NCSA College Recruiting

Pivotal member of a team of former athletes and coaches, problem-solvers, creative thinkers, and doers. We are all eager to make our mark in the sports recruiting industry. I have the privilege of designing digital products and experiences that make an impact on athletes from around the world.
-Mentor Supported inside sales
-Achieved foundational, strategic, goal-based metrics

Recruiting Coordinator

iTutor.com Inc.

▶️ Perform as team member of educational advisory group focused on improving academics through new innovative learning tools.

▶️ Create and sustain a level of discipline for each individual with an emphasis on teaching respect, loyalty and sportsmanship.

▶️ Teaches, evaluates and tracks performance/ progress of every student and provides continuous guidance until individual benchmarks are met.

▶️ Incorporated various teaching methods to effectively deliver an academic based Fitness for Life curriculum.

▶️ Created a positive, fun, and structured culture within the physical education classes.

Physical Education Teacher

▶️Develop all aspects of sales associated with products, merchandise products to bring to market, and analyze results for future strategy.

▶️Conducted post-campaign analysis based on response results and presented strategic recommendations for future campaign improvements in each quarterly strategy meeting to help decide which marketing campaigns to execute moving forward.

▶️Spearheaded advertising campaigns for clients and assisted in the organization of media events.

▶️Dramatically increase engagement on social media for both brands through innovative use of content.

Digital Copy Writer

North Italia

▶️ Effectively managed the restaurant within the policies and company guidelines while ensuring guest satisfaction at all times.

▶️ Maintained efficient operations, inventory, appropriate cost controls, and profit management in the restaurant.

▶️ Maximize volume and revenue in assigned food service distributors/operators by utilizing fact-based, strategic selling methods.

▶️ Analyze business trends and utilize insights to identify, develop and expand business growth opportunities.

▶️ Partner with the Operations team to provide overall distributor satisfaction of orders and deliveries.

▶️Achieve annual sales and profit plan by identifying opportunities, strategies and tactics, and by influencing key stakeholders within their distributor.

Trainer/Server

Texas Rangers Ballpark

▶️ Consistently completed opening side duties which include, but are not limited to: checking quality and amount of all bar stock and supplies through checklist; setting up bottles in display cabinet and speed rail; checking condition and cleanliness of blender, shaker and other tools; checking temperature of refrigeration units and glass wash machine.

▶️ Attended and participated in professional group meetings; maintains awareness of new trends and innovations in the field of customer service.

▶️ Build and maintain strategic partnerships with key distributor customers and drive customer satisfaction through superior service and execution.

▶️ Participates in sales related activities concerning Professional Services Food project work including writing proposals and presenting technical information.

Bartender

Advantage Academy

▶️ Modeled, demonstrated, and co-taught lessons using various instructional and classroom management best practices.

▶️ Completed daily observations and provided immediate feedback to all teachers which improved instruction and student achievement in Preschool and Pre-Kindergarten.

▶️ Implemented and supported curriculum thru the use of Technology to students K - 8.

▶️  Evaluated and communicated student progressions with other professionals to determine individual student needs.

Teacher

Business-oriented and Customer-centric Professional with a core background in the Education
and Hospitality industries with a focus on creating increasing satisfaction for the customer experience. 

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My expertise involves performing tasks in a high-pressure team environment and making sound decisions in crises has led to a better understanding of how to work effectively with a multidisciplinary team and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

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I have extensive experience and am well-equipped with a creative mix of full-cycle sales processes, business, and account management strategies necessary to meet aggressive business objectives and align with the organization's mission.
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I adhere to established policies and procedures in the sale and post-sale processing while ensuring key clients are secured and satisfied.


Skillset includes:
▶️ Sales 
▶️ Project Management 
▶️ Business Development
▶️ Account Management
▶️ Hospitality
▶️ Strategic Planning
▶️ Research
▶️ Storytelling
▶️ Stakeholder engagement
▶️ Restaurant Sales
▶️ Strategic Sales leader

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗜 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧 & 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗘
"Whatever feels good for your soul, do that, and do it at least 1x a day". What's yours? Here's mine:
📚 reading (self-help & mindset are my cups of tea) 
🍴 dining (nothing like a creative culinary meal)
🍪 eating chocolate chip cookies (self-explanatory, tbh) 
🏈 sports, period; I'm an addict, and I know it.

𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗖𝗧
If you made it this far, please smash that connect button! I'd love to return the love & help you in any way that I can 😊

I'm here to learn, connect and grow. Let's connect and do it together 🌱


If you have any questions or contact me, please send me a message or give me a call at 954-534-3190

Vic Dean

Okta

Leading the Developer Velocity project (#1 engineering initiative) to break down our monolith to improve speed for all developers. I also formed and now lead an architecture committee comprised of chief and principal architects, allowing us to promote long term technical excellence and decision making for the organization.

Engineering Principal Technical Program Manager

Edgio

Completed the merger of Yahoo + Limelight to form Edgio which now serves nearly 20% of the world's internet traffic.

Manager, Technical Program Management, CTO Org

Yahoo

Managed, mentored, and led a team of 10 Technical Project Managers. Orchestrated company wide planning events for 22 teams and 142+ engineering/product people across multiple locations and time zones.

Manager, Strategic Programs, Technical Program Management

Built out the global platform at scale and reduced business exposure to disaster scenarios within Yahoo Edgecast. I additionally built and led the innovation labs arm within the company from the ground up, producing unique forward looking projects that have earned patents.

Senior Technical Program Manager, Strategic Programs

Verizon Media

TechOps agile focused role where I led a team of 4 Technical Project Managers within the PMO. My team and I successfully completed agile transformations in operations.

Manager, Technical Project Management Office

Managed the strategic partner and infrastructure program around the world, building infrastructure at the edge of the internet in new and emerging markets.

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Planed and built datacenter infrastructure at the edge of the internet in major cities and markets across the globe to increase performance for end users “eyeballs” of the internet—from streaming video, images, applications, credit card transactions, and more.

Technical Project Manager

Southern California Edison (SCE)

A mix of engineering and project management: I was responsible for executing high voltage multi-million dollar substation projects that provide power for northern LA, eastern LA, and southern Orange counties. Worked with teams of 15-50 stakeholders regularly to complete engineering on 90+ substation projects to date. Work impacted millions of customers within the region. Fun fact: I had a big part in the effort to restore nationwide grid stability after San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was shut down.

Project Engineer

I write about program management in an effort to challenge what we know about it. My goal is for you to make a bigger impact as a program and project leader. I write a newsletter that breaks down program tactics that you can use (link in bio).

Note: My direct message response time is slow on LinkedIn. Please email me for a faster response.

My work experience (the regular LinkedIn stuff):
12 years of leading infrastructure and software projects at scale. 3 years leading direct reports with the last team being 10 people. I lead organizational process creation, strategic programs, and implementation of right-sized agile frameworks appropriate for the organization's use case (agile as a tool, not a dogma).

Matt McDannel

The 2025 TPM Basecamp conference is on Nov 14!

What's TPM Basecamp? 
It's the globally distributed version of TPM Summit, the largest TPM conference out there. Really cool idea and I'm excited to see it play out.

I'll be attending New York-- see you there.

🎤 Here’s a first look at some of our speakers:

🇺🇸 Bay Area: Jenny Truong, Director of TPM at Meta

🇨🇦 Vancouver: Reji Varghese, Senior TPM at Autodesk – The Technical Challenges Every TPM Must Master

🇺🇸 New York: Tal Lazar, award-winning cinematographer, producer, and educator – Lessons in Authority from the Film Set “You don’t need all the answers to lead. Authority begins when others see themselves in your vision.”

🇺🇸 Seattle: Toby Roberts, SVP of Engineering at Zillow Group - Fireside Chat on creating and launching the TPM role at Zillow Group. 

🇮🇳 India: A full-day, in-person experience packed with learning, leadership, and community.
 🔹 Working sessions with Li, Gaurav Sen, and Naveen Mansur
 🔹 Panel featuring:
 • Deeptha Mohan – Senior Director, Head of Central PMO & Customer Ops
 • Padmasini Renga Bashyam – Building Tuzo
 • Harshad - Product Manager at Google
 • Ananya - Product Manager at Google
This is more than just a series of events, it's a global movement to elevate the TPM craft, share knowledge, and build the next generation of tech leaders.

♻️ Please repost to reach the TPMs in your network. See you there.

Okta is hiring 4 TPMs and 1 Agile PM. 
(the first one is within my team)

1) Senior Engineering Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure & Security - SF, Bellevue, DC, or Toronto

2) Staff Agile Program Manager, Emerging Products - Bellevue, Washington

3) Staff Technical Program Manager - Chicago, Illinois

4) Staff Technical Program Manager - Bengaluru, India

5) Staff Technical Program Manager -B2B SAAS - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Apply using my referral link:
https://lnkd.in/gGR4_ABW 

Keep in mind I'm not the hiring manager and I can only share so much. Hope this is helpful and maybe I'll see you on the other side.

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