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Holly A. Vergara

Los Gatos,CA.

Summary

Highly accomplished program management professional with 10+ years of experience in program/project planning, execution, and evaluation within the storage industry. Equipped with success in developing and implementing innovative programs that support the strategic direction of the organization. An effective leader with proven ability to supervise and lead high-performance teams to ensure a 100% success rate in achieving company goals in an extremely competitive business environment.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Material Readiness Manager, NPI Procurement

Western Digital
08.2021 - 05.2023
  • Ensure all materials are in place and ready for NPI programs (Material CTB)
  • Evaluate supplier quotes based on purchasing procedures and competitiveness for quality, price and delivery.
  • Collaborate closely with Global Commodity Managers to ensure best price and MOQs were implemented
  • Developed and maintained relationships with key suppliers for smooth communication to meet required expectations.
  • Work with external organizations within the company to find new and better components to fulfill diverse needs.
  • Develop productive relationships with key account holders.
  • Accept and process supply requests from staff, and placed orders per procedures.
  • Maintain sourcing resiliency through program lifecycle

Program Manager

Sun Microsystems, Inc./Oracle America, Inc
01.2005 - 05.2019
  • Responsible for ensuring Oracle IP and third party software products release in a successful and timely manner through Oracle’s Product Life Cycle Process by organizing and guiding program teams to define, construct, and deliver tasks and deliverables.
  • Responsible for implementing phase exit deliverables as well as presenting to Business Unit VP's for phase exit approval.
  • Provide regular reports demonstrating execution to scheduled activities and provide objective data to predict future problems.
  • Assist any program team functional area in solving problems that are hindering program progress.
  • Hold regular team meetings assessing functional group progress.
  • Drive creation and verification of development project roadmaps.
  • Constantly strive to improve self and team's productivity.
  • Created new Consolidation Team that combined two organizations together.
  • Newly created team now accommodates Storage and Server OS product integration processes and procedures.
  • Duties Include: Created new Tiger team to orchestrate action items needed to create schedules and project plan for newly created consolidation team.
  • Hosted weekly meetings to track action items and act as liaison between groups to organize tasks.
  • Created schedules that allowed team to follow organization and release deadlines.
  • Day to day activities included working with all project development teams to assist in getting their projects ready for integration.
  • Specifically, reviewing their checklists to make sure all project requirements are met (test, compliance, documentation, etc.), held weekly meetings to discuss status of core product gate and track bugs, implement and adhere to project deadline schedules to make sure projects are on track for scheduled delivery dates.
  • In addition, hosted meetings with Executives of Business Teams to address any changes or concerns.
  • Identified costs involved for projects and tracked specific tasks to keep in line with departmental budget.

Product Manager, Team Lead

Sun Microsystems, Inc
03.2002 - 01.2005
  • Responsible for driving product direction, managing product strategy, assisting with bringing new products to market, interacting with product team to provide marketing deliverables, working closely with engineering for product requirements, informing field sales force of new products and features, creating business cases for upcoming products, presenting phase exit reviews for product programs, and updating internal and external web sites for up to date product material.
  • In addition, established close relationships with partners to ensure seamless product releases.

Education

Some College (No Degree) - Business

DeAnza College
Cupertino, CA

Court Reporting

Evergreen Valley College
San Jose, CA
1989

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Silver Creek High School
1987

Skills

  • Material Readiness
  • Program Management
  • Software Development Life Cycle
  • Excellent Communication, Organizing
  • Team leadership and direction
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Budget Coordination
  • Policy and procedure improvements
  • Program Leadership
  • Documentation Proficiency
  • Process improvement
  • Cross functional Team Builder

Timeline

Material Readiness Manager, NPI Procurement

Western Digital
08.2021 - 05.2023

Program Manager

Sun Microsystems, Inc./Oracle America, Inc
01.2005 - 05.2019

Product Manager, Team Lead

Sun Microsystems, Inc
03.2002 - 01.2005

Some College (No Degree) - Business

DeAnza College

Court Reporting

Evergreen Valley College

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Silver Creek High School

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