Project Management

LINDA SHERMAN 925-***-**** - actp0z@r.postjobfree.com

Career experience incorporates seventeen years business and finance management for medium to large projects. Leverage internal and external relationships creating cohesion between teams. Modernize processes achieving decreased cost and increased margins. Combine project management and finance experience maintaining firm focuses on business goals. Execute multiple tasks simultaneously and manage resources ensuring phases, activities and tasks are completed. Relocation considered.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Project Management:

Manage, lead, or collaborate in project lifecycle: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring/controlling, and closing. Address project challenges proactively, contribute to strategies and plans managing project objectives. Largest project 2,900 cell sites.

Risk Management:

Identify project risks, provide or contribute to solutions; root cause analysis. Manage contract administration and supplier management for tier 1 and tier 2 subcontractors; manage project budget control. Follow appropriate procedure escalating potential issues achieving early resolution. Clearly communicate objectives and boundaries to teams. Manage cost commitments of $320M.

Resource Management:

Communicate, manage and leverage internal and external relationships ensuring project time, cost, scope, and quality are sustained. Foster cross-functional teamwork, utilizing internal policies and procedures to meet project deliverables. Provide project training for off-shore administrative support team. Manage/lead 6 field construction managers, 5 project administrators, and 18 suppliers.

Project Scheduling:

Continuously update build schedule; manage daily construction call, informing team of project status. Revise forecast, and update actual deliverables; communicating project status to customer and executive management. Manage project build schedule for 418 sites.

Project Status:

Attend management and development team meetings; collaborate effectively with internal and external teams. Support project close-out process; document project achievements and lessons learned writing final Project Summary Report and Project Supplier Management Guideline.

Finance Management:

Manage meetings with external suppliers approving purchase order requests and negotiating out-of-scope items. Provide governance reports, costs to complete, and report key performance indicators. Reduce reserve on unrealized cost increasing overall margin. Meet with customer submitting, negotiating and gaining approval for add-on sales. Provide full scale accounting support including general ledger maintenance, financial statements, and audits. Manage annual audit, operating budgets, work breakdown structure, bill of materials, and inventories.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fusion Solutions – Plano, TX

Network Build Construction and Project Finance Manager, Consultant to Ericsson October 2013 – October 2015

T-Mobile L700 MHZ Project, Denver CO Market

Responsibilities:

Contribute to initial product rollout; interview perspective suppliers and provide in-market onboarding; establish tools and processes planning market readiness. Identify and resolve issues impacting project goals. Manage daily deployment call with field construction managers. Provide and report product delivery results bi-weekly via conference call to executive leadership. Create and institute supplier change order process; reject or negotiate unfavorable bids. Accumulate and present to customer add-on sales for out-of-scope work; negotiate, finalize, and gain approval. Manage key financial reports, margin analysis, and cycle time reporting; train and manage off-shore project support team. Provide field construction managers with project tools including method of procedures for pre-construction, site build, and close-out processes. Manage corrective construction activities for sites with close-out risk. Contribute to overall project close-out, exit strategies, and author Project Summary Report and Project Supplier Management Report.

Achievements:

Exceed Build Expectations - Complete Q4/2014 construction goal 2 weeks in advance of schedule; surpass stretch goals

Risk Issue Resolved - Correct construction issues and process preventing site close-out; coach team, manage corrections and resubmit close-out packages

Special Project - Support Google Fiber Project in Oregon and L700 in New Jersey; provide streamline method to manage supplier costs and train market with process; review and analyze project status; provide reports

Network Build National Operations Governance Business Analyst, Consultant to Ericsson

Network Build Services and Support (T-Mobile and AT&T, National Programs), Plano TX

Responsibilities:

Supervise program support activities for delivery unit management teams, providing program statistics and key performance information for all ongoing national projects. Conduct governance meetings with regional directors. Collaborate with key stakeholders identifying specific areas for improvement. Provide transparency to project processes by connecting separate teams, evaluating issues and resolving problems. Target behavior change by delivering strategic solutions, increasing efficiency and creating method-monitoring results; vital areas impacted are site close-out process, end-to-end cycle time efficiency, forecast accuracy and plan accountability. Reduce reserve for unrealized cost, audit non-billed revenue, margin analysis including recovery details.

Achievements:

$13M Cost Reduction - audit reserve for unrealized costs concentrating on sites construction complete, resolve issues preventing removal of obsolescent cost (process instituted as a “best practice”)

250 Average Days Cycle Time Reduction - engage cross-functional teams resolving issues preventing on-time performance

CX Start Forecast Accuracy - assess forecasted on-time performance and factors effecting success; identify specific sites impacting performance negatively; resolve issues to improve timeline and relationship between milestones and tasks

Special Project – collaborate with Director of Logistics to audit national project inventory movement and warehouse cost

Repeat Consultants – Detroit, MI July 2012 - July 2013

Regional Commercial Contracts Manager, Consultant to Samsung Telecom America

Sprint Network Vision, Michigan and Ohio Markets

Responsibilities:

Manage project costs ($280M) and exercise functional authority over civil engineering service contract adherence for deployment of 2,900 wireless telecom facility microwave and fiber cable installation projects. Provide support and guidance to cross-functional teams. Develop and implement procedures for contract administration. Contribute to and influence company policies, driving program profitability. Evaluate supplier purchase orders and excluded fee requests and negotiate out-of-scope costs for end-to-end project cost approval.

Achievements:

Recover $1.9M Project Costs - implement new guidelines eliminating future risk

Improve Cycle Time Efficiency by 15% - expedite supplier build service approval requests

Increase Collaboration - create a problem solving relationship with vendors by instituting a “One Team – One Customer” concept, creating early identification of risk issues resulting in expedient course corrections

Eliminate Future Contract Disputes – create and manage Vendor Excluded Fee Guideline Report clarifying negotiated agreements, implemented nationally for the Sprint New Vision Project

Introduce Supplier Evaluation Program - qualify and rate work performed including time frames met against contractual agreement

Multipoint Wireless LLC – Pleasanton, CA April 2010 - April 2012

Financial Controls Manager – Site Acquisition, Consultant to Ericsson

AT&T New Cingular, San Francisco Market

Responsibilities:

Supervision of site acquisition deliverable approvals and payment approval authority of supplier invoices. Coordinate and monitor project administrator work performed. Review and approve site acquisition close-out package for completed sites ensuring cost and deliverable(s) recorded is accurate. Publish weekly cash forecast report and subsequent customer invoicing; manage resolution of returned (unapproved) invoices. Audit and update status of technically completed sites, review and analysis margin report, and work-in-process reports.

Achievements:

15% Reduction in Purchase Order Processing Cost - submit Purchase Optimization Plan to eliminate duplicate costs, speed approval process, and increase managerial control, (Plan instituted nationally)

Remove 17% Overstated Cost Commitments - audit project reports correcting deliverable errors

Streamline Approval Process - document vendor deliverable procedure and publish document coaching process; implemented as the official training document for Site Acquisition Financial Controls Managers

Resolve Supplier Risk Issue – create, implement and manage Vendor Reconciliation Program controlling adherence to contractual time commitments and resolution of issues eliminating non-compliance and risk

Sterling Strategies – Greater San Francisco Area, CA November 2006 - February 2010

Founder and President

Responsibilities:

Provide strategies and business guidance services related to business plans, communication strategies, marketing, budgets, financial statements, goal setting and timeline improvement. Provide strategies and services in relationship marketing and social media. Pioneered Business Speed Networking Program connecting business to business and providing a forum for local business people to connect and create solid business relations. Plan and execute business trade shows from inception to completion.

Achievements:

Increase Immediate Sales and Market Visibility - orchestrate and conduct Business Speed Networking and Trade Shows at individual business locations; each event included a minimum of 25 Exhibitors and 100 plus attendees

Write Business Plans for emerging organizations - coach client and/or attend meetings with potential investors/sponsors

Genesis Microchip - Milpitas, CA December 1999 - August 2005

Accounting and Credit Manager, Faroudja Division

Responsibilities:

Manage team of 3 accountants providing full scale accounting and internal control functions, including month-end, quarterly and year-end financial reports. Maintain appropriate procedures for accurate maintenance of the general ledger with work breakdown structure, purchasing, expense report processing, billing, credit, collections and accounts payable. Interact with sales, production and customer service to analyze revenue related transactions; inventory control, manufacturing, purchase order processing, sales order processing. Manage annual operating budget review, establishment, and monitoring. Drive continuous improvement in policies, processes and reporting. Maintain relationship with external auditors; oversee annual financial audit. System Administrator for Expandable; responsible for overseeing the installation of upgrades, beta testing for business processes, manage normal maintenance and train all corporate users.

Achievements:

SOX Project 2005 - write System Narrative for the manufacturing process (work-in-process to finished goods)

Corporate Merger - provide detailed financial reporting, schedules, and detailed analysis for 2 separate corporate mergers

Reduce Month-End Close Process – standardize GL close process; reduce cycle time from 6 days to 3 days

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration-Concentration in Project Management

University of Phoenix, Dallas, Texas (pursuing)

Business Administration

American River College, Sacramento California, (transfer preparation)

Loral Langemeier Cash Machine and Big Table

12 month Coaching Program, Lake Tahoe, Nevada

COMPUTER PROGAMS

MS Office • Site Handler • NORAD • Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) • SAP • Sharepoint

• Clarity • Continuous

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