Gerald Thompson Jr
Lucas,TX
Summary
Dedicated and detail-oriented Marketing Budget Analyst with a proven track record of effectively managing budgets, implementing strategic financial solutions, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Seeking to contribute analytical expertise and innovative problem-solving skills in a dynamic role to support Marketing and Sales budgeting initiatives.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager II
Smile Doctors
12.2021 - 02.2023
- Coordinated cross-functional business stakeholders and vendors to define project scope, requirements, and resources, ensuring efficient project execution
- Leveraged SharePoint's robust features to establish centralized repositories, facilitating efficient access to critical resources, reducing duplication of effort, and fostering real-time collaboration, resulting in improved team productivity, accelerated decision-making, and elevated overall operational efficiency
- Led dedicated team in collaboration with third-party vendor to strategize, design, diagram workflows, set up User Acceptance Testing (UAT), execute, and sustained enhanced iteration of billing software through SDLC Agile framework
- Tracked work assignments across teams from multiple business units, including internal and external business partners, to ensure accountability for task completion
- Implemented centralized repositories using SharePoint, enhancing team productivity and decision-making efficiency by 30%.
Project Manager
Virtual Tech Gurus
12.2019 - 02.2022
- As project manager, Successfully led team of nine engineers in delivering 1800+ critical bank server migrations from SVC to EMC within 12–18-month period.
- Ensured project compliance with financial governance standards and industry regulations, mitigating financial risks associated with non-compliance.
- Maintained open and transparent communication with project stakeholders, including regular budget and risk status updates. Ensured alignment between project financials and stakeholder expectations.
- Through my guidance and vigilant oversight, ensured successful implementation of databases and systems, resulting in 40% decrease in implementation timelines and improved user adoption rates by 50%.
- Identified challenges, scheduling conflicts, and opportunities with customers as well as collaborated with nine other partner project managers simultaneously to deliver successful migrations.
Business Analyst
Citi (World Wide Tech)
04.2018 - 04.2019
- Successfully collaborated with Marketing and Finance teams to develop, maintain, and forecast Marketing budgets, resulting in 27.4% reduction in overspending.
- Monitored spending against planned budgets, providing periodic reports that contributed to 20% increase in budget accuracy.
- Served as key point of contact for Marketing and Sales budget, leading to 30% improvement in team resource utilization and mentoring/coaching peers.
- Interacted closely with and guided executive leadership, providing strategic consultation that led to 28% enhancement in budget alignment with organizational goals.
- Regularly communicated with executive-level audience, anticipating stakeholder needs and ensuring effective communication across diverse teams.
- Collaborated with Marketing Campaign Teams, Sales, Finance, Marketing Strategy Team, and third-party vendors, resulting in 40% improvement in cross-functional collaboration.
- Created visually engaging dashboards and reports using Tableau, leading to 20% improvement in data visualization effectiveness.
- Identified areas for process optimization within Marketing & Sales Planning and Budgeting, proposing practical solutions that enhanced efficiency by 15%.
- Demonstrated continuous improvement through learning agility and innovation, staying current on relevant industry updates and budget best practices.
Operations Manager
Baylor Univ. Medical Center
06.2014 - 10.2017
- Managed end-to-end operations, budgets, and development of revenue plan, including cost controls regarding labor, supply, and inventory while maintaining 100% compliance and reducing labor costs by $100K.
- Led recruitment, training, and performance evaluation of front-line staff, including supervisors and team leads, resulting in attaining reduction in error by 15% with overall metric increase of hospital consumer assessment of healthcare providers’ scores.
- Increased patient satisfaction and maintained relationships through patient rounding, corrections, and reporting.
- Drove operational efficiency for three healthcare buildings and eliminated bottlenecks while ensuring zero incidents and maintaining 100% safety rating.
- Executed cleaning procedures for emergency department and performed Medicaid/Medicare inspection for first time that enabled department to receive recognition, award, and 2nd highest Aramark reward.
- Successfully completed all tasks while temporarily serving as Director for Baylor Heart and Vascular team.
Education
MBA - Concentration in Cyber Security
Baylor University
Waco, TX12.2023
BBA - Management Information Systems
Baylor University
Waco, TX05.2014
Skills
- Cost Control
- Contract Management
- Procedure Development
- Inventory Control
- Leadership
- Project Management
- Training and Readiness
- Team Building
- Personnel Development
- Risk Management
- Personnel Support
- Strategic Planning
- Organizational Leadership
Certification
- Scrum Master
- PMP - Project Management Professional (Dec 23)
- AWS - Cloud Practitioner
- Coursea- Project Manager Certificate
- CompTIA- A+, Security+, Linux +
Timeline
Project Manager II
Smile Doctors
12.2021 - 02.2023
Project Manager
Virtual Tech Gurus
12.2019 - 02.2022
Business Analyst
Citi (World Wide Tech)
04.2018 - 04.2019
Operations Manager
Baylor Univ. Medical Center
06.2014 - 10.2017
MBA - Concentration in Cyber Security
Baylor University
BBA - Management Information Systems
Baylor University
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