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Focus on GEOVIA Partner acquisition and development to identify candidates for relevant coverage for GEOVIA growth globally in targeted regions and market segments. Support our Regional leaders and Partner Sales Managers with the onboarding, development and enablement of existing and new partners.

As a Partner Sales Manager for Onboarding at DASSAULT SYSTEMES, responsible for the development of newly recruited partners, helping them become self-sufficient, capable and profitable contributors to our ecosystem in their given Industry or Domain of expertise.

Responsible for leading department, strategic planning, and defining tactical initiatives for over $15M programs.• Creating Agile team for high velocity and quality outcomes for the digitization of manufacturing processes.• Building new operational program to support solution delivery for Digital Analysis Led Design for Manufacturing.• Focused on future capabilities, I4.0 innovative projects and enhancing business partner relationships.• Instrumental in persuading Executive leadership to obtain funds for transformative solutions delivering value.• Negotiated cost savings support contracts and streamlined offshore operations for better customer service.• Improved project visibility to manage constraints among business teams by implementing new dashboards and enhanced reporting for more effective decision-making, planning, and risk mitigation.• Mentored and coached team to complete monthly financial activities timely and increased effectiveness of forecasting, reducing variances and meeting overall financial goals within 5% of targets.• Directed team to prioritize solutions for safety improvements with new technologies, mobility, and analytics.• Delivered key business enhancements for KPIs to better manage asset maintenance, improving (API) sensor-based predictive and preventative work orders reducing downtime on manufacturing assembly line.

Responsible for the effective management and timely delivery of multiple Manufacturing project deliverables.• Develop and manage detailed project plans, track dependencies and critical path for on time delivery for Manufacturing Execution System (MES) package deliverables, (MES) Apriso Application Upgrade and Manufacturing Process Planning (MPP) Software Selection effort.• Manage projects according to the internal SDLC project (waterfall and Agile) methodology and adhere to the guidelines for Enterprise Project Management Office intake, financial approval, and governance.• Contribute to the development and delivery of quarterly presentations for both MES and Manufacturing Process Planning Management (MPP) Review Group meetings.• Establish and maintain vendor relationships as MPP Program Manager to manage the delivery of customer requirements and monitor the supplier Performance Improvement Plan to increase productivity and quality.• Support and guide plant project managers as needed for successful upgrade and implementation projects.• Create progress updates, compliance tracking, status dashboards, project heat maps, and identify, track, and resolve issues while communicating roadblocks with mitigation options to Senior Program Leadership.

Responsible for the successful delivery of enterprise integration applications supporting key business programs.Delivery Manager• Develop and manage project plans, track dependencies and critical path for on time delivery.• Create progress updates, compliance tracking, status dashboards and presentations to review with management.• Identify, track and resolve issues and escalate roadblocks to Steering Committee for resolution.• Review requirements documentation, design specifications, instance connectivity strategy and ensure production issues logged and resolved within SLA guidelines.• Complete project closure activities including lessons learned, KEDB log, knowledge transfer sessions between project and production support teams.• Estimate resource requirements and allocation, develop Statement of Work and amendments, submit purchase orders, review time tracking and reconcile billing hours against total approved hours at project team level.

Responsible for client implementations and product design for a new reporting software application.ApproachIT is a full service technology solutions company providing services focused on contact centers to include customizable business applications, consulting services, implementation and customization services, and IT staffing services. ApproachIT is a Cisco Certified Development Partner.ApproachIT has developed nCompass, a proprietary new generation contact center reporting application that is the answer for end-to-end data collection, analysis and reporting (reducing contact center report generation by up to 90%). nCompass provides the ability to collect data from multiple data sources, provide proper structuring of data relationships and the ability to display the data in a meaningful way to the end-user with great flexibility.Through client implementation of nCompass, ApproachIT realized many organizations experience deep sustained pain throughout their entire organization when it comes to reporting. nCompass has the ability to provide reporting solutions far beyond the contact center in healthcare, retail, manufacturing, education, government and more.

Responsible for home based business in the healthcare, wellness and cosmetic industry.

Worked for Tire Kingdom as their IT Director, responsible for the outsourced IT Department supporting the entire technical infrastructure for this tire and auto parts retailer (600+ stores including 3 distribution centers) and tire wholesaler (30+ branch locations).

Responsible for the application development and support of Office Depot’s new Global PeopleSoft HRMS system.

Client service professional assigned to variety of projects in Central and Eastern US. Key member of project teams performing various consulting tasks based upon client requirements.

Directed the development of the new client/server infrastructure and implementation of PeopleSoft HRMS (HR, Payroll) and Financial applications (AP, GL, PO, AM) along with enabling technologies (i.e., IVR).

Client service professional assigned to variety of projects in US. Key member of project teams performing various functional and technical consultations to support JDA AS/400 implementations at a variety of client sites.

Responsible for the entire development lifecycle for assigned tasks relating to Lawson merchandise applications.