SUMMARY:

• Initiate budget requests and project funding to support a portfolio of global IT Proof of Concepts (POC) focused on emerging technologies such as Smart Mobility and Autonomous Vehicle
• Create documentation for financial review/approval and initiate requests for purchase requisitions
• Facilitate Statement of Work (SOW), finalize deliverables and pricing, and confirm contract terms and conditions
• Define procurement path, supplier sourcing, and internal billing mechanisms
• Facilitate project kickoff sessions and monthly project reviews to support financial forecast accuracy, and identify and remediate issues/risks
• Hands - on responsibility for project life cycle components from initiation to closing including scope, requirements, budget tracking, procurement, resource allocation, and reporting
• Invoice review, reconciliation and approval for supplier payment
• Review and approve man-time hours for internal resources and reconcile to forecasts
• Track project budgets to monthly forecasts and actuals

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Global Project Leadership
• Enterprise Financial Management
• Change Management
• Problem Solving
• Cross - functional Management
• Backoffice Competencies
• Revenue Capture
• Sourcing/Supplier Management
• Client & Stakeholder Relations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

GLOBAL IT INNOVATION PROJECT MANAGER - Enterprise Emerging IT

Confidential

• Responsible for global IT Innovation proof of concept (POCs) experiments exploring emerging technologies
• Full engagement with cross-functional teams to launch global POCs quickly
• Facilitate governance reviews, budget initiation, supplier sourcing, procurement and financial management
• Leverage corporate teams (eg: Contracts, Legal, Purchasing, Tax, Import Export, etc.) and external suppliers to minimize risk while defining the “fast-path” to POC launch
• Organizational scope include Emerging Technologies IT teams in Dearborn and Palo Alto, as well as Product Development Research & Analytics POCs in Palo Alto
• Successfully launched and managed POCs in UK, Germany, Australia and India

SENIOR SERVICES CONSULTANT - Account Business Management

Confidentia, Pontiac, MI

• Led the Ally (formerly GMAC) D2D global contract transition, identifying and transitioning 25,000+ assets in 25 countries from HP to IBM support. Project scope included asset validation for location, warranty, maintenance, and lease data. Reduced warehouse expense by physically transferring and/or disposing of stored assets no longer in scope
• Led the Nexteer /HP 2011 invoice reconciliation billed in-country, across 10 countries in order to mitigate audit and financial risks. Identified non-compliances and tax issues impacting five countries, and engaged corporate tax and billing teams to remediate and ensure accuracy global audit compliance
• Facilitated $600,000 in revenue recovery by identifying over 100 unbilled agreements and engaged global teams to complete revenue capture
• Financial Field Validation (FFV) project confirmed asset data accuracy to ensure compliance with service level agreements (SLAs), and cost avoidance of penalties
• Responsible for account business management and project leadership for global contracts
• Account business management cross-functional experience interfacing with delivery teams, clients and global business management support teams to remediate issues, ensure compliance, and revenue recovery
• Contract Change Control’s (CCC) for GM global contracts. Validated financial data and initiated changes to the invoice; performed annual CCC true-up ensuring prior year’s cost adjustments were integrated into new sustain agreements and purchase orders
• Managed changing priorities in a dynamic business environment including contract changes, supplier transitions, client divestitures, tool migrations, data reconciliations and designing the future business models

SENIOR BUSINESS INTEGRATOR - Global Business Office

Confidential (EDS) - Pontiac, MI

• Successfully transitioned financial obligations to the new legal entity. Created a stand-alone business model to support the new client as a separate legal entity from the parent company (GM
• Global transition lead defining a new support model for the client regions of China, Japan, Brazil, and Europe; the divestiture de-scoped 25,000 assets from GM and required the transfer of financial obligations
• In North America, transitioned 1200 third party hardware leases for 9 lessors, directed billing cutover, and the transfer of financial obligation from HP to the new client;
• Obtained new client purchase orders to fund 100 lease agreements and synchronized the billing cutover from GM to ATI, and completed the project within nine months
• Responsible for Powertrain and Allison Transmission account support including divestiture activities
• Liaison between process areas and delivery teams to ensure timely delivery of product and services
• Provided business analysis, problem identification and remediation to ensure invoice accuracy and monitor payment activity
• Project leader supporting the GM divestiture of Allison Transmission

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST - GM Powertrain Account

Confidential (EDS) - Pontiac, MI

• Led revenue recovery activities at the divisional level resulting in additional revenue of $400,000
• Supported the implementation of new billing processes to ensure SOXA compliance
• Participated in system testing and developed test cases for an electronic invoicing tool
• Led tool migrations and application upgrades to improve the request management process
• Responsible for account business management tools, processes, and client relationships
• Managed billing and invoicing for 17 business units, and resolved client payment issues