Experienced Professional with Finance and Marketing background.
Kansas City, Missouri Area
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- Revenue Assurance Supervisor at Sprint Nextel
- Team Lead - Traffic Analyst at Sprint
- Project Manager at Sprint
- IT Contractor at Advantagetech
- Management Consultant at Grant Thornton
- Internal Auditor - Distribution Center Operations at Kmart
- Distribution Center Associate at Kmart
- Education
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- University of Kansas - Graduate School of Business
- University of Kansas
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Mark Kern’s Summary
Experienced professional with a broad range of expertise in operations experience including financial management, revenue assurance and project management. Proven abilities in managing multiple priorities and building consensus in telecommunications and logistics.
Mark Kern’s Specialties:
• Organization, team building, leadership
• Project management, managing multiple priorities
• Process improvement, analysis
Mark Kern’s Experience
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Revenue Assurance Supervisor
Sprint Nextel
(Public Company; S; Telecommunications industry)
October 2005 — March 2009 (3 years 6 months)
• Direct supervision of the work of developing professionals, and skilled non-exempt staff.
• Oversee the analysis of billing metrics to ensure financial integrity of the billing process and develop get-well plans to implement short and long-term sustainable improvements to processes and tools.
• Responsible for identification of revenue leakage throughout the revenue process flow.
• Conducts revenue audits and develops processes to enable the company to ensure that all revenue due is collected and tracked accurately.
• Lead cost/benefit analysis and impact assessment efforts to determine optimal courses of action to meet customer, shareholder, and employee needs. -
Team Lead - Traffic Analyst
Sprint
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; S; Telecommunications industry)
February 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 9 months)
Responsible for the analysis of business processes to identify impacts to operational results and performing analysis of metrics in order to develop forecasts and improve the business.
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Project Manager
Sprint
(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)
April 2001 — July 2002 (1 year 4 months)
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IT Contractor
Advantagetech
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1999 — April 2001 (2 years )
provided services for several client organizations including Sprint PCS, Concannon Insurance Group and Sprint.
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Management Consultant
Grant Thornton
(Telecommunications industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years )
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Internal Auditor - Distribution Center Operations
Kmart
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; KM; Retail industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year )
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Distribution Center Associate
Kmart
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; KM; Retail industry)
1989 — 1996 (7 years )
Performed various warehouse functions.
Mark Kern’s Education
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University of Kansas - Graduate School of Business
MBA , Business - Marketing , 1989 — 1990
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University of Kansas
Bachelor of Science , Business - Economics , 1983 — 1987
Additional Information
Mark Kern’s Websites:
Mark Kern’s Groups:
Knights of Columbus
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Lee Hecht Harrison's Kansas City Client & Alumni Group -
Knights of Columbus -
Wireless Telecommunications Worldwide -
Catholic Networkers -
Kansas University -
LHH Alumni Network -
Kansas Alumni -
Catholic Professionals -
SPRINT NEXTEL CONNECTIONS GROUP -
Grant Thornton Alumni Network -
University of Kansas School of Business Alumni -
Revenue Assurance Professionals -
Kmart Alumni -
Career Change Central
Mark Kern’s Honors:
CIRM - Certified in Integrated Resource Management, APICS, October 2001
Master’s Certificate in Project Management, ESI Intl/ George Washington University, March 2005
Mark Kern’s Contact Settings
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