Professional Speaker, Author, Business Coach, Career Coach: DVD "Networking For Results" www.cyberlifetutors.com
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- DVD "Networking For Results" www.cyberlifetutors.com at CyberLife Tutors
- Professional Speaker, Author, Business Coach, Career Coach,Entrepreneur at CyberLife Tutors (Sole Proprietorship)
- 808Talk Guest Blogger at 808 Talk Insider Guide to Hawaii
- Contributing Editor at Blacks Gone Geek
- Chief Twitterer at Twitterer
- Career Coach and Public Speaker at Career Tips Newsletter - Email CyberLifeTutors.E@aweber.com (Sole Proprietorship)
- Chicago Board Member/Project Manager at Women in Technology International
- Co-owner at Williams Global Enterprises
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- Director, Organizational Initiatives at Career Education Corporation
- Project Manager at Allstate Insurance Co.
- Project Manager Sears.com at Sears
- Business Analyst at Sears Roebuck & Co.
- Education
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- Project Management Institute
- Roosevelt University
- Roosevelt University
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April M. Williams’s Summary
Inspiring and motivating keynote speaker available for your next event. Contact April@cyberlifetutors.com for booking information.
April M. Williams, nationally recognized professional speaker, author who finds success in helping people build their personal marketing and branding to positively impact their career. Small changes in presentation to others can bring about easy, productive and profitable results. April is wowing audiences throughout the Chicago area. April has also authored an e-book and numerous articles on career building as well as other related business topics. She has been featured in for major publications including the Wall Street Journal, Project Management Institute, Savvy and Nations Restaurant News. April is a contributing editor to the Blacks Gone Geek IT forum and Hawaii travel website http://www.808talk.com. April was interviewed for Cache-A-Maniacs geocaching and Marketing Wizard podcasts.
April also holds the designation of being a Project Management Professional (PMP), a designation given by the Project Management Institute recognizing demonstrated knowledge and skill in leading and directing project teams and in delivering project results within the constraints of schedule, budget and resources.
Prior to launching her speaking and coaching career, April led technical projects and programs for Fortune 50 companies. April’s career has included creating alignment across organizational boundaries and building consensus despite multiple agendas. April has transformed her skills in working with people, process and technology to leverage social media and personal marketing for career and business development.
April’s personal marketing, project organization and job search programs offer audiences practical business strategies and insight that can produce profitable bottom-line results.
Guest blogger at http://www.808talk.com/author/amwilliams/
April M. Williams’s Specialties:
Professional speaker, social media expert helps business owners and job seekers leverage the best of online and personal connections.
• Professional Speaker
• Author
• Business Coach
• Career Development
• Workshops and Training
• Personal Marketing
• Project Management
Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, Social Marketing, Social Networking, Marketing, training, coach, coaching, career coach, business coach,
April M. Williams’s Experience
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DVD "Networking For Results" www.cyberlifetutors.com
CyberLife Tutors
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
October 2009 — Present (2 months)
Networking for Results DVD - 51 min presentation. In today's competitive market, success in your job search depends on effective marketing. If you have not perfected your in-person and online relationship building, you could be missing out on the perfect next opportunity. Find out more and get your copy at www.Cyberlifetutors.com
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Professional Speaker, Author, Business Coach, Career Coach,Entrepreneur
CyberLife Tutors (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Individual & Family Services industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Professional speaker for keynote presentations, motivational speeches capturing wowing diverse audiences from business to job seekers.
Career coach helping those stuck in there job search or who desire the skills to make a postive impression on hiring managers or prospective clients. Are you unsure what's next. Career exploration to determine the next chapter in your professional career including assessments of you strengths and skills.
We map out where you want to take your career, determine milestones then together, we take the journey to arrive at your career destination.
Co-Owner of Williams Global Enterprises: Software developed for the publishing industry. Real Estate partnership owner and property management.
WITI Chicago Network Board member: Local event project manager and business relationship manager.
LION - Open Networker -
808Talk Guest Blogger
808 Talk Insider Guide to Hawaii
(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Guest blogger, frequent visitor to Hawaii and a great friend of 808Talk Hawaii Travel and Visitor information website.
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Contributing Editor
Blacks Gone Geek
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Blacks Gone Geek, a social networking initiative dedicated to promoting African Americans in IT. We call this keepin' IT real.
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Chief Twitterer
Twitterer
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Follow me at http://twitter.com/AprilMWilliams
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Career Coach and Public Speaker
Career Tips Newsletter - Email CyberLifeTutors.E@aweber.com (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Individual & Family Services industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
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Chicago Board Member/Project Manager
Women in Technology International
(Publishing industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)
Current responsibilities include managing annual Chicago Excellence in IT Leadership awards event, relationship management and local promotions. Delivering training and coaching sessions including project management skills.
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Co-owner
Williams Global Enterprises
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
August 1980 — Present (29 years 4 months)
Principle in global micro-conglomerate consisting of wholly owned subsidiaries and joint ventures in consulting, training, coaching, travel, software development, real estate and other opportunities.
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Director, Organizational Initiatives
Career Education Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CECO; Education Management industry)
July 2007 — February 2008 (8 months)
Director of Organizational Initiatives, a member of a team developing and enhancing organizational capabilities. I create focus for important strategic initiatives, manage attention, provide "the glue" that helps drive improvements across the organization.
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Project Manager
Allstate Insurance Co.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; All; Insurance industry)
January 2002 — July 2007 (5 years 7 months)
Responsible for developing projects from concept through kickoff including identifying business needs, developing technology options, estimating cost/duration, identifying project resources, and providing input into the cost-benefit analysis for large-scale 50K–5MM$$ cross functional projects. Participated in development of systems, tools, processes to enhance project initiation.
Participated in design/launch of structured, centralized project initiation process, practices with repeatable processes, standard artifacts, predictable results.
Partnered with business and technology to develop solutions for strategic, technically complex, high risk cross functional initiatives. Drove scope definition from idea to project kick off using standard processes and artifacts while delivering a flexible approach to meet business needs.
Catalyst for aligning disparate business and technology partners and project features, capabilities and priorities.
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Project Manager Sears.com
Sears
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Retail industry)
April 1999 — January 2002 (2 years 10 months)
Managed and implemented projects supporting Sears e-commerce sites and marketing initiatives.
Instrumental in successful launch of Broadvision based toolterritory.com web site.
Assisted in multi-million dollar contract negotiations for E.piphany software and services.
Partnered with business and technical teams to successfully select CRM vendor who could meet the diverse business and technical requirements of sears.com.
Led development team of associates and contractors to purchase hardware, software and custom development for web based E.piphany CRM application.
Administered campaign management project, which provided marketing team the flexibility to create ad hoc email marketing campaigns on demand.
Supervised email marketing production support team. Sent in excess of 2-5 million emails each week, directly influencing 6.5% of website sales.
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Business Analyst
Sears Roebuck & Co.
(Public Company; SHLD; Retail industry)
November 1997 — April 1999 (1 year 6 months)
Business Analyst – Sears Credit
☛Liaison with business and technical team to shape and redesign process improvements. Part of virtual team designing, developing, testing and implementing call center workflows
☛Managed training initiative for Credit department field associates. Transferred knowledge from development team to regional sites, which enables a higher level of support for end customers
☛Designed and implemented a Lotus Notes database for tracking credit systems availability, which provided a simple method of tracking incidents and understanding root cause of downtime
☛Part of a diverse virtual team that created quality workflow designs including business rules, reducing agent training from 3 months to 1 week. Tested Pega, a Windows NT GUI client server application used by Sears Credit call center agents
☛Set up/supported a process for creating and maintaining standard Windows 95 laptop builds and creating custom builds as needed to solve specific business problems
April M. Williams’s Education
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Project Management Institute
Project Management Professional (PMP) , Project Management , 2005 — 2005
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Roosevelt University
Master of Science in Information Systems , Information systems , 1993 — 2002
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Roosevelt University
Bachelor of General Studies , Telecommunications
Additional Information
April M. Williams’s Interests:
Professional speaker, coaching, consulting, career, development, web 2.0, training, education, business development, partnerships, Hawaii 808talk.com, Blacks Gone Geek, WITI, 808Talk, Facebook, Twitter, webinar, Toastmasters, resume, job searches, career development
April M. Williams’s Groups:
Member Project Management Institute (PMl), Chicagoland PMI Chapter, Project Management Office local interest group, Women in Technology (WITI), LIONS, TopLinkedIn, IT Executives Accountability, Pay it Forward
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April M. Williams’s Honors:
PMP Project Management Professional, Toastmasters Competent Communicator (CC), Competent Leader (CL), Advanced Communicator Bronze (ACB)
April M. Williams’s Contact Settings
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- career opportunities
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