Kelly Fried

• Manage the dean’s calendar with the highest level of accuracy scheduling meetings, appointments, travel and engagements, determining the priority of matters for attention, and delegating items to associate deans and others as needed.
• Serve as liaison between the dean and university leadership, faculty, staff, and other internal and external audiences.
• Draft schedules, agendas, presentations, briefings, and remarks for events and meetings with internal and external audiences.
• Review, and when necessary, revise briefing documents, agendas, scripts, and other materials that are provided to the dean.
• Manage special projects for the dean connected with donors, academic projects or other areas, as well as monitor and coordinate activities to meet milestones and ensure good communication among stakeholders to drive project success.

Coordinated medical practice start-up from concept to mature practice, as well as transition from private practice to a managed care organization.

• Established business practices, managed revenues and expenses, handled personnel changes, coordinated payroll and benefits services, handled all the credentialing, coding, claim creation, and posting of payments.
• Developed integral process of tracking patients to ensure high level of patient standard of care.
• Maintained a practice model of overhead to income at approximately 35-38%, less than the industry standard.
• Coordinated the move from system of paper charting to electronic health record.

Aided executive management team in the long-term planning of the company by providing decision-making data and recommendations.

• Completed competitive analysis of market leader to develop strategic plan to deliver $250 MM in net sales (25% CAGR) in 3 years for a major division.

Supported a supply chain initiative aimed at increasing accountability and proactivity in decision-making by improving the measurability of key metrics and using cross-functional teams.

• Streamlined reporting structure, determining gaps in reporting, identifying inconsistencies in metric definitions, and improving flow of report data.
• Developed report templates containing past and forward-looking metrics used by Sales and Operations management teams promoting proactive decision-making.
• Advocated for changes in reporting procedures and trained data owners on new report templates.
• Showcased key metrics on intranet site providing visibility of company performance.

Served on PD team working on new developments, cost reductions, and competitive product and ingredient statement matches.

• Managed multiple projects from initial development through pilot plant testing, scaleup, and commercialization.
• Aided Sales, Marketing, and Clients with product recommendations, demonstrations of products, and technical support.
• Commercialized 11 products in 6 months maintaining $2.5MM and developing $139K in new sales earning the Nestle Spirit Award.

Synchronized purchase of raw materials, schedule of daily production, and logistics of raw materials and finished product in a make-to-order food manufacturing facility.

• Developed relationships that facilitated cooperation among production, quality and customer service departments resulting in fewer quality-related issues and more on- time deliveries of finished goods.
• Supervised production crew and trained quality laboratory technicians.
• Authored Standard Operating Procedures utilized throughout the plant.
• Coordinated conversion of 81K pounds of rework into finished product, saving $33K in 12 months.
• Initiated program of tracking pallets in the facility saving $40K in 12 months.