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Global Commodity Manager IT Software & Software Services

LBR Innovations, LLC

Advisor

• Strategic Investments in Tech and AI: Achieved a 22% ROI across 12+ companies through targeted investments in emerging tech, AI, and innovation-driven start-ups.
• Increased Portfolio Value through Market Forecasting: Conducted market analysis and trend forecasting, enhancing portfolio value by 25% with data-backed insights into high-growth sectors.
• Lifecycle Analysis for Enhanced Returns: Applied lifecycle analysis and reporting to optimize start-up investments, leading to a 25% increase in ROI for technology and digital media ventures.

Investor (Tech, AI, Innovation)

• Boosted Engagement through SEO and Optimization: Increased website traffic and social media engagement by 50% by optimizing 300+ web pages and 12 profiles, leveraging SEO and audience-focused content.
• Delivered High-Quality Content with High Satisfaction: Produced 35+ premium articles and blogs with a 96% client satisfaction rate, increasing repeat business by 15%.
• Refined Content Strategy with Data-Driven Insights: Analyzed performance metrics to optimize content strategies, enhancing user engagement and conversion rates while providing actionable client recommendations.

Digital Copywriter/Ghostwriter

Undisclosed

• Optimized Global IT Vendor Management: Spearheaded vendor management initiatives, achieving a 15% cost reduction through strategic contract consolidation and partnership alignment.
• Enhanced Software Procurement Efficiency: Overhauled procurement processes, aligning strategies with organizational goals to achieve a 20% faster procurement cycle.
• Managed SaaS Budgets and Forecasting: Led SaaS expenditure management with accurate forecasting and financial analysis, reducing overall spending by 10%.

Program Manager, Technology Sourcing

Out of Ink, Inc.

• Led strategic planning initiatives that drove the development of secure, high-performance Web3 components, optimizing team performance and resource allocation.
• Directed annual budgeting, reducing expenses by 10% through strategic cost management and optimized resource allocation.
• Conducted comprehensive program analyses, leading to a 12% overall efficiency and productivity increase.
• Managed developing and deploying innovative Web3 components, ensuring project milestones were met and quality standards upheld.
• Cultivated a collaborative team environment, promoting innovative solutions and continuous improvement.
• Identified key areas for operational improvements, streamlining processes, and leveraging data-driven insights to support strategic decision-making.

Co-Founder and Vice President

tribeOS

Coordinated $60 Million in LOIs: Orchestrated the successful coordination of Letters of Intent (LOIs) totaling $60 million at a major web3 event, significantly enhancing the company's growth trajectory and market presence.
Led Cross-Functional Agile Teams: Led multiple cross-functional teams using Agile and Scrum methodologies to develop cutting-edge advertising tools. This initiative resulted in a 20% increase in user engagement and a revenue increase exceeding 10%.
Developed and Executed Project Plans: Crafted detailed plans incorporating stringent timelines and milestones, reducing project turnaround time by 20%. Achieved a 95% on-time delivery rate, ensuring consistent project success and client satisfaction.
Enhanced Stakeholder Communication: Established robust communication channels with stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment throughout project lifecycles. Conducted regular updates and progress reports to maintain stakeholder engagement and trust.
Optimized Resource Allocation: Strategically managed resources to optimize project outcomes, ensuring efficient use of budget and personnel while maintaining high quality and performance standards.

Project Manager, PMO

Investor Relations Support

General Motors

Optimized Multi-Million Dollar Contracts: Successfully optimized contracts with SAS and ETL tools, resulting in a 20% reduction in purchasing costs. Utilized advanced strategic sourcing techniques and negotiation skills to secure highly favorable terms and conditions.
Executed 60+ Cross-Functional Projects: Spearheaded the execution of over 60 cross-functional projects, consistently meeting designated timelines and delivering profitable outcomes. Implemented effective project management methodologies to ensure seamless coordination and successful delivery.
Revitalized Ongoing Contracts: Revitalized existing contracts, achieving a 10%-15% reduction in supplier costs through targeted renegotiation and strategic supplier management. Enhanced supplier diversity, expanding the company’s vendor base and improving procurement processes.
Strategic Supplier Relationship Management: Fostered strong relationships with key suppliers, ensuring long-term collaboration and favorable contract terms. Regularly reviewed supplier performance to identify opportunities for further cost savings and process improvements.
Implemented Cost Optimization Strategies: Developed and implemented cost optimization strategies that resulted in significant savings and enhanced the overall efficiency of the purchasing process. Monitored market trends to make informed purchasing decisions.

Purchasing Project Manager

Achieved 95% User Adoption Rate: Delivered SAP training to 300-1000 users per plant, achieving a 95% adoption rate through tailored and comprehensive training programs.
Enhanced System Performance by 15%: Led SAP landscape management and upgrades, increasing system performance by 15% and decreasing downtime by 20% through strategic optimizations.
Boosted Process Efficiency by 30%: Developed GM SAP procedure documents that boosted process efficiency by 30% and reduced process errors by 50%.
Led Cross-Functional Training Sessions: Organized and conducted cross-functional training sessions and workshops, ensuring thorough understanding and effective use of SAP tools across departments.
Customized Training Materials: Created and tailored training materials, including detailed manuals and guides, to meet the organization's specific needs and enhance user engagement and retention.
Monitored and Evaluated Training Effectiveness: Implemented continuous assessment and feedback mechanisms to refine training programs, ensuring high user competence and satisfaction sustained.

Project Manager: SAP Training & Facilitator

Unicorn Exchange Co

Operations and Content Manager

Ally Financial Inc.

Information Security Analyst

Utilizing data-driven strategies, I specialize in empowering entrepreneurs and solopreneurs to build wealth and achieve financial freedom.

Brian Robertson, MBA

Aspire Partners USA

Excited to bring multiple expense reduction services to businesses in the U.S. and Canada. There is NO FEE for the assessment, from which we will present you with several options without switching your current providers. *If* you do decide to proceed with any of our options, we charge only a percentage of your savings.... resulting in savings for YOU.

AP rebates and automation — Virtual Cards — Healthcare Savings — Innovative Shipping Platform & Savings — Specialized Tax Incentives — and more!

Account Executive

Packed with Purpose

Packed with Purpose is a specialty gifting company with a social mission. We are committed to creating meaningful impact through high-quality gifts. We handpick a variety of products for our gift boxes from Purposeful Purveyors who transform individual lives and communities around us.

I enable businesses to align their gift-giving with their corporate social impact mission by helping them select gifts that give back while also increasing sales, enhancing customer relationships, celebrating employee milestones, spreading holiday cheer, connecting employees as they work remotely, or "wowing" event attendees.

As Account Executive, I'm forging relationships with new Business Leaders while maintaining, as Account Manager, relationships with existing clients. For the good of our company, I've also stepped up to take on additional roles such as implementing Customer Service tools (chat bot and Service Hub) to streamline our customers' experience.

Account Executive and Account Manager

HackerOne

Connecting security teams with the world's largest community of white-hat hackers to find critical vulnerabilities before the bad guys do. Utilizing our platform with over 600,000 security researchers provides a scalable continuous security testing solution to keep up with the demand from an agile development cycle.  

From implementing the basics of a vulnerability disclosure process to supercharging existing security programs via a bug bounty program or crowd-sourced penetration testing, HackerOne is flexible enough to provide customized solutions for the largest, most complex governments/enterprises, as well as the most nimble startups.

Enterprise Crowdsourced Security Consultant

gogokid

Gogokid provides an innovative global learning experience for young students in China. After teaching and tutoring a variety of ages and subjects for decades, I love how the flexibility of Gogokid enables me to blend my love of cultural fluency with my passion for education by scheduling classes whenever I have the extra time. 
• Teach ESL-English one-on-one to Chinese students (ages 4-12) through a virtual classroom infused with cutting-edge AI technology.
• Empower students by implementing TPR, exemplification, and extension during lessons, customizing my technique to address their individual learning styles, improve their personal weaknesses, and increase their participation.
• Encourage continued development via homework and projects, as well as providing an evaluation to parents after each lesson.

Teacher

City Blockchain Summit

City Blockchain Summit hosts events, each one designed for blockchain professionals and investors to efficiently accomplish their informational and networking needs during 2 full days of concentrated, open, and insightful discussions.
• Established and implemented overall marketing strategy
• Supported the planning and execution of monthly summits 
• Maximized potential for investors and managers by initiating and following through on systematically comprehensive marketing campaigns in an accommodating manner that expands the possibilities of their business

Strategy and Communications Executive

Veracity Project

Co-founded start-up with members of RY Veritas to inspire and deliver positive change in each community we lived during our year abroad. We developed a platform, strategy, and templates that enabled consistent and efficient execution of positive social impact. 
•Designed and implemented overall strategy.
•Organized and executed volunteer opportunities each month.
•Created financial strategy and ensured adherence.

Co-founder, Head of Strategy, Head of Finance

Remote Year

Remote Year provides work and travel programs that bring together communities of passionate professionals, freelancers, and entrepreneurs to travel the world while working remotely. 
• Travelled to 15 countries in 1 year to learn about and embrace various cultures around the world. 
• Participated in professional workshops and networking events in each city alongside personal development opportunities.
• Led and participated in volunteering opportunities in each place I lived for more than 4 weeks, including: Argentina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Serbia, and Spain.

Participant on RY's 12th program, Veritas

MetLife

Led a team of 15 employees, providing training, performance feedback, career coaching, and daily support. Designed and tested future state processes and tools for MetLife and AXA teams’ integration to 1 MAXIS. Monitored metrics and prepared executive summaries for presentation to senior management. Coordinated with Auditing teams and Legal Affairs on business improvements. Met with Multinational Clients per clients’ requests.
•	Improved accuracy and timeliness of team’s delivery of international client reports on both quarterly and annual basis by implementing new collection, validation, and analyzing processes and tools.
•	Ensured proper cash flow and reserves by restructuring reinsurance documentation process and implementing more frequent updates / validations of policies to be reinsured for each country and client; performed in partnership with local insurers, sales, underwriting, and reinsurance.

Director of Operations

Performed in a global matrix organization, influencing and negotiating with regional and local leaders. Owned budget for Multinational Business ($3M) and MAXIS Global Benefits Network ($1.2M). Implemented governance and metrics for MN and MAXIS GBN. Collaborated with legal, finance, marketing, sales, operations, GEB Strategy, reinsurance, and IT before making recommendations for executive management’s review.
•	Provided a forum for face-to-face communication between clients and insurers, enabling better customer service and client understanding of local regulations by planning / executing international conferences attended by 100+ insurance providers, clients, and consultants that educated local insurance providers on best practices and global trends.
•	Created MN SharePoint site and communication plan to connect and inform all business partners. Assessed training needs of GEB associates and partners, developed materials and stored on newly created SharePoint site for easy access.

Head of Multinational Business Planning and Strategy

Learned the Americas business by obtaining, through a 3-year rotational program for high potentials, an in-depth view as to how each area contributes to the enterprise and honing leadership skills through formal executive training. Completed 4 one-year functional assignments within Retail Annuity Products (RAP) Group, by obtaining special permission to complete 2 simultaneously.
•	Identified opportunities within RAP for increased efficiency such as breaking down silos by coordinating better collaboration and communication among several RAP teams and developing tools / processes that optimized performance.
•	Preserved relationships with our customers, firms, and brokers despite their negative reactions to our monthly product changes by creating training presentations for the sales team as well as various pieces of external communication.
•	Met customers’ needs as we cut back on the sale of variable annuities by contributing to the development of MetLife Shield Level Selector, a hybrid-structured note and index annuity.
•	Increased customer satisfaction, customer-advisor communication, and the advisors’ understanding of customer behavior and trends by implementing Web Analytics for the new customer website launched by the Annuity Marketing team.

Leadership Development Program Associate

Reviewed pension plan provisions for potential closeout opportunities to identify guaranteed benefits. Developed offer letters, contracts, certificates, certificate procedures, and amendments for clients. Handled special projects that came through our unit.
•	Improved department organization, performed training, and implemented procedures, such as a peer review process, to increase efficiency.
•	Ensured accuracy and compliance by collaborating with pricing, legal, sales, filing, and administration teams.

Senior Analyst

Saint Thomas Aquinas College

Taught ‘Introduction to Statistics’ 3 hours per week plus provided extra guidance during office hours and as needed. Created course syllabus, lesson plans, quizzes, and exams then assessed each student’s performance.

Adjunct Faculty

Boston Medical Center

Defined newly created position and composed an instruction manual. Maintained and updated databases as well as provided analytical and data support to Grants’ personnel.
•	Increased departmental efficiency by upgrading multiple secure databases from Access ’97 to Access 2003 and automating many processes with new Queries and Reports.
•	Reduced hand-offs and proposal preparation and maintenance time by implementing a new web-based electronic management system and training staff.
•	Optimized system performance in collaboration with users and (occasionally) external programmers.

Senior Business Analyst

I am all about problem solving and helping people — basically, a professional “fixer” that will happily tackle any challenge from process optimization or business transformation to implementing governance or completely revamping strategic initiatives.

My love for problem-solving inspired my Mathematics & Computer Science majors, during which my competitive nature drove me to challenge classmates to arrive at not just *a* solution, but the most efficient solution. After 10 years in Financial Services, I spent a year living abroad, learning different cultures and embracing new perspectives. During that time, I co-founded a non-profit to affect & inspire positive change in each city I lived in. Working with refugees, disabled women, and young children emboldened my commitment to raise awareness of, funds for, and the morale of these vulnerable and marginalized communities. I returned to NY and am still delivering effective resolutions  — counseling ~15 people per week via Crisis Text Line, raising $10,000 per year for local charities via Women Dine for a Cause, spending ~10 hours per month mentoring my "Little Sister" with BBBS, and bringing governance and enhanced processes to the Women's Education Project's Board, Council, and Committees so we can continue to help women living on less than $2/day find meaningful careers of their own choosing. More recently, I've incorporated my passion for social impact into my career by encouraging both businesses and individuals to transform lives, enrich communities, and preserve the environment through the everyday act of gift-giving. 

As I continue to learn, grow, and seek better, more efficient, more productive, and more profitable ways of doing things, I am committed to applying my skills in ways that align with my values and passion for constant improvement — for the world and my community, as well as for myself and others (via mentoring, coaching, continuous personal and professional development, education, etc.). 

If you share any of my passions, please reach out to connect!


Areas of expertise include:
Problem Solving | Customer Support | Process Optimization | Strategy & Communications | Financial & Business Acumen | Budgeting / P&L Management | Data Analysis | Business Transformation | Project Management | Change Management | Cultural Fluency | Training | Negotiations | Living Life to the Fullest 

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