Lorelei Caudill
Shelby, Ohio 44875
Will relocate for this position
Cell - 419-***-****
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorelei-caudill-5432025a/
**********@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
To take my 15 years of experience, transferrable skills and EI leadership style to a startup or growing business in San Francisco bay area.
EXPERIENCE
ES Consulting - Ontario, OH - MAY 2011 - CURRENT
Company Mission: Provide technology solutions and consulting for Small to Medium Businesses for business continuity
Director of Business Operations – 5 Years to current
Project Manager – 7 Years to current
Call Center Supervisor – 1 Year
VCIO / Solution Architect – 2 Years
STARTUP A COMPANY COMPETENCIES
Collaboration Across Agile Teams
Roll sleeve up and jump in the trenches with the team to assist in the trenches to create process improvements and implementation
Maintain and manage contract / agreements
Creative and strategic vendor management and planning
Monthly Reporting Auditing and Analysis
Perseverance through KPI and OKR analysis determining key team motivation strategies to ensure progress and accountability
Dedicated to client success and relationship management
Superior Negotiating Skills & Critical Thinking
Leveled decision making - With good business acumen, especially under pressure or unforeseen issues
Lead Teams - With positivity and emotional intelligence
Cost Management and Budgeting internal and external projects
Excellent organizational skills with task management and prioritization
Dedicated to the successful client onboarding projects
Visionary - Creative efforts towards new product and solution strategy
Strategic - Organized new product solution R&D, road mapping, roll outs and implementation
Flexibility - Take ownership of any issue seeing it to close
School Specialty - Mansfield, OH - MAY 2004 – MAY 2011
Company Mission: Provide furniture and equipment to new school construction / remodel projects throughout the United States.
Bid Specialist Furniture and Equipment – 2 years
Project Management – 5 years
Warehouse Associate – 2 Months
CORPORATE COMPETENCIES
Participate in Process Improvements - Committee Chair Member
Successfully Manage Government 10+ Bids and Contracts
Strategic Mindset – Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
Action Oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm.
Plans and Aligns- Plan and prioritize work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
Ensure Accountability - Hold self and others accountable to meet commitments
Drive Results – Consistent in achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
Customer Focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions
Decision Quality – Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
Manage Complexity – Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
Courage - Step up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.
Instills Trust - Gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
Resourcefulness – Securing and deploying resources effectively and efficiently.
Persuade – Using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others.
Organizational Savvy – Maneuver comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics.
Financial Acumen – Interpret and apply understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.
Resilient – Rebound from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.
SKILLS
Sales and Consulting – 7 years
Provide solution matrix comparing solutions to prepare sales team for client objections
Conduct and coordinate sales training
Manage CRM data input process to manage and monitor opportunities
Manage system updates and utilize new software features turning them into new processes
Change Management
Direct B2B Consulting Services
Compliance Alignment: ISO 27001, 9001, and 22301, SOX, HIPAA, and PCI
Create & prepare responses bid proposals / RFP / New Construction Contracts
Prepare formal bid responses for Government / Education requests
Conduct onsite Network Evaluations and Assessments
Meet with clients to review current networks pains and requests to implement new software / hardware solutions
Design hardware solutions the meet specified requirements and minimum industry standard
Design and propose network infrastructure (on prem and cloud solutions)
Create scope of work and estimated hours to propose add, change or move projects
Analyze kitting needs compatibility issues and production bottlenecks to decrease downtime
Manage processes involving Procurement / Receiving / RMA / Warranty
Manage product life cycle, maintenance and support, EOL and recommended replacement
Inspire and motivate new sales initiatives and teams
Create and manage vendor score cards
Project Management – 15 years
New Client Onboarding SaaS Solutions & Managed Service Agreements
Create SOW for Add Change Move solutions, identify project risks and mitigation plans
Coordinate and conduct preinstall, mid project, and project close meetings
Manage 10 – 15 projects (Projects up to $1M)
Manage and monitor project budget, cost and time
Coordinate product delivery and receiving
Establish communication expectations to stakeholders and client
Drive the strategic direction as required for more complicated account setups to ensure successful completion
Ensure communication expectations are meet with project status and coordinating deliverable project documentation
Assist technical team with any additional research required to help complete tasks in a timely manner
Coordinate project meetings to review issues and potential resolutions with risk management
Estimate any additional time that will be required to complete phase / tasks
Liaison for third party application project implementation
Communicate any unforeseen overages in time to stakeholders and client as needed
Drive continuous process improvement changes across multi-functional team
Managed overseas new school construction project
Apply customs and tariff knowledge
Create and manage punchlist items to project close
Analyze project cost / loss / profit
Freight analysis report
Process add, change, move requests and projects
Team Development – 6 years
Sales and Operations Planning
Leverage and schedule technical resources for projects
Review technical issues with assigned technicians ensuring they are fully prepared for onsite visit
Manage technical staff certifications and renewal dates
Create new vendor / product onboarding processes and training across multi-functional teams
Mentor members of the sales and technical team to determine sales strategy and best practices for setup and configuration to achieve client's desired result
Empower members of the Implementation team to be successful in project management and to ensure product implementations are as smooth as possible
Supervise issue resolutions and address questions from external customers as needed
Lead employee (individual and manager) development through clear goal setting, training plans, regular mentoring and performance reviews
Operations – 5 years
Manage Sales Funnel and monthly reports
Forecast sales, plan and coordinate professional services resources
Manage inventory, hardware WIP, and professional services WIP
Manage processes with road mapping and implementation planning
Participate in organic growth strategic planning
Create programs through gap analysis, R&D and OKR
Guide and motivate program development teams providing objectives, goals and deadlines
Maintain advanced knowledge of each product and solutions for which the Implementation team is responsible
Create and monitor KPI for technical team and sales
Create and provide month end reports and analysis to President
Analyze monthly P&L
Monitor and conduct audit for significant changes
Implement process changes across multi-functional team
Regularly review and ensure that policies, procedures and guidelines are being followed
Create and manage employee training and onboarding
Manage client relations
Create / Revise / Manage company handbook policy changes
Manage company benefits and new enrollment
Manage client service agreement
Meet with President and VP to discuss marketing and sales strategies for organic growth
EDUCATION
ASSOCIATES DEGREE – ACCOUNTING
University of Phoenix
Graduated in 2010
MICROSOFT CERTIFICATIONS
SMB Solutions & MS Licensing Specialist
CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS
New startup company
Action: Lead and managed two business acquisitions increasing revenue over 800% in 5 years through acquisition and organic growth through program development
ohttps://www.channele2e.com/news/msp-acquisition-es-consulting-buys-itt/
ohttps://www.inc.com/profile/es-consulting
ohttps://www.richlandsource.com/business/mt-business-technologies-strengthens-strategic-partnership-with-es-consulting/article_1b99be30-c0e8-11e3-a561-001a4bcf6878.html
Compliance
Action: Studied PCI and HIPAA Compliance, created matrix aligning our current services to IT Safeguards.
Outcome: Identified holes in our services allowing our R&D team to fill in those gaps, therefore now providing our clients a full clear service offering.
IT Security
Need: Additional security solutions to offer a full-scale solution for HIPAA Compliance to our clients.
Action: Lead "Visionary Teams" developing programs that cover each aspect of Business Continuity. In my latest program development initiative, I managed 4 small teams focusing on Security and Backup Disaster Recovery Solutions.
Outcome: 3 areas of managed services implementing SaaS solutions in FIM, quarterly vulnerability scans, remediation planning, network monitoring, dark web monitoring, and automated virtual spin up testing of backup chains. I assisted with creating roadmaps that outlined client onboarding, project management, implementation, along with continuous management and monitoring of services.