SUMMARY:

• Marketing Technology / Program Driver and Lead / Executive Client Relationships /Engagement Lead
• Innovative, resourceful executive with 15 years of experience spearheading strategic initiatives for high - profile programs.
• Expert Confidential managing innovation and technology.
• Strategic planning and implementation for global products including coordinating technology, marketing, delivery, and support.
• Collaborative communicator focused on leading large complex teams, developing positive client relationships, and promoting collaboration across business units to achieve goals.
• Budget Administration/Management
• Project Management Methodologies
• Excellent Presentation and Communication Skills
• Staff Development Programs
• Financial Management and Planning

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Strategic Planning and Implementation
• Product Development & Management
• Client Lead Confidential C Level
• Research - based Planning
• Go-To-Market Strategies/Product Launches

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Program/Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Develops and implements the technology roadmap including coordinating project assignments with Product Managers to ensure alignment with strategic plans and initiatives.
• Supervises and supports Product Managers by developing and communicating key market features, organizing review with leadership, and preparing for market release.
• Coordinates efforts and provides guidance to ensure alignment with strategic initiatives.
• Provides leadership to a wide variety of professionals for product ideation, strategic planning, and implementation. Successfully created and marketed new products and incremental developments to key income generating products.
• Led strategic planning with key business contacts and department leadership. Oversaw roadmap and drove expectations with market-oriented planning through the use of market input, analytics, and expert opinions from internal and external sources.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the scope, quality, budget, and resources of software development projects designed to enhance corporate supply chain initiatives.
• Managed with Minimum Viable Product in planning process.
• Completed two projects during tenure; supply chain synchronization and containerization enhancements for cargo shipping.
• Managed and motivated teams of 30 for each project in a matrix organization.
• Administered budgets and completed financial management and reporting requirements ensuring cost containment.
• Produce results that met short term feasibility and acceptability analysis.
• Delivered supply chain synchronization software that enhanced visibility of product annual demand for vendors allowing them to anticipate production levels and delivery schedules.
• Achieved on-time and on-budget delivery of containerization enhancement software resulting in savings of $20M per year by calculating methods to pack more material in each shipping container.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Director

Responsibilities:

• Established and led long-term strategic planning, business development, and account management activities for all client activities.
• Founder and owner of an information technology consulting company.
• Led a team of 10 employees and provided oversight for up to 200 client employees.
• Executive leadership for all company products. High-profile corporate clients in the finance, telecom, real estate, retail, and insurance industries.
• Guided large, cross-functional teams, utilizing roadmaps and product management tracking tools to manage the software development life-cycle (SDLC), and ensure on-time and on-budget delivery.
• Led strategic planning and development for highly visible programs with budgets of $20M+ for Confidential & Confidential, overseeing software management with architects, business analysts. Simultaneously managed numerous SDLC and Agile projects in a matrix, cross-functional environment.
• Increased online sales, event registration, and provided a dynamic research tool for members of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry through the development and implementation of an improved Internet portal that was completed on-time and 15% under the $3.5M budget.
• Completed a $5.8M project to develop and implement a customer relationship management system (CRM) and property valuation application for Confidential providing a standard method for commercial real estate brokers to track clients, sales, and analyze commercial transactions.
• Engaged numerous times by Confidential to lead and troubleshoot challenging projects working with various organizational clients to develop and implement software systems that included a labor management system, a supply-chain system, and a pro-business pricing tool, called Bid Room which assessed large purchases and provided discount pricing for more than 2,000 stores.
• Designed complex benefit and compensation system to calculate executive compensation for Confidential .
• Worked with EVP HR and the compensation board to target human resource planning.