.

San Diego, California

Technical Program Management: Directed remote cross-functional teams, including sales, engineering, product groups and vendors to design complex mission-critical public safety communications systems.Customer-Focused Solutions: Analyzed customer requirements, defined scope and crafted customized proposals, encompassing statements of work, implementation plans, training plans, pricing, infrastructure design, and equipment specifications. Project Planning: Developed detailed implementation pricing by assessing project duration, resource loading, vendor quotes, and aligning with company P&L targets.

San Diego, California

• Technical Leadership: Led an engineering team to craft a successful RFP response for a $39M countywide VoIP communication system upgrade. Influenced negotiations and contract language modifications during a 12-month negotiation.

San Diego, Ca

Program Management & Business Development: Developed a comprehensive business plan, system design and implementation strategy, enabling a customer to purchase a $95M, 72-site VoIP communication system directly from Motorola, bypassing the RFP process.Implementation & Project Lifecycle: Designed a detailed, multi-phase implementation plan and 10-year lifecycle management strategy for the $95M VoIP communication system.Lead Engineer: Spearheaded the design and RFP response for a countywide VoIP public safety communications system, securing a $24M contract.Requirements Analysis & Change Management: Conducted a thorough analysis of customer requirements and authored an RFP, leading to a $2.4M change order for a microwave communications network.Product Development: Gathered customer requirements, defined hardware and software feature sets, and collaborated with software engineering and product planning teams to incorporate them into the product’s technical roadmap.

Mba, Finance & Entrepreneurship

Bs In Electrical Engineering