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Contributes to organizational growth and success by ensuring that Macedon's strategic goals are translated into actionable plans and executed effectively, shaping the strategic direction of Macedon and supporting growth, innovation, and long-term success. Collaborates with senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and external partners to ensure alignment with the company's mission and goals. Responsibilities include:* Providing hands-on management and improvement to strategically key business areas as needed. This currently includes managing partner relationships, researching new technology partnerships, and running all Marketing activities. In the past, this has included items such as building role definitions and a career management framework, generating an extensive education program, hiring, sales assistance, and additional cross-departmental strategic initiatives.* Heading Macedon’s revenue-generating Office of Delivery Excellence, which encompasses: running a Program Management Office - including developing and maintaining core legal and internal templates and tools, maintaining all sources of best practices knowledge, overseeing training, and managing a team of Business Process Architects.* Identifying new offerings related to the Office of Delivery Excellence, such as change management, process improvement initiatives, and governance, as well as monetizing these roles and activities through successfully articulating to sales teams, clients, and other stakeholders ways in which Macedon has helped solve adoption and governance issues* Leading cross-functional teams in the planning, executing, and monitoring strategic initiatives, utilizing data-driven insights to inform decision-making, measure progress, and adjust strategies as needed. Driving organizational change as necessary to support the successful implementation of the initiatives. Reporting to senior leadership on the status and impact of strategic initiatives.

As a member of Macedon's executive board, participates in strategy and planning for the company. Works directly with C-suite to implement strategic, cross-departmental initiatives. Envisioned and heads new business unit within the company, the Office of Delivery Excellence, which includes developing unique new service offerings from ideation to the market, significantly increasing the value provided to our clients. The Office of Delivery Excellence encompasses:1) Macedon's Program Management Office, ensuring successful project delivery through establishing, maintaining, and measuring the use of methodology best practices and tools. Analyzing our wealth of project information to identify trends and opportunities to adjust our project approach.2) Building upon our existing internal course work to push the envelope to provide world-class education for our employees, managing the foundation for continued career growth within Macedon Technologies.3) Leading a team of Business Process Architects, who are world-leading experts in our technology suite as well as certified change management experts, to optimize and harmonize the most challenging business processes brought to us by our clients.The Office of Delivery Excellence provides the following offerings to Macedon's clients: * Agile training * Change management services * Governance advisory services * Project SDLC auditing * Thought leadership

This role has two major components:1) Leading the Program Management Office, ensuring successful project delivery through establishing, maintaining, and measuring the use of methodology best practices.2) Leading the effort for recruiting, education, and managing the building blocks for continued career growth of employees within Macedon Technologies.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Providing leadership both internally within Macedon project teams as well as ensuring customer satisfaction through successful project delivery. Also responsible for defining scope, estimates, and plans for Appian projects as well as managing project teams during the design, build, and deployment of Appian applications to ensure that the engagement is meeting the agreed upon requirements and success criteria, following the methodology and best practices, and employing lessons learned. Responsible for customer executive and senior management relationships across the portfolio. Also responsible for preparing project case studies, facilitating marketing references, and aiding in services sales through RFx responses and contract generation.

Cary, Nc

As a trusted advisor to a portfolio of named customers, I provided guidance and best practices to promote customer adoption, value realization, and overall success, thereby ensuring the renewal of the Apptio solution and complete customer satisfaction.Responsibilities also included: advocating for product roadmap updates to meet customer needs, maintaining the direct post-sales relationship from a delivery perspective, aligning with the Apptio Center of Excellence (COE), working closely with the sales teams to recognize and support up-sell and cross-sell opportunities, exceeding internal KPIs regarding customer satisfaction, providing Technical Account Management best practices, and driving key internal organizational initiatives.

As the directly responsible individual for multiple customer accounts, responsibilities included customer satisfaction and successful project delivery. Also responsible for defining scope, estimates, and plans for Appian projects as well as managing project teams during the design, build, and deployment of Appian applications to ensure that the engagement is meeting the agreed upon requirements and success criteria, following the methodology and best practices, and employing lessons learned. Responsible for customer executive and senior management relationships across the portfolio. Also responsible for preparing project case studies, facilitating marketing references, and aiding in services and product sales.

As the directly responsible individual for multiple customer accounts, responsibilities include customer satisfaction and successful project delivery. Also responsible for defining scope, estimates, and plans for Appian projects as well as managing project teams during the design, build, and deployment of Appian applications to ensure that the engagement is meeting the agreed upon requirements and success criteria, following the methodology and best practices, and employing lessons learned. Responsible for customer executive and senior management relationships across the portfolio. Also responsible for preparing project case studies, facilitating marketing references, and aiding in services and product sales.

Responsibilities included gathering detailed requirements, quickly prototyping sophisticated BPM systems, providing customization guidelines and inputs on best practices in process modifications and code customization, and serving as the subject matter expert for Appian Enterprise BPM suite. Customers included: Office of the Comptroller of Currency, Department of Defense (DISA), Department of Justice, CME Group, and Nokia Siemens Networks

Raleigh, Nc

Performed project management and custom development for a small group of customers, utilizing knowledge in Cold Fusion, ExtJS, AJAX, JSON, Java, JSP, PHP, Perl, XML, VBA, MS SQL Server, and MySQL, and using tools such as Eclipse, Ant, Cold Fusion Studio, CVS, MS Project, and Subversion. Also fulfilled roles as Lead Developer, Lead Software Designer, and Customer Manager. Customers included: Campbell Alliance, NASA, and the Jimmy V Foundation

Cary, Nc

Developed, installed, customized, and integrated web based applications to meet customer specific needs on and off site. Customers included: GE Power Systems, Eastman Chemical, Trimeris, Lord Corporation, Goldman Sachs, Commerce Bank, Arnold Air Force Base (AEDC), and Hubbell Wiring. Experience included: database manipulation, software modification, system integration, custom application design and development, document management, content management, and mentoring. Skilled in written documentation and test plans, as well as presentation of new software.

Utilized working knowledge of UNIX, HTML, Perl, JavaScript, ActiveX, CGI and ASP to create and maintain internal web pages. Created an interactive knowledge base for the Technical Assistance Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

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