
Project/Program Manager, Organizational Development. Awarded for Leadership, Teamwork, Results
Portland, Oregon Area

Project/Program Manager, Organizational Development. Awarded for Leadership, Teamwork, Results
Portland, Oregon Area
A challenging position with a dynamic enterprise; encompassing my proven skills in leadership, planning, and innovation to enable the organization to accomplish much more.
Organizational development, technology, finance, supply chain, communication, best practices, planning, team building, productivity, risk management, data analysis and transformation, integration, migration, contract and HR law.
(Management Consulting industry)
July 2002 — Present (6 years 5 months)
Currently a Senior Information Systems Analyst consutant.
Consulted in behavioral interviewing and organizational management. Construction project manager, all phases, lot partition. Completed a property sale in July 2008. Construction project manager, including funding, plans, permits, subs, and sale. Net $310K. Published articles on process improvement, project management, productivity, organizational and team focus, hiring, and SEO. Developed a service company website, providing the statement of work, reviewing graphics, layout, coding, and documentation, writing content, and performing acceptance testing, turnover, and maintenance. Provided business start-up assistance, including resources to protect business assets. Wrote the time line, resources, and budget proposal for a City of Portland QA contract. Developed a residential construction website, providing graphics and layout, coding, content.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NKE; Sporting Goods industry)
February 2000 — April 2002 (2 years 3 months)
I ran a project to develop an algorithm to reduce shipping container usage. This was accomplished by tracking customer order fulfillment from many overseas factories, through consolidators, to Nike warehouses worldwide. Comparing shipping cartons to container assignments showed the smallest containers that could be used and resulted in savings estimated at $1M a year. I also analyzed and wrote the USA Legacy to SAP Conversion Gap Analysis, attending many meetings with Legacy and SAP Supply Chain process owners to learn what data was already accounted for and what was missing. Further, I optimized Canada reporting from SAP/BI to Oracle, documented and learned from the owners of Business Intelligence and Survey applications, recommending alternatives and consolidating licenses, and integrated online Production and Development trouble-tracking systems.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NKE; Sporting Goods industry)
December 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 2 months)
Nike Y2K Core Team Program Manager and Global Finance Program Manager. Created a high degree of certainty that every Nike operation would process ‘century’ correctly. Represented Audit and Legal. Met all 150+ project teams to provide direction, resources, budget, and oversight. Defined and directed global compliance. Drafted the Y2K test lab process. Accountability: $3M Finance, $7M Global. Results: Flawless Y2K execution. Daily sales $25M. CIO and Y2K awards.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NKE; Sporting Goods industry)
July 1995 — December 1998 (3 years 6 months)
Supervised the Finance Legacy team. Global Customer, Product, Credit Check. USA Invoice, Claims, Accounts Receivable, Profitability, and International financial reporting. Proposed, evaluated, negotiated, contracted, and rolled out Nike Outsourcing, and in the end outsourced Finance Legacy IT to TATA Consultancy, India. Wrote retention policy for the CIO. CIO Spot Award.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NKE; Sporting Goods industry)
October 1994 — July 1995 (10 months)
Coordinated from the Netherlands with three other leads and global resources to replace and integrate independent European order, distribution, and finance systems. 1995 Nike Leadership Award.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NKE; Sporting Goods industry)
November 1988 — October 1994 (6 years)
Led Customer, Credit, and Accounts Receivable IT staff. Replaced A/R and Credit, on time and on budget. Modeled customer databases to match any customer sales organization. Used USPS data and software to clean up customer addresses. Satisfied corporate concerns for labor, purpose, risk, quality, flexibility, and value.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NKE; Sporting Goods industry)
November 1987 — November 1988 (1 year 1 month)
Managed the customer order management system. Researched, wrote, and implemented Availability; an online module combining product need date, outstanding customer orders, and inventory with factory orders and lead-time. Integrated batch and online support teams. Implemented test and turnover procedures. Huge team, quality, and performance improvement.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)
1986 — 1987 (1 year)
AmeriCold deals primarily in crop plants and food, for instance with Coors and Ore-Ida. I was responsible for all development of a new warehouse management system, from customer order through inbound and outbound transportation, as well as training for and becoming the IBM DB2 DBA. I redesigned and implemented databases and applications and created and participated in on-site warehouse training. My biggest success was getting contractor participation on track, improving project communication and accountability with schedules, integrated testing, issue tracking, and budget control.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Automotive industry)
1984 — 1986 (2 years)
Riviera Motors held the NW [Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, N California] licenses to distribute Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche automobiles and parts to dealer operations as well as managing Riviera and dealer inventories. My role was to learn and optimize processes and applications as well as to bring IT staff up to current best practices and track dealer training. I worked extensively with the Parts Department, in particular the automatic reorder system, which used Riviera and dealer inventory and parts parameters [eg order history, inventory levels, end-customer fulfillment risk, and time-based expected usage]. Many dealers used these automated order and inventory systems for all their parts vendors, such as Ford and Chevrolet. I also reviewed warehouse processes including wireless controls.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NKE; Sporting Goods industry)
1982 — 1984 (2 years)
Led Corporate Order Processing, Sales Analysis, Co-Op Advertising, and Apparel Bookings. As International Liaison, replaced and integrated International systems, including Pro-Forma, Order, Sales Analysis, Accounts Receivable, Transportation Tracking, and Finance and Corporate interfaces. Aside from eliminating entry duplication and subsequent errors and customs problems, it was necessary to accurately forecast customer country demand and beat competitors for import quotas, essential to grow the business. In all I produced and tracked work requests, trained users, and represented IT in policy, standards, and direction.
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
1975 — 1982 (7 years)
Created scientific and business systems. Performed advanced statistics and experimental design. Major improvements in budget reporting, gene mapping analysis, psychological profiling, and transplant donor selection. Published in ‘Human Gene Mapping 4’.
MS Management, Financial Analysis, Decision Making, HR Law, Contracts
BS Business, Business Processes, Mathematics, Statistics, Philosophy