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Onalaska, Texas, United States

Leading and sometimes being lead by the most amazing women I know. Our goal is to grow brand awareness for individuals and businesses. Providing design services or merchandise that makes people smile. From custom t-shirts to felt award banners and most things in between, We Got You Covered!

Livingston, Texas, United States

As the Customer Success Champion, my role is an enablement partner to align with the customer to drive understanding of the Aligni solution. Whether they adopt the MRP or PLM solution, supporting all phases from Awareness through Reinforcement. Brought to the developing organization for guidance with internal teams, and enhance dialog with Customers furthering the grow of Aligni’s PLM/MRP market presence. Primary goal, to implement a Training Program focusing documentation and training deliverables for the existing and emerging features. Interacting with customers to understand what they desire and need to work within Aligni. Understanding the messages coming from the customer was important to determining the Training Program for prioritization and implementation. Initial training priorities include installing a Discovery Call with all new customers to determine what level of integration is needed. Taking information gathered and focus on existing documentation, revision of existing documentation and creating documentation for new features in collaboration with the development team.

Richardson, Texas, United States

Engaged to join the Product & Service team within IT to assist and guide development of Instructional Design and implementation for enterprise systems. The framework for development has been modified to follow SAFe Agile, moving away from Waterfall. Instructional Design had to follow the SAFe framework across the D365 and Salesforce Solutions. Activities Include delivery of the instruction through In-Person, Virtual and eLearning activities. Advise in areas of Subject Matter expertise such as IOT device network topology issues for resolution.

Houston, Texas Area

Delivered the strategic vision of Learning and Development for technical, business systems, leadership growth and customer service for all global employees.• Designer of the Learning Program included in career succession that focused the development of training plans for Operations Teams based on established Competencies and Skills.• Owner of the Speedcast Learning Management System (LMS).• Creative developer of eLearning content (SCORM) using Adobe Creative Suite• Organized strategies for instructional design and employee engagement to promote learning success.• Wrote the eLearning guidelines for content creation.• Collaborated with and Managed Partner content development and deployment to provide the best experience while achieving the maximum ROI. • Authored business intelligence (BI) tools for Senior Leadership to reflect training roadmap and effectiveness of delivered learning including ROI.• Incorporated Microsoft Office365 tools to enhance the business / learning environment. • Implemented all Corporate Compliance Training to include: Insider Trading| Export Compliance |Anti-Corruption & Anti-Bribery |Discrimination & Harassment

Houston, Texas Area

Manage Global Supply Chain staff, budget and projects for the Americas region consisting of 9 locations in 5 countries.• Successfully lead a struggling Supply Chain organization from an order backlog of 4 months to implementation of a forecast delivery model within 1 year.• Oversight of $40,000,000 USD equipment per year.• Product Management and Development• Management of Global Teams included Product Management, Product Engineering, Project Engineering and Engineering Services (Engineering includes all communication networks not to be limited to satellite networks)• Managed global staff, projects, budget and processes.• Supported implementation of 3 ERP systems.

Houston, Texas Area

Development and implementation of Product and Services Lifecycle.Manage the Global Product Portfolio Manage the Global Product Management Team

Managing Project Engineering Staff, Projects and Budget within 3 Global Regions. Groups include Project Engineering, CAD Group, Fabrication and Parts Desk.Duties include:- Develop, Implement and Monitor Continuous Improvement of Engineering Roles in Global ERP System- Document procedures for successful implementation and adoption of ERP system within global engineering- Develop and deliver training for engineering parts within the global corporation- Design and deliver reports developed from data collection mined from ERP system- Design the initial time reporting metrics for global engineering- Responsible for inclusion and maintenance of engineering parts within the ERP system- Design Process, Procedures and Work Instructions for internal and external activities within the global corporate environment- Develop and implement document management strategies. (Implementation of Autodesk’s Productstream)- Develop global documentation strategies and procedures- Develop and document procedures with suppliers and outsourced assembly- Assist in developing and documenting procedures for ISO 9001:2000 recertification of the UK office- Develop strategies for Global Engineering to adopt ISO 9001:2000 criteria- Develop and oversee process, procedures and work instructions submitted to Quality Program- Develop Quality Assurance process and guidelines for manufactured parts - Develop and maintain Metrics for Global Project Engineering - Develop and maintain parts portal Web Application

Duties included management of CAD, Fabrication and Engineering Parts. Supervised and supported transition of parts into IFS ERP. Developed tools to enhance user environment in access of parts data. Developed global CAD Standards and practices.

Managed all staff and budget to include various Federal, State and private funding sources• Proposed, designed and managed all exterior campus improvements and official mapping data.• Supported Colleges and Academic Departments in lectures and support for grant projects.• Nationally recognized for developing one of the most effective GIS applications for University Campus Management.

Main responciblities included Product Support, Sales, Training and Consulting for Autodesk Software for Higher Education Institutions in West Texas. Other duties included Product Support, Training and Consulting for all markets TCS serviced.

As an instructor in the CAD program at SPC I had the following responcibilities Instruction of CAD courses Assisted with the redevelopment of the Drafting Technology program and changing the name to the CAD Technology program Developed curriculum based on guidelines established by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board rules and the SPC advisory committee to become more industry inclusive and modern Submitted and received grants to update computers and software within the CAD labs Wrote the application and proposal for SPC to become an Autodesk Training Center (ATC) Developed and managed the ATC lab and curriculum Developed ATC course costs  Managed equipment and supply purchases for ATC and CAD program Maintained CAD program and ATC websites Updated and maintained ATC schedule Maintained and complied with rules governing ATC’s from Autodesk Inc. Achieved and maintained Autodesk Instructor Certification Gave presentations at area high schools and professional organizations promoting SPC and the CAD Technology program Assisted in the preparation for the accreditation visit from the Southern Associations of Colleges and Schools Assisted in the preparation for the accreditation visit from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board