Summary

• Business Analysis/Project Management / Strategic Planning / Process Improvement/Organizational Redesign / Decision Support / Six Sigma Lean / Critical Systems Thinking
• A cross-functional process integration and organizational alignment leader, I use critical thinking, project management, and strategic planning skills to help identify then solve critical business challenges such as vision, purpose, core values, or process/system improvements. By researching and analyzing basic/complex issues surrounding processes and structure of an organization, I make recommendations and assist in implementation

Core Competencies

• Business Analysis
• Systems Thinking
• Project Management
• Trend Forecasting
• Strategic Management
• Descriptive Analytics
• Predictive Analytics
• Business Intelligence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager, Systems Engineering Contractor

• Project Management/Integrated Scheduling expert contracted for healthcare diagnostic instrumentation R D program.
• Applied Project Management concepts and methodologies across functions for planning and control of multi-million dollar program.

• Restructured and managed program level integrated schedules and plans for common design and multiple configuration testing.
• Liaised between Program Management and design and test engineers to assure progress toward market launch.
• Reviewed project scope to adjust critical path to maintain go-to-market date.
• Tracked and coordinated availability and use of modules for testing.
• Assisted Systems Engineering in complying with company and FDA product development and documentation requirements. Harmonized project management and practices across three formerly separate enterprises jointly developing innovative products.

Confidential

Strategic Business Analytics Consultant

• Management consultant contributing significant experience in business analysis and project planning to aerospace R D pioneers.
• Developing integrated schedules and cost estimates in support of DoD and commercial proposal submissions for revolutionary design, development, fabrication and testing of rotorcraft vehicles.
• Guiding business strategy development of rotorcraft technology for renewable energy application.
• Providing guidance in process and procedure standardization in compliance with AS 9100 and CMMI certifications while maintaining the flexibility needed by an experimental aircraft company.

Confidential

Manager Inventory Planning

• Proven consumer goods forecasting professional who aided established shoe care products distributor in revising planning functions.
• Established inventory planning processes, methodologies and systems for international shoe care products distributor with >6,000 SKUs and 35M in annual sales.

• Downloaded canned report data to Excel to develop analyses and establish minimum stocks levels to increase inventory turn rate from < 3.2 to nearly 4 turns per year.
• Integrated enterprise operations with product development and marketing to establish processes to be incorporated for evolving sporting goods side of business.

Confidential

Business Operations/Integrated Scheduling Specialist

• EVM subject Matter expert who integrated EVM/Project Management ideology throughout V-22 program.
• Developed, analyzed and managed budget/schedule baseline for contracted statements of work while launching cross- operating group integration.
• Developed integrated schedules for contract proposals and for cost reduction initiatives based on scope review in conjunction with technical colleagues.
• Served on all V-22 configuration and change management boards.
• Accomplished detailed analyses in support of risk assessments and contingency/recovery plans.
• Managed integrated schedule baselines and provided schedule baseline change control authority.
• Represented Business Operations on Enterprise-wide Process Improvement Teams and Lean Initiatives.

Confidential

Director of Planning and Analysis

• Business planning and analysis expert who brought pioneering rotorcraft company in to 21st century.
• Established Earned Value Management System in compliance with DoD contract requirements.
• Was recognized as an EVM/Project Management subject matter expert
• Was accepted as the first non-engineer Deputy Program Manager by NAVAIR based on interaction with technical experts.
• Served on all configuration management and change review boards.
• Improved proposal development processes and procedures for additional major DoD aerospace program partnering and commercial work.
• Assisted in achieving contract modifications/transition to a first of its kind FAA Contractor Demo Program.
• Assisted in transitioning contract from Navy to Army as prime customer.
• Initiated Management Representative Position in pursuit of AS9100 certification and CMMI certification.

Confidential

Independent Contractor

• End user expert for IT contracting company
• Established marketing analysis methodologies, procedures, and systems for a leading communications company undergoing rapid expansion.
• Developed interim solutions while contributing to the creation of an enterprise-wide data warehouse system.

Confidential

Marketing Analysis Specialist

• Analytics professional who developed tools to manage forecasting of initial and back-end sales for leading international direct mail consumer goods marketing company.
• Streamlined procedures and developed methodologies to overcome staffing and IT systems resource limitations.
• Facilitated strategic planning in changing business environment.
• Liaised with all functions of organization to facilitate enterprise-wide use of systems for strategic business planning across international markets.
• Established business intelligence systems, tools, processes and procedures to assure upper management and potential outside investors of optimal review and forecasting of backend sales resulting in additional investment in analysis systems.
• Enabled sales growth from 850M.
• Served as super user for enterprise-wide program planning system and for initialization of data warehouse.