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• Real Estate and Construction Program Manager
• Manage Real Estate projects that include sales, leases and sub-leases
• Lead negotiations for transactions
• Lead programs to build tenant improvements and employee experience progrms for American Family employees and partners

Greater Chicago Area

• Program manager for global pharmaceutical retailer's strategic projects in North America.
• Lead cross-functional teams to improve customer experience and improve operational performance.
• Manage development and implementation of healthcare partnerships and retail operations and programs.
• Leads remote and in-market teams and programs in construction, merchandising and retail.
• Safety instructor for in-market teams

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed development and deployment of new convenience store and food offer for ampm brand. We utilized consumer segmentation research to develop our category and format strategy, developed the products and packaging.
• Launched BP’s new convenience store brand. Led the cross-functional team that developed and implemented the new retail brand.
• Led pilot team for BP’s new global retail (gas station) image to drive more sales to sites.
• Created BP’s retail brand and field marketing standards. Built the tools, communications and training to help distributors meet the standards and improve customer experience compliance by 100%.
• Developed and led consumer research that shaped how we positioned our brand and developed processes and materials to train sales staff on brand activation.
• Oversaw commercial offers and channel marketing to distributors. Developed strategy, tools, contracts and procedures to provide $50 million in annual investments in partner distributor network.

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed product launch at 10,000 retail sites which increased sales by $600 Million. Responsible for $20 million budget, planning, customer engagement, the installation of consumer facing on-site image and POP, and.
• Led marketing mix analysis to determine channels, investment levels, geographies for our advertising campaign.
• Led BP’s annual market planning process; a cross-functional effort to determine marketing/sales goals and define consumer facing spend and strategy for our $30 Billion business.
• Convened quarterly marketing performance reviews to understand syndicated data, acquire consumer insights, and advance tactical and strategic plans.

Chicago

• Awarded independent consulting contract to re-engineer teacher recruiting strategy for the nation’s 3rd largest school system. Customized HR software, led change management efforts and developed and delivered training.

Greater Chicago Area

• Led technical team during Tribune’s human resources strategy restructuring. Duties included process mapping, change management, software coding and advanced database analysis using SQL
• Gathered user requirements and developed software to meet user experience goals

Greater Chicago Area

• Senior Software Consultant for PeopleSoft (Oracle)
• Performed HRMS software and process consulting for large organizations.

Greater Chicago Area

• Consultant for PeopleSoft software implementations and enhancements.
• Delivered training as a functional and technical trainer for procurement software (Ariba).

Consulting activities focused on business process re-design and Human Resources software deployment for energy, publishing, government, and banking clients.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management And Strategy, Analytical Consulting, And Finance.

Ba/Bs, Economics, Political Science