Brian McKenzie

Experience

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  Nationstar Mortgage

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2005

  SENIOR AREA MANAGER
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  Wells Fargo Home Mortgage

  Jul 2005 - Apr 2006

  RETAIL SALES SUPERVISOR
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  NovaStar Mortgage

  May 2006 - Sept 2007

  SITE DIRECTOR
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  Morgan Stanley

  Jan 2008 - Jul 2008

  RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

  • Prepared/presented Hedge Fund portfolio information for energy stocks to current/prospective clients.• Attended covered companies’ earnings calls and relayed information to all clients.• Mined earnings reports and various financial resources to collect information for clients published monthly.

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  Republic Services Inc

  Jan 2008 - Oct 2009

  PROFITABILITY ANALYST (National Accounts)

  • Created and maintained National Accounts Pricing Tool combining data from over 200 local districts.• Compiled and approved pricing for all National Accounts contracts with >$1MM annual spending.• Worked with local management teams to ensure profitability levels were acceptable.• Prepared final contracts and performed “true-ups” after 90 days from implementation to validate profitability.

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  Ricoh Business Solutions

  Nov 2009 - Sept 2012

  Area Process Program Manager

  • Designed, sold and implemented streamlines print environment saving clients several hundred thousand dollars through process improvement and inventory reduction.• On-boarded multiple Nationwide clients to Ricoh’s Managed Print Services Program through assessment of client’s current print environment in terms or processes, inventory and expenses.• Trained new and existing employees on monitoring software and process improvement.• Facilitated Change Management to minimize workflow disruption & sales opportunities for new hardware/software.• Served as Account Manager to manage billing and resolve all client relations issues in a timely manner. Show less

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  Chevron

  Sept 2012 - Sept 2016

  Project Manager / Senior IT Business Analyst / Consultant

  • Became the trusted advisor of 17 global Business Units and Chevron’s central ITC group to determine and streamline an effective process for application recording.• Improved overall Application Data Quality from 20% to 85% by helping to improve the Application Portfolio Catalog to encompass 78 data points for each of Upstream’s 8,000 applications.• Led project to upgrade Upstream’s 35,000 workstations from Windows Vista to Windows 7 and to Windows 10.• Built standardized functional application testing in each OS, eliminating redundancy for multiple business units.• Created first cross-business unit application inventory by scanning all machines and compiling information into an Access database used for report generation.• Introduced a new application on-boarding process that automatically inventoried applications and alerted team leads and compliance teams when new software was introduced into the Chevron environment.• Prepared and presented IT Reliability reports to Management via custom built reports & PowerPoint presentations. Show less

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  Vertex 3D Engineering and Distribution llc

  Aug 2016 - Oct 2018

  Co-Owner

  • Project Manager responsible for up to 20 engineering projects of varying degrees of complexity.• Procurement Manager for materials required to construct instrumentation panels & skids of varying purposes/sizes.• Assisted with Business Development as well as headed Inside Sales for existing clients for efficiency.• Responsible for all Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and inventory record-keeping.

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  Sagacity Allstream Fabrication Engineering Inc

  Oct 2018 - now

  Co-Owner
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  City of Houston

  Sept 2020 - now

  • Division Manager

    Apr 2023 - now

  • Staff Analyst

    Sept 2020 - Apr 2023