Dalal Beacom

Addison, IL *****

847-***-**** ● ac33dd@r.postjobfree.com ● https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalalbeacom

Accomplished Project Manager

Distinguished record of delivering multi-million dollar strategies and solutions for complex communication systems. Deep experience coordinating all aspects of project management from strategy development, cost analysis, risk analysis, building relationships across internal, customer and supplier teams, scoping service quotes, and identifying key resources. Strong leader of cross-functional global teams driven by collaboration and exceeding customer satisfaction. Specializes in identifying product requirements, vendor management, product development, interfacing between development engineering and customer, program management, proposal development, and system engineering.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Program Management ● Engineering ● Hardware & Software Upgrades ● Data Migration ● Customer Relationship Building ● Product Development ● Cross-Functional Remote Team Management ● Cost Reduction ● Resource Management ● Strategy ● Project Delivery Management ● Project Service Delivery Proposal Development ● Collaboration ● Staff Recruitment & Training ● SDLC ● Agile/Waterfall

Software Licensing Administration ● Contractor/Vendor Management ● Project Scoping ● SCRUM Microsoft Office, Project, Visio ● WordPress ● Basecamp ● Confluence ● Wrike ● Asana ● SharePoint

EXPERIENCES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

SapientRazorfish, Chicago, IL

Site Merchandising Manager December, 2017-January, 2018 (Contract position)

Managed site refreshes, website messaging, advertising, product displays and promotional items.

STRATA/Comcast, Chicago, IL

Project Manager October, 2016-February, 2017 (Contract position)

Developed and implemented process for corporate-wide rebranding initiative.

Created and gathered requirements and content for new website.

Responsible for identifying key deliverables, creating a schedule and holding cross-functional teams accountable for meeting project deadlines including website creation, product and software development and marketing collateral refreshes.

Provided regular updates to senior executive team. Managed efforts of external design firms and coordinated deliverables across internal and external teams.

MARSHALL, GERSTEIN AND BORUN LLP, Chicago, IL

Technical Specialist October,2015-October, 2016

Prepared and prosecuted patents for clients in electrical, software and mechanical technology areas.

Liaison between the Federal Patent Office and the inventor, ensuring that the patent application is complete and issues regarding the invention are resolved.

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, Schaumburg, IL

Project Manager/Presales Business Manager 2011-2015

Simultaneously and continuously led 8-10 multimillion dollar upgrade and migration projects in Midwest territory and Canada. Planned, implemented, and completed projects against aggressive deadlines, including acquiring resources and coordinating cross-functional teams. Defined customer requirements, determined strategies, identified budgets, evaluated risk, established project schedules, managed P&L, and developed customer show pricing. Managed software licensing agreements. Drove sales, engineering, training, proposal center and service to develop technical solutions and implementation methodologies.

Achieved $150M of awarded projects by developing implementation approaches and service plans.

Hand-selected to resolve inconsistencies in quoting complex, mission-critical public safety communication systems across region for key account, exceeding senior leadership’s expectations.

Reduced risk by ensuring quoting was inline across regional territories by compiling documentation containing pricing comparisons for systems with similar scope.

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, Home Based

System Planner 2007-2011

Key liaison between development engineering, product group, sales, system engineering and customer. Developed long-term strategies for large government municipalities maximizing customers’ communications capabilities. Advised management on market trends and identified critical customer needs for product development and life-cycle roadmap.

Led product group effort in supporting $500M+ project from inception to RFP evaluation to an award, prioritizing features on roadmap enabled customer efficiencies.

Enabled 95% of large projects awarded within personal territory by determining product offerings, verifying system design and assessing competition.

Streamlined technical engineering coordination between U.S.-based and field teams in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Israel, Australia, Canada and Northeastern United States.

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, Schaumburg, IL

Release Manager 2000-2007

Essential Program Manager driving marketing and product development deliverables and schedules for hardware and software development for mission-critical system releases. Championed feature requirements and definitions, feature prioritization, business justification, software licensing agreements and promotion strategy. Drove products and systems from marketing research, creating marketing requirements, feature costing, prioritizing features on roadmap, identifying resources, software development, testing and certification.

Drove end-to-end product development and installation for systems totaling $125M annually, including marketing requirements, product specifications and testing.

Revamped enterprise-wide employee training program, creating and implementing program within three months, while reducing costs by $50K annually.

Recognized for commitment and dedication in successfully driving extremely complex and demanding hardware and software release, working over late nights, weekends and holidays.

Created marketing support material including sales presentations, pre-release training, Request for Proposal (RFP) verbiage, and system documentation.

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS

Product Manager (Schaumburg, IL)

Through an emphasis on collaboration and personal development, managed, motivated and guided team of five product planners who focused on telephony, comparators and data networks.

Marketing Engineer (Schaumburg, IL)

Transformed technical material covering RF simulcast and conventional communications, data transmissions and competitive intelligence into marketing material, presentations & proposal verbiage.

System Engineer (Maitland, FL)

Interfaced with customers, assessed requirements for RF trunking and conventional communication systems including dispatch, subscriber, and RF coverage design, developing holistic solutions that met customers’ communication needs.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration, Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

AWARDS

Quality Hero, Motorola: For leading team in identifying and implementing changes on cycle time, quality and support of system release notes. 2006

Bravo, Motorola: For commitment and dedication in successfully driving an extremely complex and demanding release which entailed long work days, weekends, and holidays. 2007

Team Recognition, Motorola: For driving improvements on system migrations and upgrades and reducing downtime and database restoration. 2011

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