ALMA KAMPS
Sheboygan,WI
Summary
With a strong background in leadership, public relations, and organization, I am poised to make a significant contribution to your department's growth and profit. Drawing on experience and proven abilities, I am confident in my capacity to drive positive results. By leveraging skills and expertise, aiming to enhance the success of the team and help achieve organizational goals.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager II
Bentley Global Resource(Kraft Heinz Co. Contract)
08.2023 - Current
- Lead commercialization efforts for projects across the BU, platform innovation programs or significant capital related initiatives
- Ensure effective team engagement which may include establishing and managing team meetings
- Review project timelines and cost regularly with the project team, facilitate creation of mitigation/contingency plans and lead communication
- Run cross-functional teams in the development and implementation of a broad, coordinated set of projects to meet the revenue, volume, growth, efficiency and quality goals and priorities
- Support and/or participate in various category collaborator governance forums (i.e
- Stage gate/Leadership teams), advise on project status and conformance to business governance rules
- Manage Business and Manufacturing Systems initiatives as the need arises and support the continuous improvement of the commercialization process through collaboration with key partners
- Facilitate the definition of project scopes, goals, tasks, and resource (people and cost) requirements; resolve or assist in the resolution of unique challenges within and between projects or functional groups; develop methods to supervise and report project progress and provide corrective action as needed
- Initiate the finished good Master data setup and communicate completed information to all collaborators so all information systems can be accurately set up to produce, ship, sell and invoice our products
Sr. Project Manager
Vollrath Company
09.2022 - 07.2023
- Managed re-integration of the entire ERP system
- Develop and manage project governance, including Steering Committee meetings, Project Leadership meetings, and project team meetings
- Manage day to day implementation of project aspects, defining project tasks and resource allocation
- Lead project teams, drive accountability and deliver project success
- Schedule and manage project deliverable and milestones for ERP reimplementation
- Monitoring potential implementation project risks, opportunities and issues
- Scheduled and managed Blueprinting sessions to capture project requirements
- Development and maintenance of the project plan
- Work with partners to best manage projects and ensure effective communication
- Plan coordinate and hold meetings with project team members both internal and external
Strategic Project Manager
Grande Cheese Company
05.2022 - 09.2022
- Determine project goals and priorities with Program Manager, Project Sponsor, and/or Project Stakeholders
- Support requirements of the enterprise program manager to provide necessary information and support for successful program delivery
- Negotiate the performance of activities with team members and their functional managers
- Co-create a project charter with the team and key stakeholders, including the definition of project success criteria
- Obtain project charter approval from the sponsor and stakeholders in order to formalize authority, gain commitment, and define project acceptance
- Manage and communicate a clear vision of the project's objectives, and motivate the project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by team members
- With project team members, prepare project plan and obtain Project Sponsor and/or Project Stakeholders approval
- Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path within individual projects and across multiple projects
- Escalate issues to management when necessary and advocate for responsible solutions to project problems
- Manage the financial aspects of the project: budgeting, estimate to actual variance, capital project management, etc
Project Manager (Consumer Product/Food Service and Ingredients)
Sargento Foods, Inc.
02.2018 - 04.2022
- Regularly lead project team meetings to establish deliverables, validate and confirm acceptance, track team member progress, and project status, convey a sense of urgency to meet aggressive timelines, hold team members accountable and provide recognition
- Provide direction and support to project teams
- Gather and relay requirements to ensure the proper development and day-to-day operational activities are taking place to meet overall project objectives and timelines to commercialize
- Identify, mitigate, prioritize, manage, and help drive the resolution of project and team issues, conflicts, constraints, dependencies, and risks in a time sensitive manner
- Implement and manage changes to project scope, deliverables, timelines, and resources to ensure project success
- Act as the Sales, Marketing, and Innovation liaison between Operations
- In partnership with the Sales, Marketing, or Innovation project leader, clarify overall project scope and timeline, and identify objectives and needed resources
- Provide transparency to stakeholders with continuous communication through meeting minutes, project updates, status reports, presentations, and participation in leadership meetings as requested
- Escalate risks to management promptly and provide recommendations to resolve
- Identify opportunities for continuous project management and execution improvements
- Champion and implement changes to increase the effectiveness of the organization
New Product Development Project Leader
Kohler Company
09.2015 - 02.2018
- Lead product development teams to launch innovative new products and improve the quality, performance, or cost of existing products
- Manage cross-functional teams through the advanced development and product development processes through market launch
- Maintain capital, expense, and development budgets
- Develop and monitor project schedules and adhere to the new product development process
- Manage tasks within each phase of a project
- Participate in performance expectations and evaluations for cross-functional teams
- Communicate to senior management on project status, and process
- Define the decision-making process for development teams
- Establish and maintain relationships with senior management to align NPD objectives and remove obstacles for project completion
Master Scheduler I
Kohler Company
12.2012 - 09.2015
- Oversees the master production schedules to support customer service and inventory turn goals
- Schedule jobs per cell and plant constraints
- Control safety stock level to ensure service levels are maintained
- Controls Inventory levels and accuracy to service customer orders with the least amount of inventory and the quickest release to manufacturing
- Resolve negative inventory problems
- Oversees cycle counts, as well as any physical inventory counts
- Ensures the proper delivery of materials and services for production according to customer and production commitments
- Cut purchases orders for sourcing and accessories
- Monitors material shortage issues and prepares corrective action
- Interacts with plant management and plant materials leadership to maintain the accuracy of schedule dates and communicates any production delays
- Maintain metrics
- Perform other duties assigned by management
Education
Master of Business Administration - International Business
Park University
Parkville, MOBachelor of Science Degree - Management, Computer Information Systems
Park University
Parkville, MOPMP: Project Management Professional Certification -
Project Management Institute
Skills
- Certified Project Management Professional
- Fluent in English and Spanish
- Prosci Change Practitioner Certified
- Waterfall Methodology Experience
- Proven Program Management Skills
- Experience With SAP Systems
- Proficient Communication Skills
- Analytical Thinker
- Collaborative Team Member
- Detail-Oriented Approach
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite
- Experience in Microsoft Project
- ServiceNow Platform Expertise
- Experience with Oracle Agile PLM
- Project Development
- Effective Communication with Stakeholders
- Risk management
- Cross-Departmental Engagement
Timeline
Project Manager II
Bentley Global Resource(Kraft Heinz Co. Contract)
08.2023 - Current
Sr. Project Manager
Vollrath Company
09.2022 - 07.2023
Strategic Project Manager
Grande Cheese Company
05.2022 - 09.2022
Project Manager (Consumer Product/Food Service and Ingredients)
Sargento Foods, Inc.
02.2018 - 04.2022
New Product Development Project Leader
Kohler Company
09.2015 - 02.2018
Master Scheduler I
Kohler Company
12.2012 - 09.2015
PMP: Project Management Professional Certification -
Project Management Institute
Master of Business Administration - International Business
Park University
Bachelor of Science Degree - Management, Computer Information Systems
Park University
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