Abel J. Stephen

***** *. **** ***** ***** Ú Valencia, California 91354 Ú Telephone: 661-***-****

Email: ac4dua@r.postjobfree.com Ú Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/abelstephen

Strategic Analyst & Initiatives Lead

Senior Strategic Analyst and Lead, with more than 15 years of business, technology and operational leadership success in building unified performance based cultures that consistently converted organizational intent into deliverable, tangible results for companies ranging from a small privately held mobile application startup to 'Fortune 500' corporations.

Most recently, as Strategy Planning Consultant at Bank of America, led cross-functional stakeholders in developing an end-to-end assessment of Global Information security exception processes including; the identification of gaps, scoring of risks using the Bank’s proprietary tool(s), holistic remediation plans and timelines.

Accomplished as VP of Operations Strategy for ViSalus in Los Angeles California, the following 3 items 1) Developed strategy that successfully launched a global Project Management Office within 7 months; 2) Convinced senior management that legacy financial models in use were incomplete in the context of a turnaround and designed the solution to complete; and 3) Motivated an international, cross-functional team of employees to voluntarily undertake for over 2.5 years, additional strategic duties beyond their job functions without any additional compensation.

Areas of Expertise

Managing Startup/Turnaround Situations

Instituting Cost Conservation Measures

Strategic Operational Planning & Execution

Creating & Exceeding Key Performance Indicators

Generating Sustainable Revenue Improvements

Conducting In-Depth Organizational Needs Assessments

Creating a Shared Operational Management Vision

Building/Leading High-Performing, Cross-Functional Teams

Career Highlights

Played a key management role in preparing ViSalus for a turn-around by launching a global Project Management Office within 7 months that internationally unified the organization of work into a comprehensive portfolio of programs which bridged strategic investments down to accountable, project level execution, allowing by the 3rd year, a non-disruptive scaling down of work/resources by 52%, thereby increasing revenue per employee to over $350,000.

Turned around the PMO at CalOptima within 30 days by moving the project managers from spending upwards of 40% on administrative duties to almost 100% project management duties (of 2 programs and approximately 12 projects), which proved instrumental in enabling the organization to save $500,000 in consultant/vendor fees in the first 120 days.

Created at Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles, California, an operational plan that systematically managed fund-development-stakeholders while controlling operational 'scope creep'. Consequently, successfully turned around the prior 3 years of missing annual revenue goals to exceeding revenue goals of $45 million in each 'FY' 2006 and 2007.

Implemented at UCLA, a wide-array of strategic business process improvements in 6 months that successfully launched e-commerce products and services 3 times faster, generating more than $700,000 in yearly revenues with an additional $300,000 in hardware/software savings negotiated over a 2-year period.

What Others Say

"I worked with Abel Stephen during our mutual tenure with CalOptima. While Abel was employed for CalOptima he worked diligently to implement Best in Class processes and procedures for his team. He was instrumental in creating developmental programs to allow his direct reports to grow and utilize management practices that would not only allow them to assume leadership responsibilities for their assignments, but also provide the skills necessary to take their projects to the next level. Abel was very diligent in his vision and understood as well as utilized the mechanisms of project management."

...Vicki Hewlett, CEO, President at Hewlett Greene Consulting

Key Areas of Competency

IT Strategy & Business Alignment

Performance Gap Analysis

Quantitative & Qualitative Analysis

Business Process Reengineering

Board Level/Formal Presentation Skills

Systematic Control of Scope Creep

Ensuring High-Levels of Operational Readiness

Multi-Million Dollar Contract Negotiations

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Professional Experience & Accomplishments

Bank of America Ú Simi Valley, California Ú 2017 to Present

(A Fortune 50 commercial bank with 200K+ employees globally)

Consultant, Strategy & Planning – Principal duties covered formally leading, planning and executing activities to resolve a risk identified audit issue around exception management.

Successfully led Global Information Security stakeholders through three remediation action steps covering Policies, Controls, four different exception management systems along with Playbooks/processes of multiple departments.

ViSalus Ú Los Angeles, California Ú 2014 to October 1, 2016

(A multilevel marketing company based in Los Angeles, California with offices in Troy, Michigan)

VP Operations Strategy, Sales & Marketing – Scope of duties consisted of designing operational strategy to anticipate and address turnaround needs that included aggressively base-lining the business through a decision framework, organizing from tasks to strategic investments.

Personally innovated a series of statistical tools, one of which is currently in submission for a software utility patent, and all have proved fundamental to continuous refinement of core-business with a strong focus on data-driven learnings within context of turn-around situations.

CalOptima Ú Orange, California Ú 2013

(A $3+ billion, county organized health system and the single largest health insurer based in Orange County, California)

Director of Project Management Office (PMO) – Primary duties focused on 'reconstituting the PMO' by creating an actionable implementation plan within the first 30 days that obtained full budget approval.

Developed a comprehensive vision, mission and strategy map that identified among other things, the need for implementing new KPIs as well as the inaugural PMO Executive Dashboard, which transformed the previously available but unused MicroStrategy platform from being a sunk-cost into a dynamic reporting tool utilized to predict ongoing demand on PMO resources.

Evolutionate Ú Chatsworth, California Ú 2012

(A software development company specializing in mobile apps based in Chatsworth, California)

Chief Operating Officer (COO) – Responsibilities included leading and establishing all aspects of the company's operational and business/technology strategy. Additionally, oversaw the execution of operational plans in line with client and vendor SLAs, ensuring that activities and projects were funded and resourced appropriately.

Played a key management role in facilitating the identification and evaluation of the organization’s key operational risks, which proved instrumental in turning around very difficult relationships with international technology firms.

The Myrtum Corporation Ú Santa Clarita, California Ú 2007 to 2012

(A cloud-based web development and hosting company based in Santa Clarita, California)

Consultant – Charged with creating a cloud-based, web hosting line of services that included creating and architecting evolving iterations of social-network website and iPhone apps, for cause-marketing for SMB websites.

Created an innovative cloud-based line of service integrating online, social media and mobile platforms for cause-marketing, which was subsequently cited in Direct Marketing Association’s Non-Profit Federation Volume 14: Issue 1 January 2011 (pg 3, 26-28).

The Union Rescue Mission Ú Los Angeles, California Ú 2005 to 2007

(One of the largest rescue missions in the US and the oldest non-profit mission based in Los Angeles, California)

VP, Development & Business Strategies – Responsible for creating and managing strategic business plans to drive both the Development and Marketing Divisions’ operational performance.

Integrated new accountability measures and KPIs, for previously siloed development and marketing divisions, in order to smoothly reorganize more than 35 personnel in launching successful campaigns including: events, online giving, foundation giving, and corporate giving, in person solicitation, direct mail, print, radio, and email strategies.

Abel J. Stephen

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Prior 2005 Professional Experience

University of California Los Angeles Career Center Ú Los Angeles, California

Assistant Director, IT Ú 2002 to 2005

Kaufman Patricoff Enterprises Ú Los Angeles, California

Director, Systems Engineering Ú 2000 to 2001

InfoWorks-Viacom Inc. Ú New York, New York

Systems Administrator Ú 1999 to 2000

Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. Ú New York, New York

Administrator Ú 1998 to 1999

Computer Associates International, Inc. Ú Islandia, New York

Project Lead/QA Engineer Ú 1997 to 1998

New York City Hospitals Ú New York City, New York

Medical Technologist Ú 1992 to 1997

Education/Award & Certification

BS, Biology, Brooklyn College (City University of New York), Brooklyn, New York

Recipient of 'On the Spot Awards', 2003 & 2004, UCLA Career Center

Project Management Certification - Earned with Distinction, UCLA Extension

Supply Chain Analytics Certificate, MITx

Endorsements

"I am a co-founder of Akamai Technologies and the Managing Member of JUMP Investors, an investment firm specializing in real estate, private equity, hedge funds and venture capital. Abel is an intelligent, creative, thoughtful, hard-working, efficient, pleasant consultant who did more for our investment firm and portfolio companies than any other consultant we have used in our 11 years of operations. His quick, strategic assessment of our technological needs and seamless implementation of a cost-effective solution was incredibly impressive and saved us a substantial sum of money and will serve us well for many years in the future."

...Randall Kaplan, JUMP Investors, Co-Founder at Akamai Technologies

""While serving on the Board of Directors at the Union Rescue Mission, I became aware of Abel Stephen's work when he began reporting to the Board in his employed capacity as VP of Development and Business Strategies, with overall accountability for Operation and Capital Campaign revenues. Understanding the difficult challenges that he inherited when he assumed his responsibilities, I remain pleased to have found him to be a faithful steward, bringing transparency, innovation, and results, with disciplined integrity. Abel also consistently demonstrated exemplary dedication to the care of his staff and colleagues. For these same reasons, I would recommend Abel as an excellent potential employee/consultant."

...Stanley Gerlach, Senior V.P. at CBRE

“I had the privilege of working with Abel directly on some very innovative and meaningful work while he was with my company. During his time, Abel helped create and implement an operational strategy and framework that transformed how we connect strategy to day to day execution. He provided valuable mentorship to a lot of the team, challenging them to raise their own standards. In addition to being a master in operations, Abel had a large impact on improving the internal culture of our team. I would personally love to work with him again in the future and believe he would add a lot of value to any team.”

...Blake Mallen, President at ViSalus

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