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Kansas City, Missouri, Us

• Develop and Lead Culture, Transformation & Strategy service offerings.• Lead and Partner with clients to execute on strategy, planning, and change management initiatives• Advising leaders and teams on Strategy, Change Management, and organizational shift culture.• Trusted advisor and account manager for large clients and internally

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

• .Lead Vererti Concepts Culture, Transformation & Strategy service offerings.• Partnering with clients on organizational strategy and planning.• Advising leaders on organizational shift culture.• Lead clients change management initiatives.

• Designed business plan and strategy for logistics and supply chain organization• Responsible for liaising with board of directors and partners to ensure funding for $20 million• Partner with various external enterprises to ensure all components of strategy and operation align• Run all subsidiary companies under umbrella with simultaneous programs and projects• Build, lead and grow high performing teams throughout the organization

Richmond, Virginia, Us

• OCM and Strategy practice lead that build high performing team for growing market • Designed, implemented, and launched Captech’s Culture Shift service offering.• Led large scale change management and culture shift initiative within private and public sectors• Led MTA CIO and his leadership team through a culture shift initiative with senior leadership • Led and implemented strategic planning workshops for C-suite and direct reports for clients• Created client's mission and vision, and designed the organizations Town Hall content for 900 • Guided MTA and Washington state through major culture shift initiative• Presented award for consulting efforts and results for Washington State LNI

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Business Transformation Community Lead that built team to plan and implement new service line.• Developed Philadelphia market strategy through various internal partnerships.• Led to Coca-Cola for North Star Team’s project team to successfully transitioned to bottler.• Led New Jersey Department of Community affairs IT transformation project with desired results.• Led team for the State of Illinois implementing and authoring department’s change playbook.• Project Managed Comcast Business Class data and analytics reporting.• Coached and developed junior consultants.

• Led strategic planning efforts. • Led business process standardization across six regions.• Created 150+ business processes ready for upload in new knowledge management system.• Selected to advise on knowledge management tool selection team.

• Developed strategic and execution plans • Delivered the desired result for increased marketplace presence.• Project managed on execution deliverables within the strategic and execution plans.• Consulted with clients and responsible for business proposals on strategy offering.• Developed and implemented workflow collaboration solution for the organization.• Grew first quarter qualified prospects by 30% as a result of client delivery.• Consulted small to mid-sized companies to stimulate growth startup businesses.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Led business process documentation effort.• 100% of recommended process changes were accepted.• Over 300 current state processes were document and updated prior to merger.• Selected to stay on during and post merger for M&A efforts for process and strategy advisory.

Baltimore, Md, Us

• Advised Leadership and PMO through merger on business strategy and process design.• Facilitated and aligned project/change management efforts and governance design structure.• Led business process documentation efforts for future state.• Future state efforts resulted in over 400 processes with 100% approval of suggested changes.

Bloomfield, Ct, Us

• Led and built Total Health and Network Business Architecture Model team successfully .• Created business architecture capability framework for a 5,000 FTE organization across the U.S.• Consulted senior leaders and develop strategic and operating plans.• Coached Cigna employees on strategy, change management, and business architecture.

West Derby, Gb

• Developed marketing model resulting in accelerating global response rates by 133%.• Created financial model resulting obtaining $10 million revolving line of credit.• Led and facilitated all Senior Leadership and Board meetings.

St Paul, Minnesota, Us

• Interim Managing Director.• Created U.S. Business plan with Senior Leadership and Sales teams.• Propelled top line profit for global Biotech firm by 5% through planning and execution efforts.• Project managed U.S. Operations office move.

• Transformed partnership between top rated U.S. financial services firm and U.S. Bank.• Transformation efforts slashed redundancies by 30% and increased bottom line revenue by 4%.• Eliminated pricing errors and standardized data for multiple portfolios.

• Interim Director of Investment Reporting for U.S.-based life insurance company.• Re-engineered client financial reporting system.• Re-engineering efforts Improved reporting efficiency by 40% while reducing errors by 80%.• Trained and oversaw financial analyst team.

Princeton, New Jersey, Us

• Advised Drug Research Organization executive team.• Developed competitive intelligence market reporting for organizational planning efforts.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

• Project managed IT on email system.• Advised leadership in IT and Finance on email department financial codes.

Camden, New Jersey, Us

• Led project and change management efforts to implement CRM system.• Created training on proprietary CRM.• Increased reporting and planning efficiency by 30% by implementing CRM system.

New York, Ny, Us

• Consulted on financial pricing correction project.• Integral partner in fee and commission correction across all business lines.• Standardization efforts resulted in 15% saving across all clients.• Standardization efforts also resulted in 70% reduction in redundancies.

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• Interim Senior Business Architect.• Designed business Capability model for AARP piece of business.• Led and facilitated capability sessions for senior leadership.

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Senior Business Architect Consultant

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

• Designed and facilitated experiential learn on Leading for Innovation for 95 students.• Delivered course work to MBA candidates on Managing Innovation and Strategy.• Delivered course work for Strategic Human Resources Management online course.

Springfield, Pa, Us

• Delivered strategy & leadership development programs for 800+ leaders worldwide.• Provided expert consulting to Diageo solidifying and re-engineering corporate strategy.• Advised to Senior Executives in Global 1000 and Fortune 500 companies on strategy execution.• Led launch of Shanghai, China office producing revenue with in the first 3 quarters of operating.• Amplified productivity by 15% through implementing of a knowledge management system.

Horsham, Pa, Us

• Responsible for all investment reporting analysis.• Project managed efforts in partnership IT with Y2K .• Co-authored with IT financial reporting units contingency plan.• Re-engineered reporting Improving efficiency by 70% accelerating portfolio managers' decisions.• Represented Penn Mutual on the North American Securities Valuation Association increasing visibility.

• Launched Institutional Desk as core member of initial team • Developed and authored best practices and documentation for institutional team.• Point person and consultant for various institutional clients with their portfolios.• Accountable for all funds trade analysis.Accountable for analysis of largest clients trading activities increasing reporting time from 4 hours to 30 minutes.

Mba, Marketing And Organizational Management

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Marketing And Finance

Ba, Finance

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