Manager Project

Kenny Pecka

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SUMMARY

• Experienced professional with a strong technical ability and background

• Track record of successful customer and account management

• Proven project manager with ability to establish and maintain cooperative and productive relationships

• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills

• Motivated and ambitious with a contagious positive attitude

EXPERIENCE

Volt Technical Resources

8/07 - 1/09 Technical Recruiter Spokane, WA

• Recruiting manager responsible for filling key technical positions at Microsoft Corporation, including:

• Program/Product Managers

• Business/System Analysts

• Software Test Engineers

• Software Design Engineers in Test

• Established strong relationships with Microsoft hiring managers and attained high levels of satisfaction

and success

• Developed detailed understanding of position requirements and individual manager preferences which

enabled a highly successful placement rate

• Provided job search consultation and advocacy for candidates

• Facilitated all communication between Microsoft hiring managers and candidates

• Managed hiring and on-boarding process including phone screens, in-person interviews, offer extension

and acceptance, orientation procedures, and final placement hand-off

First Interstate Mortgage

2/07 - 8/07 Sr. Loan Officer Spokane, WA

• Recruited by branch manager to join growing business

• Provided professional consultation to clients for home mortgage loans

• Facilitated the end-to-end process including collecting and reviewing required document, oversight of

underwriting/approval processes and coordinating third-party activities (appraisal, title/escrow, etc.)

• Developed prospect lists and successful lead management process to attain high closure rate

Household Finance

4/06 - 1/07 Account Executive Spokane, WA

• Sold and wrote home mortgages, home equity and signature lines of credit, and automobile loans

• Up sold credit casualty insurance through consultative selling process

• Delivered loan proposal and explanation presentations to demonstrate concrete loan benefits and

provide high levels of service and satisfaction

• Identified leads and solicited potential customers primarily via telephone

Pentad Systems

12/03 - 3/06 Account Manager/ Marketing Manager Spokane, WA

• Founding team member with wide variety of customer, technical and corporate development

responsibilities

• Managed multiple customer accounts from sales process through system deployment and go-live

• Defined plan, strategy, budget, and schedule for custom web-based business solutions for small to

medium-sized companies

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• Delivered on-site quality assurance, customer service, and training for the deployment and integration

of Pentad applications with customer's legacy mainframe systems and/or web portals

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• Developed and delivered marketing presentations and application demos for prospects, provided onsite

remote, and at trade show venues

• Primary project leader responsible for gathering customer requirements and system specifications

• Facilitated cross-functional communication with the development and test teams to successfully hand-

off system specifications and represent customer needs

• Fielded customer complaints and support issues and worked cross-organizationally to define solutions

and action plans

• Developed and executed new hire on-boarding program

• Corporate leader focused on the successful development of a positive corporate culture

Summers of Agilent Technologies

2000 - 2002 Information Technologies Intern Liberty Lake, WA

• Worked as part of the System Administrators and Unix Support Team for Agilent’s Liberty Lake site

• Key projects and technologies used:

• Global Invocatable Redesign Project: Created and implemented multi-platform application wrapper

scripts for a new configuration mechanism at the Spokane and Lake Stevens sites using

administrative Perl runtime scripts

• Online Server Tracking Tool: Created a multi-platform online server tracker for HP-UX, SunOS, and

Linux workstations for the Spokane site technical computing team using PHP/mySQL

• Hostname/IP Address Change Automation Script: Programmed administrative Unix shell scripts that

automated the hostname and/or IP address change process for Unix workstations for the Spokane

site technical computing infrastructure using ksh, bash

• Gained experience with Non-Windows Operating Systems (Unix, Linux, SunOS, HP-UX)

• Gained software programming experience using KSH, BASH, Perl, PHP, Java, and HTML

EDUCATION

Whitworth University - Spokane, WA

B.S in Computer Science

Minor in Mathematics

Graduated in 2004

-- References available upon request --

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