SUMMARY:

I am an energetic, results - oriented Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Project Manager and Change Agent. I spent the last 14 years leading projects and delivering results that have a positive impact on organizations’ performance.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Create and execute strategic vision
• Building and leading project teams
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership
• Proven management, development and negotiation skills
• Process design and reengineering
• Agile and waterfall project management
• Project pipeline and roadmap development
• Stakeholder and vendor relationship management

SKILLS

• Project/program manager, process improvement expert
• Results-oriented problem solver
• Strong analytical skills
• Positive people person and influencer
• Change management leader
• Conflict resolution, fostering learning and building productive relationships
• MS Office Suite: Word, Excel, Project, Access, PowerPoint
• MS Visio, eVSM: Process and Value Stream Mapping
• Minitab: Statistical Analysis
• SharePoint, Confluence, Jira: Collaborative Platforms
• Hyperion, Oracle: Financial Systems
• Salesforce.com: Customer Relationship Management
• Qualtrics: Experience Management
• WebEx, Skype: Telecommunications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NEW YORK

Director, Chief of Staff to the Chief Financial Officer

Responsibilities:

• Supported the CFO and the Finance Leadership Team (FLT) consisting of 30 Executives.
• Cultivated relationships with the FLT and established a deep understanding of the organization s strategic business vision.
• Managed numerous projects simultaneously of varying complexity and timelines in a fast - paced environment.
• Planned and coordinated the bi-annual Finance Forum; collaborated with and managed all vendors, customers and internal and external speakers.
• Developed global travel agendas and coordinated with all regions on meeting content, presentations, media events, town halls and customer meetings.
• Partnered with the FLT on preparation of quarterly and annual operating reviews, and with Worldwide Communications on internal and external communications.

Director, Product Management Excellence (PME)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with product developers, business teams and technology groups to ensure successful and timely product launches, resulting in a 10% increase of the core and digital product portfolios.
• Optimized PME and PMO processes with implementation of waterfall and agile project management processes, development tools and techniques resulting in a 25% reduction of product deliverable cycle time. Refined peer review/stage gate processes.
• Became subject matter expert of the product pipeline and salesforce.com product catalog to efficiently and effectively support open sales opportunities.
• Optimized PMO portfolio processes including project prioritization, selection criteria and training for the product organization; established PMO status reporting to broaden communications, improve stakeholder engagement and manage risk mitigation procedures.

Business Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided consultation and facilitation of Lean Six Sigma projects supporting enterprise process and performance engineering and re - engineering initiatives utilizing DMAIC and DFSS methodologies including VOC, Value Stream Mapping and identification of automated process improvements.
• Spearheaded numerous successful cross-functional process and transformation projects resulting in 99% reduction of manual processes, an annual overall cost savings $775K and ROI of $1M. Drove enhanced customer experience, quality management, operational excellence, change management and continuous improvement throughout the organization.
• Facilitated Kaizen events where teams quickly identified and implemented business and operational process improvements.
• Co-developed the Lean Six Sigma training curriculum, provided instruction to over 200 students globally and mentored 25+ Green Belt candidates.

Business Leader, Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led global implementation and adoption of Hyperion budget and forecasting solution resulting in 35% decreased cycle time.
• Partnered with Financial Systems and identified, prioritized and performed small - scale IT enhancement projects to further improve the budget and forecasting processes.
• Collaborated with the OCFO and several business areas to prepare the quarterly and annual operating reviews.

Confidential, NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Director, Expense Management

Responsibilities:

• Managed a large - scale initiative to implement the Hyperion budget and forecast solution, resulting in reduced cycle time by 45% and annual cost savings of $150K.
• Partnered with cross-functional business and technology teams to successfully manage internal and vendor scope, time and cost to ensure timely completion of implementation.
• Led additional projects of varying complexity to improve service to clients and performance across functions including reporting efficiencies of 25%.
• Guided process owners in voice of customer, capability maturity measurements, project selection and project management for Lean Six Sigma projects.
• Utilized DMAIC, DFSS and DIDVO methodologies including voice of customer collection and analysis, process and value stream mapping, statistical analysis, capability assessments, simulations and process automation.
• Facilitated Kaizen events, trained team members and managed several projects resulting in a combined, significant annual cost savings of $4.5M and improved the customer experience overall.
• Mentored 15+ Lean Six Sigma Green Belt candidates.