William Chisholm Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Tx, Us

Dallas, Texas, United States

I am a Senior Technology Project Manager in Southwest's Fuel Technology team. Our Team supports the infrastructure, development, and modernization of the Fuel Management and Fuel Hedging applications.

Dallas, Texas, United States

I was a Senior Project Manager in Southwest's Ground Operations Technology Planning team. Key responsibilities included:-Led the holistic success and planning of Ground Ops Technology Portfolio, ensuring initiatives are aligned to Enterprise strategy and standardized across Southwest by leveraging SAFe (Scaled Agile) methodologies; Developed portfolio vision and strategy, prioritized initiatives, and reported of progress of initiatives -Facilitated LPM (Lean Portfolio Management) events including Strategic Portfolio Reviews mid-PI (period interval) to set future business context, strategic vision, and KPIs, and Portfolio Sync sessions to evaluate PI progress towards objectives-Developed Ground Ops Technology strategic roadmaps to enable high-level prioritization and long-term planning for LPM to facilitate tradeoffs between Enterprise initiatives, departmental priorities and technical debt across key areas such as Baggage, Workforce Management, Concourse Applications, Common Use Platforms, and Turn applications

Dallas, Texas, United States

I was a Project Manager / Epic Owner in the Agile Project Management Office (PMO) of Southwest's Crew Technology team. Key responsibilities included:-Partnered with Technology VPs, Directors and Managers to lead Crew Scheduling & Recovery initiatives including Multi-Region Failover, Inflight and Flight Operations California Pay Compliance, and BitBucket Retirement-Managed $15M (CapEx & OpEx) annual budget for Crew Scheduling & Recovery product line including financial forecasting, budgeting, and variances-Onboarded and mentored Associate Project Specialists, Project Specialists, Project Managers, and Sr. Project Managers

Austin, Texas, United States

Assist MS in Information Technology and Management (MSITM), MS Business Analytics (MSBA), and Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) students interested in pursuing careers in Technology in reaching their goals for both internships and full time roles through resume reviews, interview prep, and general career exploration.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

I supported the mission of the 7-Eleven Corporate Project Management Office (PMO) by providing project portfolio governance and consulting services to company strategic initiatives and project/program management processes. Key roles and responsibilities included: -Consulted with functional areas and provide project management and analysis services to project teams. -Supported the Project Management Office through continuous improvement activities related to its people, processes, technology, and tools.-Guided functional projects through the project initiation process, including financial governance.-Analyzed relationships across the 7-Eleven project portfolio and assist project teams with management of cross-project dependencies and risks.

Austin, Texas Area

Management Department: MBA, EMBA, & BBA Negotiations courses

Austin, Texas Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Change Management and Training lead role supporting a role consolidation effort in the Sales and Revenue team for an aerospace and defense company; Project impacted 600+ employees in $1.6B division; Responsible for developing 4 electronic training modules leveraged nationwide for new role; Executed change management strategy and deliverables.Change Management role supporting a multi-year Organizational Transformation effort for Fortune 100 aerospace & defense company; Project impacted 6,500+ employees and established a new business operating model to drive revenue growth of 100% in 6 years and increase product yield by 4.2x; Executed change management methodology to support various business units through detailed design changes and progress report-outs to the Steering Committee.Lean Six Sigma (LSS) role assessing pricing, deal modeling and contracting (PDC) back office processes at a healthcare services organization; Assessed and implemented rapid, incremental improvements on the process using LSS methodology and facilitating LSS training to clients; Goal reduced PDC process time by ~57% from 21 to 9 business days.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Served as day-to-day lead on a $600M outstanding accounts receivable (AR) and collections project for one of the largest municipalities in the USA; Managed 5 client resources to ensure collections for accounts prior to transition to a new vendor; Project focused on understanding the AR stream and developing strategies to collect for the outstanding credit; Led initiative to drive additional collections for AR stream that resulted in additional $100K in revenue.

San Antonio, Texas Area

I spent a year interning for Booz Allen Hamilton, a government consulting firm in their San Antonio office. There, I became proficient in data analysis and consolidation by working with AFCEC Real Property offices regarding their Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) activities. My role involved: researching and identifying the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) phase dates for over 300 environmental compliance sites analyzing similar trends across Air Force Bases, and performing Remedy-in-Place (RIP) site data collection and analysis for 40 BRAC Air Force Bases. I also helped drive value for Booz Allen internally through a San Antonio office marketing plan. My activities included: creating a “market capture tool” to leverage existing business platforms to conduct business analysis and future forecasting in order to align strategic investments and predict future human capital requirements.

While at Trinity University, Mr. Chisholm was a student money manager in the Student Managed Fund class – one of eighteen chosen for the prestigious class. His team was responsible for managing and investing over $3 million of the university endowment in publicly-traded equities. He valued companies using financial ratio analysis, price multiples, growth models, DCF analysis and other techniques.

Madrid, Spain

Mr. Chisholm worked with an international consulting firm (based in Madrid) named Camacho y Seijas. He helped develop and execute projects for international clients, primarily supporting markets in Spain. His strategic advisory support helped the firm to identify business development opportunities in Europe. Responsibilities included: developing a SWOT analysis to research the success potential for opening a Spanish wine and tapas bar in England. He also researched wine industries, import / export regulations and the cultural barriers between England and Spain.

Dallas, Texas

Mr. Chisholm worked for a B2B lead generation firm named Vendere Partners in Dallas. He contacted prospective clients on a daily basis and exceeded goal of 50% conversion rate of attendees to registrations via cold calling information technology professionals.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Management And Strategy & Innovation

Activities and Societies: Graduate Business Council - Vice President of External Affairs, MBA+ Leadership Program - Team Leader, MBA.

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration: Finance And International Business, Bachelor Of Science In Spanish

Graduated Magna Cum Laude. Activities included Chi Delta Tau (local fraternity), Alpha Kappa Psi (Nu Pi Chapter), Trinity University.

International/Global Studies

Completed the Semester at Sea program through University of Virginia and the Institute of Shipboard Education. Took fifteen credit hours.