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La Crosse, Wisconsin, Us

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

In my present role, I drive optimal business performance by heading complex and cross-functional integrations and due diligence as well as all legal sales contract intake processes, sales collateral and proposal development, sales training and internal processes leveraged by over 150-person sales organizations; spanning from K-12, university, and corporate continuing and professional development. I streamline work processes by serving as major contributor to organizational design and pay plan development with HR, finance, and strategy. I improve operational proficiency by directly coordinating and supervising business integrations for six acquired businesses while partaking in due diligence.Some of my Proudest achievements in my present job include: - Achieved business growth by overseeing fusion of three distinct business units for sales operations into one, encompassing Kaplan Higher Education, Kaplan Test Prep, and Kaplan Professional.- Increased business efficiency by directing business-to-business and business-to-institution networks of more than 7,500 firms along with managing Kaplan deal desk for controlling extremely complicated and valuable commercial opportunities.- Optimized business ROIs and performance by developing/refining numerous internal and client-facing processes/solutions.- Ensured smooth workflow by building Kaplan's sales enablement and operations team from scratch.

La Crosse, Wi, Us

During this tenure, I met business objectives and deadlines by leading business merger and acquisition integration, third party strategic relationships, corporate business-to-business facing technologies, client technology implementations, and sales excellence and operations. I expanded business by forming several mission critical key partnerships from around the globe. I delivered exceptional support with design and development of emerging and powerful educational online technologies. I established innovative policies and procedures for on-boarding and auditing suppliers for creating Kaplan's professional vendor management and governance team.Some of my key accomplishments during this job include:- Reduced 157 unnecessary vendor-related costs and saved around $2M yearly by coordinating audit of all vendor relationships.- Grew business by spearheading multiple business acquisition integration and operational alignment projects.- Boosted business profitability by developing and strengthening relationships with 11 significant product partners.- Maximized business productivity by serving as team leader for numerous teams, such as account management, implementations, sales enablement, solutions engineering, and strategic partnerships, with about fifty team members, providing services to about 4.5K corporate and institutional partners.

La Crosse, Wi, Us

Within this role, I assisted team members with participating in daily stand-ups and Scrum planning sessions leveraging agile development methodologies. I created organizational framework to unite all platforms of digital technology under one operational team, including number of technological product owners overseeing creation of custom software programs used to provide online education to corporate and educational partners. I devised and executed online learning programs and reporting by liaising with sales professionals and client decision makers. I directly collaborated with outside project management and software engineering resources to augment development resource availability and ensure completion of projects on schedule and within budget.My key achievements include:- Oversaw creation of proprietary program offering firms specialized online learning solutions; used by over 1,000 organizations, 5M professional education students, and generated over $100M in income by using the system.- Received Silver Medal award for Learning and Development, Best Advance in Learning Management Technology for Compliance Training in 2015, from the Brandon Hall Group.- Streamlined practices for developing and working business requirements into technology projects by collaborating with information technology engineering leaders.- Lowered administrative and operational costs and streamlined internal case management and procedures by integrating several Salesforce instances.

La Crosse, Wi, Us

During this time period, I led seamless execution of operations by acting as technology product owner for Salesforce and corporate education portals. I refined organizational structure by building Kaplan professional's IT project management and business analysis department. I coordinated efforts to combine multiple learning management systems, back-office applications, and technological infrastructures.

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As a business analyst for CenturyTel I spent a number of years working with executive leadership to provide analysis, reporting, and recommendations related to a number of business opportunities. Additionally, I spent the majority of this time focus on special projects with a focus on cost reduction, employee efficiency, and superior customer experiences.

As a District Manager for ITS Commercial Security I oversaw all operations for offices located in La Crosse, WI, Eau Claire, WI, Madison, WI, Milwaukee, WI, Wausau, WI, and assisted with customer development in the Colorado Springs, CO area.As part of this role I was responsible for the management of over 100 employees, conducted all contract negotiations, managed all sales opportunities and business-to-business customer relations, and new channel product development.

Certificate In Artificial Intelligence Business Strategy, Information Technology

Master Of Science (Ms), Management

Bba, Organizational Management

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