Lanny Rivera
***** ********* ****** *******, ********, VA 20165
703-***-**** ********@*****.***
Objective: To be part of a growing company where I can utilize my
technical background and business development to build a strong
client base for the company and develop my growth as a leader
Qualifications and Skills
. 7+ solid years of strategic business development and client
support analyst experience
. Account maintenance, financial analysis, client database management
. Working knowledge through technical writing on requirements
documentation, defining scope, and objectives
. Resource analyst providing inside sales, vendors, and clients
effective business solution tools
. Provide data analysis & resources for clients from boarding new
accounts to process upgrades
. Assist in developing and providing consultative expertise to
partner sales offices and 3rd party vendors (4+yrs)
. Trained in Requirements Development Process, CRM systems and
processes of the Product Dev Life Cycle
. Have functional and technical skills to accomplish high level work
and able to train user on new functionalities
. Excellent organizational skills and researcher with high level
report writing
. Perform necessary research and provide analysis between usability
and performance needs
. Skilled at business analysis, gathering requirements, casing,
testing, training, reporting and utilizing spec docs
. Establish contacts in all industries: retail, banking, government,
enterprise environments
. Understand specific marketing programs to generate leads and target
sales activities
. Ability to identify and fill in the gaps and areas of deficiencies
through casing, knowledgebase, prototyping
. Experienced with project planning, timeline management, issue
tracking, and implementation; project life cycle
. Self- motivated and thrives in fast paced, dynamic environments;
can work in a team or independently with minimal supervision;
enjoys hard work; results-oriented
. Ability to learn new methodologies and explain things in more
practical terms according to audience
. Understand business development modes and strategies for success
and profitability
. A strategic brainstormer, a campaign developer that executes
creative collaborative work
Education
Completed 2005
University of Maryland, Adelphi, MD
Computer Information Systems (Bachelors) 3.6 GPA,
Academic Excellence Dean's List 2004-05
Completed 2008
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Technical Writing
A Certification
Employment History
04/2013- 08/2014
Aerotek
Business Operations Contractor Consultant
Chantilly, VA
Project - Dell
Project - Aerotek client project
Project - Strayer University
Market strategies, educate customers, train consultants. Assist
clients with maintaining revenue and business goals
Create and send proposals for contract renewals. Customer service,
troubleshooting, recommend technical resolutions. Maintain accounts,
schedule customer consultation, advise on best use of company products
and resources.
Business Owner GetSmartMarket Sterling, VA
05/2011 - 05/2012
. Phone and face-to-face customer home and business services
. Negotiate with vendors, institutions, contractors
. Hiring employees, creating work schedules, invoicing,
equipment/supply purchases
. Creative designer of marketing materials, setting up proposals and
contracts, sales and services, product and service selling. Setup
client meetings for strategic advertising.
Accomplishment: Setup & establish all aspects of a business from
the ground-up including all
financial, vendors, marketing
materials, writing proposals, winning contracts
Client Technical Support /Virtual Terminal Analyst Sage Software
McLean, VA 11/2006 - 05/2011
. Manage incoming merchant calls, emails, troubleshooting and servicing
merchant virtual terminal problems (i.e. communication problems, system
errors)
. Provide tele-training services and reprogramming of devices to all new
merchants
. Provide assistance to Sales by pre-qualifying the needs of merchants and
provide recommendations for appropriate products according to business
industry
. Maintain daily rapport with ISO reps, relationship managers, sales force,
vendors, and business owners with credit and debit processing solutions
. Work with Risk Management to perform account maintenance per Visa
guidelines
. Assist Underwriting with account setup and classifications
Accomplishment: Grew with the company as it established many new
standards in IT, credit cards,
security, and data protection.
Opened and maintained 100's of accounts fulfilling
the company's objective of
maintaining a consistent revenue stream.
Loan Servicing Specialist Navy Federal Credit Union
Vienna, VA 11/2005 - 10/2006
. Ensured Call Center/Communication Center operations and communications
relating to financials are received; utilized various proprietary
software for data and calculation
. Verified accounts were valid and amounts transferred to correct
destinations
. Analyzed discrepancies in member accounts and loan applications for the
Loan Committee
. Identify, report, and communicate credit union products and services
including daily rates, credit score analysis and direct deposits, on
proprietary Support Center call tracking system
. Fielded calls in a high volume, multi-tasking environment according to
banking procedures
. Provided loan servicing from advising to application to information
retrieval, and calculation according to federal mandate; interviewed
prospective members for loans according to Federal guidelines.
Accomplishment: Applied loan qualification guidelines as well as
all aspects of banking regulations, data
security, supervisory skills,
managing people, working for an international business
that helped bring in record company
growth.
Other Experience
. Energy Sales (2013)
. Business Lead Development Sales and Marketing (Honda 2013)
. PeopleSoft Financial Support Analyst (2005)
. Course work in Requirements Development Process (RDP 2009)
. Jackson Hewitt tax training (2009)
. Advanced HTML, Microsoft Office, Salesforce, Sharepoint