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Osaka, Japan

Austin, Texas, United States

Created a documented a new process using Jira, Confluence, the Gherkin method, and the chrome extension Scribe to perform Business Analysis and Quality Analysis that allowed the developers to follow the process of the QA which made it much easier to see where things went wrong, or where there might be a weakness in the programming to overcome. Prior to.

Austin, Texas, United States

• Created the development workflow for the Operations department providing clarity around statuses and the process of how an issue gets to resolution improving the number of tickets completed per month by 400%.
• Standardized prioritization, communication, and workload management for the engineering team to streamline development and ensure the company can complete more tickets and more of the right tickets.
• Tailored the Operations Jira board to be specific to their needs, increasing visibility of their own tickets, and broadening their perspective of their needs relative to the organization.

Austin, Texas Area

• Created and documented all processes for a small company which enabled them to grow from a company trading assets of $8 million per month to over $50 per month (600%+ growth) in less than two years.
• Designed the company's first employee procedural handbook by job shadowing every position in the company and documenting every process into a complex workflow.
• Collaborated with our offshore team to train, and to move certain processes from our onshore team to our offshore team.

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

• Teaching English in one-on-one classes, small classes of four or fewer students, and workshops of up to twenty-four students.
• Facilitating Career Advancement, and Career Track classes giving student the opportunity to apply their English knowledge.
• Support sales by providing course tasters, and oral placement tests.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Controlled expenses for $130 million budget with accuracy that allowed us to project our year end within.002% at mid-year, while reducing annual accruals to.26%.
• Created processes and procedures for researching, tracking, auditing and reporting on 500+ contracts, and 2700+ invoices.
• Analyzed Peoplesoft, Microsoft Project, and other HR resources data to create and maintain a HR tracking system for the department that allowed senior management to make informed decisions about staffing for FTEs.
• Functioned as the liaison between my team and a team of database developers, creating business requirements, and performing user acceptance testing to implement a database solution for our HR tracking system.
• Produced workflow documentation through strategic analysis and created detailed process documents for all processes performed on my team.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Analyzed and updated multiple databases for inconsistencies resulting in systemic improvement from 30% accuracy to 99% accuracy.
• Managed creation of the process flowchart, WBS, communication plan, traceability matrix, change log, change management plan, project management plan, schedule management plan, stakeholder management strategy, process.
• Optimized existing contract terms to reduce variables by 50%, and consolidated multiple contracts onto one.
• Ordered, Inventoried, and distributed vendor samples for the eighteen Lennar communities around Charlotte.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Managed multiple vendors through a lean process project using schematics to reduce sheetrock waste resulting in a $200,000 annual, repeatable savings.
• Improved workflow efficiency through process improvement resulting in $40,000 of savings.
• Implemented a streamlined payment schedule yielding excess of 2500% improvement in overdue payment requests received by accounting.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Trained and advised the staff in the use of the SalesForce CRM database.
• Developed a cost control process that analyzed satellite and aerial photography to create estimates accurate to 95% without ever going on site.
• Optimized contract creation reducing data-entry errors and saving 30 minutes per contract generated.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Created a small business from the ground up, including all the processes, procedures, accounting, and legal aspects required.
• Increased client satisfaction by creating a SharePoint site, which allowed clients to access information online 24 hours a day, preventing loss of documents through archiving, as well as saving on delivery time and.
• Trained clients on the use of MS SharePoint software for quick and easy access to their permits and other documents.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Developing reporting criteria to track extra purchase orders reducing the price of non-conformance spending from $6,000,000 annually to $2,000,000 annually.
• Applying critical chain methodologies and created a system that closely tracked progress decreasing cycle time from 4.5 weeks to 2 weeks.
• Performed a stakeholder analysis, and managed an agile project focused on process improvement to build a prototype house to frame to identify risks and opportunities, resulting in a 5% direct cost saving through.

Japanese Studies

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Project Management, 3.8

Ba, Religion, 3.5