Experience

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  Allied trades, inc.

  Mar 1990 - Aug 1995

  Administrative manager

  Manage office administration and reporting for a commercial and residential construction company.

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  Goddard data management

  Aug 1995 - Jan 1998

  Owner

  Develop office procedures, hire office staff, maintain accounting records, and provide financial advice for small business contractors.

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  Valassis

  Feb 1998 - Sept 2013

  Established and led a diverse team responsible for optimizing the efficiency and quality of media distribution contract negotiations. Lead teams responsible for maintaining national rate and distribution data, maximizing revenue opportunities and mitigating costs by negotiating terms with media distribution partners representing up to 7,000 agreements. Work with customers, sales, vendors and other internal stakeholders to resolve distribution issues. Responsible for leading a department of 17 employees who maintained a database of facts used to responsibly recommend print products for ~15,000 customers and distribute to 14,500 media outlets in more than 60 million homes throughout the country. Responsible for development and launch of a new cooperative product extension, executing a key vendor contract for the organization’s primary product line, and managing efficiencies and annual expenditures within a multi-million dollar cost center. Supervise teams responsible for maximizing profit while accommodating customers’ desired, but often conflicting, promotion schedules within the ~$600M cooperative insert product. Collaborate with sales and legal counsel for significant customer contract and promotion conflict (category exclusivity) negotiations. Responsible for managing customer reservations and orders in honor of contractual category exclusivity agreements. Responsible for processing reservations, orders and changes for $463M cooperative insert product.

  • Manager, Media Services Client Team

    Aug 2009 - Sept 2013

  • Manager, Media Negotiations and Information Services

    Sept 2006 - Aug 2009

  • Supervisor, Information Services

    Jan 2006 - Aug 2006

  • Associate Product Manager

    Apr 2004 - Jan 2006

  • Category Manager / Supervisor

    Dec 2000 - Mar 2004

  • Assistant Category Manager

    Jan 2000 - Dec 2000

  • Order Processor

    Feb 1998 - Jan 2000
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  Harland clarke / valassis

  Sept 2013 - Aug 2017

  Responsible for working with executives from the parent company to implement a new strategic initiative planning process, managing confidential and complex projects and supporting multiple business units in a shared services environment. Responsible for leading and managing all aspects of assigned projects including project planning, execution, post-implementation reviews and realization of benefits. Partner with executive sponsors and business unit leaders to determine success criteria, maximize resources, manage change and mitigate project risk throughout the project life cycle.

  • Director, Program and Project Management

    Mar 2016 - Aug 2017

  • Sr. Project Manager / Process Engineer

    Sept 2013 - Mar 2016
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  Michigan performance excellence

  Mar 2015 - now

  Sr. examiner

  Help organizations improve performance and gain a competitive advantage by working within a team of 8-10 industry experts using a systems perspective to identify and recommend specific and meaningful improvement opportunities and to evaluate applicants for the Malcolm Baldrige Award - the only presidential award for performance excellence and innovation. Share and learn successful performance practices, principles and strategies with medical, non-profit, educational and manufacturing organizations.Provide detailed assessments of strengths and opportunities for improvement to senior leadership in the areas of leadership, strategy, customers, workforce, operations, measurement / analysis / knowledge management, and results. This is an unpaid, voluntary commitment to organizational excellence, the State of Michigan and the United States. Show less

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  Vericast

  Aug 2017 - now

  Executive director, program and project management

  Objectively leading complex organizational projects as assigned by C-level leadership.