ARIS GEE
Muldrow,OK
Summary
Short term goals: As a detail-oriented professional, I am looking for a career that allows me to utilize my BSME, MSE, and UofA PMP Certification knowledge, analysis, and project management skills with industry knowledge to expand technical and soft skills in betterment of myself as a project manager and mechanical engineer, my team members, and company.
Long term goals: Future career growth in a cross-functional environment where I can benefit a company and team members while expanding upon my project management, engineering, and soft skills. Career goals include advancement in project management, continual job excellence, continually learning and sharing that technical knowledge and exposure to new technology, processes, products, and interfacing within industry.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Graduate Student
University of Arkansas
01.2023 - 07.2024
- Currently pursuing a Masters of Science in Engineering alongside Project Management Certification.
- Completed coursework in project management, advanced project management, engineering management, leadership principles, cost estimation models, decision models and advanced product design, advanced thermodynamics, indoor environmental control, industrial waste and energy management
HPE GreenLake Project Manager
CDW
07.2021 - 02.2023
- Created and managed CDW’s HPE GreenLake projects independently, taking ownership of the pipeline from inception to installation for guaranteed project success of all stakeholders
- Provided subject matter expertise on the HPE GreenLake sales process to support the CDW HPE GreenLake team and cross-functional colleagues.
- Connected cross-functional team members, clarified the sales process, advocated to leadership, and removed project roadblocks to ensure project progression
- Served as the liaison between stakeholders, advocating for their needs and fostering strong relationships to drive successful project outcomes.
- Took active role in facilitating communication and collaboration among customer, sales, distribution, and cross-functional teams
- Reported monthly growth in ongoing and suspended projects to CDW and HPE leadership on a bi-weekly basis.
- Engaged in collaborative discussions to identify solutions for project roadblocks and mitigate risks, while actively communicating about projected revenue and close dates.
- Conducted regular meetings with project sales teams to track and document ongoing progress, ensuring smooth execution
- Successfully achieved project quality standards by diligently following deliverables, timeframe, statement of work, and scope throughout the entire project lifecycle.
- Shared and communicated to the team our outcomes and lessons learned for best practices and project issue resolution during monthly, manager-led team meetings.
- Met with customers to discuss HPE GreenLake SOW requirements, redlines, and verbiage
- Coordinated efforts to create a Statement of Work (SOW) between the distributor and CDW, as well as a Customer SOW (CSOW) between CDW and the customer. Advanced and escalated to leadership when necessary to ensure prompt delivery of signed SOWs.
- Continually met and surpassed quarterly and yearly sales goals.
Quality Engineer
Lockheed Martin
03.2021 - 06.2021
- Monitored production activities to ensure conformance to established methods and procedures.
- Performed analysis to identify root causes of quality issues and developed corrective actions.
- Independently uncovered and resolved issues related to quality inspections and supporting assembly processes.
- Utilized SAP to create, route, and resolve Qnotes in accordance with quality standards of practice.
Federal Presales Solution Architect
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
06.2018 - 02.2021
- Collaborated with women in my new hire group to call upon the President of Presales for North America to champion a Women in Technical Sales Organization while we began this group, empowering professional women executives across the IT industry
- Managed and monitored each account's funnel through SalesForce tracking, keeping track of stakeholder, team, partner, and customer involvement in sales process including revenue, budget, and scope.
- Verified project scope and statement of work with customers during solution configuration, ensuring adherence to budget, timeline, and IT requirements
- Worked with team stakeholders to identify and mitigate possible project impacts: product availability, customer budget, customer timeframe, scope deliverables, meeting industry standards, location restrictions, available team to staff project, etc.
- Led workshops in-person and virtual knowledge exchanges to demonstrate advanced solution design methods for HPE products, advancement of industry knowledge.
- Established, monitored, and communicated tasks associated with schedule, scope, SOW, and budget with team and stakeholders for NASA's Hyper deliverables.
- Identified proper team members across the Federal organization when constructing a USPS RFI, RFP, and RFQ using time and project management and problem-solving skills. Researched team members for the best fit in knowledge and expertise to meet project objectives.
- Successfully implemented USDA year-end IT storage budget implementation, meeting all time, budget, and transition objectives through continuous collaboration with HPE delivery, shipping, and manufacturing teams.
- Created conceptual and functional, large-scale end-to-end server solutions with AT&T to meet IT service expectations for the USDA in each county across US locations.
- Tracked full sales cycle activity within Salesforce for each account and configuration.
Education
Project Management Certification -
University of Arkansas
07-2024
Master of Science - Engineering
University of Arkansas
07-2024
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
University of Arkansas
05.2018
Skills
- Communication
- Management
- Innovation
- Data analysis foresight
- Solution implementation
- Presenting
- Planning
- Leadership
- Motivation
- Commitment
- Problem solving
- Cultivate teamwork
- Detail-oriented
- Organization
- Punctuality
- Adapt to environment
- Conflict resolution
- Proficient Project Management methodology
- Lockheed Martin Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
- Proficient SalesForce usage
- Proficient Microsoft Office skills
- Proficient SAP understanding and applications
- Basic CADD/ Civil 3D applications
- Basic MATLAB programming
Professional Involvement
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Member
Project Management Institute (PMI) Member
American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM) Member
Hobbies and Interests
- Manufacturing and team environments involved in advanced technology testing and production
- Being challenged mentally and hands on to collaboratively find a solution to achieve a common goal
- Customer and team interfacing in creating, knowledge sharing, leading, and implementing solutions
- Project management and leadership in a cross-organizational setting
- Learning, testing, and producing new technologies to educate myself and others on advancements
- Building my technical knowledge of new technologies, products, discovery, and academia
- Utilizing analytical, problem solving techniques to interpret and plan for new and known information
References
- Laurie Harden, Hybrid Infrastructure Manager, CDW, laurmig@cdw.com, (847) 691-1902
- Lisa Parker, Federal Solution Architect, HPE, lisa.parker@hpe.com, (301) 717-9906
- Kari Yates, Executive Assistant, ArcBest Technologies, kyates@arcbtech.com, (479) 784-8455
- John Hamilton, PE, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and PE Consultant, University of Arkansas, jhhamil@uark.edu, (479) 788-3988
- Darin Nutter, PhD, PE, FASHRAE, Professor and Department Head of Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas, dnutter@uark.edu, (479) 575-4503
- Synthia Ford, Maintenance Manager, Bekaert, synthia.ford@bekaert.com, (479) 422-2133
Timeline
Graduate Student
University of Arkansas
01.2023 - 07.2024
HPE GreenLake Project Manager
CDW
07.2021 - 02.2023
Quality Engineer
Lockheed Martin
03.2021 - 06.2021
Federal Presales Solution Architect
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
06.2018 - 02.2021
Project Management Certification -
University of Arkansas
Master of Science - Engineering
University of Arkansas
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
University of Arkansas