Results-driven project manager with expertise in team collaboration and problem resolution. Known for delivering support and solutions promptly, fostering a culture of accountability and excellence. Skilled in engaging with all organizational levels, including senior management, to meet deadlines and surpass expectations while ensuring high-quality customer service.
Work History
Business Enablement Solutions Team
8 Years 6 Months
McGraw-Hill Higher Education | 02.2018 - Current
Working with the Learning Technology Representatives to request desk copies, online material to instructors.
Assisted in maintaining Salesforce database accuracy and organization.
Helping instructors with textbook selections.
Working with EAM managers.
Helped train employees with the new Salesforce interface.
Helped train employees with the new Salesforce interface.
Assisted instructors in selecting textbooks to support curriculum needs.
Working with EAM managers.
On a team to develop new processes, to be more efficient.
Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
Demonstrated respect, friendliness, and willingness to help wherever needed.
Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement.
Managed time efficiently in order to complete all tasks within deadlines.
Organized and detail-oriented with a strong work ethic.
Paid attention to detail while completing assignments.
Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions, and make decisions.
Strengthened communication skills through regular interactions with others.
Adaptable and proficient in learning new concepts quickly and efficiently.
Learned and adapted quickly to new technology and software applications.
Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment.
Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.
Demonstrated strong organizational and time management skills while managing multiple projects.
Content Licensing Specialist
3 Years
Higher Education Group McGraw-Hill | 01.2015 - 01.2018
Collaborated with product teams on project planning and budget management.
Maintain budget cost for projects.
Delivered bi-weekly reports to Content Project Manager and Editorial on permissions and contract statistics.
Monitored freelancer progress to ensure adherence to project deadlines.
Provided support and guidance to freelancers to enhance their performance.
Create Order Fulfillment
1 Year
McGraw-Hill | 01.2014 - 01.2015
Assisted instructors and sales representatives in developing custom textbooks to meet specific educational needs.
Manual bill, credit invoices and price adjustments for bookstore accounts.
Coordinated with print vendors to ensure timely delivery of materials.
Facilitated the acquisition of access codes for eBook orders to support sales. for eBook orders.
Troubleshooting custom projects.
Product Manager Learning Solutions Representative
3 Years
McGraw-Hill | 01.2010 - 01.2013
Assure Learning Solutions projects get into production for on time delivery for Learning Solutions Consultants.
Tracked and updated backorder status for timely fulfillment.
Assured Learning Solutions projects entered production for on-time delivery to support Learning Solutions Consultants.
Keeping updated projects to the sales managers.
Developed and wrote original project content for various clients.
Provided sales managers with regular updates on project statuses.
Sales representative
6 Years
McGraw-Hill | 01.2004 - 01.2010
Grew business and maximized sales of higher education solutions by identifying and targeting key market opportunities.
Built strong relationships with professors, faculty, and administrators, serving as a trusted advisor for higher education content and identifying new publishing opportunities.
Collaborated with college bookstores to develop relationships with staff, enhancing visibility of educational products.
Work with Sales Managers to ensure alignment with sales strategy.
Work with Editorial and Marketing departments to leverage products and develop new sales tools.
Customer service representative
3 Years
Northwest Airlines | 01.2001 - 01.2004
Checked in passengers, ensuring smooth boarding process.
Issued tickets for employees and executives, facilitating travel arrangements.
Resolved customer inquiries and complaints, ensuring high satisfaction levels.
Coordinated flight reservations and alterations using proprietary booking systems.
Assisted in training new staff on customer service protocols and systems.
Administrative Assistant
7 Years
Fun –n-Games Company | 01.1993 - 01.2000
Managed bookkeeping for monthly reports to support strategic planning.
Coordinated communication with clients to confirm scheduled dates.
Compiled annual reports for State and Federal taxes to ensure compliance.
Education
BA - Marketing, Business Administrative
Clarke College | Dubuque | 01-1993
Skills
Project Management.
MHE digital products.
Customer support
Oracle
Analytical thinking
Organizational skills.
Leadership skills.
Salesforce
Group leadership
Proactive support
Positive demeanor
Customer engagement
Cross-functional collaboration
Problem-solving
Professional Affiliations
Global Volunteer Day, Youth Hockey Association., Albrecht Acres
<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform
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