Professional Experience:
Credere Corporation
Program Manager & Sr. Project Manager
. Designed and managed company to take products from prototype to
production: operations, manufacturing, vendor selection, and vendor
management.
. Analysis and creation of quarterly/annual budgets for multimillion
dollar client.
. Managed and led client's Program & Project Management practices.
Carrington Real Estate Services (formerly Atlantic & Pacific)
2010-Current
Real Estate Agent
Sales Agent for residential properties with primary focus on foreclosed
properties and buyer representation.
. Listed and closed over 80 properties in first 4 years.
. Effectively managed > 30 active listings concurrently
. Established Carrington presence in Monterey County - Only agent in
2010-2013. Added 3 additional agents in 2014.
CTB McGraw-Hill, Monterey, Ca.
2006-2009
Technical Project Manager
Technical Project Management of custom contracts for K-12 assessment test,
working directly with customers for developing Technical Requirements and
rules for scanning, scoring and reporting of assessment results.
. Managed scope, schedule and budget of technology deliverables in
support of student assessment programs for Wisconsin, Oklahoma and
Missouri. Programs included parent/student reports, state summary
reports, electronic student and summary files, online reporting,
online updates.
. Received commendation for increasing scope of Wisconsin contract,
delivering over $1.4M in incremental revenue.
Briggs Consulting Group, San Jose, Ca.
2004-2006
Program Management and Business Consulting
. Teltronics - Transitioned manufacturing package for VoIP phone from
developers in San Jose with manufacturing in Thailand to the end
customer in Sarasota, Fl. Collected and validated all manufacturing
documentation, procedures and processes.
. Solitec Wafer Processing - As Technical Writer, wrote user and
maintenance manuals for custom wafer processing equipment and quartz
cleaners.
Cidco Communications, Morgan Hill, Ca.
2003-2004
VP Corporate Quality
Responsible for Program Management Office, Corporate Quality, IT and
Facilities for this 60 person privately held telecommunications company.
. Led product team from prototype through product release, meeting all
targets dates for client evaluations and approvals with Verizon, SBC,
BellSouth & Qwest and established manufacturing at Benchmark in
Thailand.
. Company lead for joint development effort with Teltronics for a SIP
based VoIP phone utilizing Cidco's IP210 platform. Negotiated OEM
agreement. Selected as the single source provider of telephones for
Teltronics. Met all evaluation and product launch dates.
. Defined a vendor qualification and performance process for offshore
Contract Manufacturing vendors providing a consistent process for
measuring vendors for initial qualification and ongoing performance
(scorecard) evaluations.
. Developed and implemented a Six Phase Product Life Cycle program that
defined the requirements and deliverables from conception through end
of life, resulting in effectively prioritizing 25 current and proposed
projects, saving company resources. Reduced NPI cost & time by
accurately sequencing required events.
Briggs Consulting Group, San Jose, Ca.
1999-2003
Program Management and Business Consulting
. Credere Corporation (2003) Program Manager - Implemented operational
business processes - work process flows, work orders, inventory
controls, sales orders, invoicing, and project cost analysis.
. Adams Technology (2002-2003) - Sales Engineer/Program Mgr. - Sold and
managed several IT relocations - Mentor Graphics, City of Livermore &
Wealth Plan. All projects beat cost and met schedule.
. Solitec Wafer Processing (2000-2002) Test Engineer - Developed test
procedures and equipment to support manufacturing, trained production
personnel, engineering liaison.
. Nuasis (2000) - Director of Operations - Managed a team of eight
engineers supporting an ASP offering a complete call center solution
including, email mgr, collaboration, VoIP, with an Oracle database for
client history and tracking running on mixed platform of Unix, NT &
Linux.
. Reduced trouble ticket resolution time by >20% and received
executive recognition for dramatically improving customer service.
. Silicon Graphics (1999-2000) - Project Manager - Y2K - Managed team of
eight engineers to develop test scripts and perform test cycles to
validate system operations and business processes for Y2K
preparedness.
. Reviewed business process list of over a thousand identified
processes; established critical, important and other categories;
refocused the team to critical processes reducing the effort by a
factor of ten.
. Managed the documentation package for all test results with audit
approval
Sun Microsystems, Inc. Milpitas,Ca.
1997-1999
SunPeak Project Manager (Contractor)
Managed Sun's 3rd party Product Distribution Centers (Europe & US),
Business Integration test teams, and PMO for US applications for Sun's
(global) conversion to Oracle.
. Led US PDC that delivered 100% on time and 25% under cost projections
. Led Global WMS team, creating consistent world-wide solution between
Sun and its Product Distribution Centers (PDC) in the US and Europe
(separate 3rd party vendors).
. Coordinated the 15 test teams (US & Europe) testing over a thousand
test cases including over ten thousand conditions - achieved zero
dollar variance on 1st month close post go-live.
Additional Professional Experience
Project Manager SunMicrosystems 1997-1999
Test Engineer - Technical Writer Solitec Wafer Processing 1996-1997
Operations Engineering Manager InSolutions 1993-1996
Principal/Consultant Sierra Computer Services 1990-1993
Director of Operations Netcor, Inc. 1988-1990
New Product Introduction Mgr SunMicrosystems 1983-1998
Production Manager (Employee #9) Wyse Technology 1981-1983
Engineering NPI Manager Advanced Micro Devices 1981-1981
Test Manager International Memories Inc. 1978-1981
Test Supervisor Zilog Inc. 1976-1978
Test Engineer Monolithic Memories, Inc. 1974-1976
Engineering Technician Intel 1973-1974
Platforms & Applications:
Microsoft Project, PS8, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, PageMaker,
Corel, Quicken, PhotoSuite Windows, Unix, Solaris.
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Wayne Briggs