Kathi Brandt

El Dorado Hills, CA ***** acxjm5@r.postjobfree.com 916-***-****

Senior Project/Program Manager

Profile Summary

Realtor/Real Estate Investor

-$1.5M+ real estate transactions successfully completed as a Realtor

-Managed construction and sale of several homes with total profits exceeding $1M as an investor

Senior Strategic Planner

-Program manager for 15+ member project teams/sub-teams performing the long range planning for the consumer desktop PC and digital home segments.

-Planned 3 separate hardware platforms and 2 complex software bundles launching consecutive years from 2005 through 2011.

-Developed clear project objectives, thorough project plans and schedule, status reports, feature cost/benefit analyses, and final documentation for engineering.

Senior Graphics Software Product Marketing Engineer

-Drove all marketing activities for 2 separate releases of the graphics software to coincide with the desktop platform launches in 2004 and 2005.

-Project Manager to define requirements for two critical, late-add features and establish final schedule for the 2005 software release

-Established a corporate wide platform launch schedule to meet changing customer deployment needs

Information Technology Manager

-Managed 19 Product Engineers who developed and supported the desktop/notebook OS and Core Apps builds for 10,000+ clients and productivity solutions for 9,000 employees

-Delivered Windows and Office XP builds for 10,000+ clients using consistent engineering process discipline. Resulted in successful landing with record low number of issues.

Senior IT Product Manager

-Project Manager to define components of an end-to end static web publishing capability and a shared environment for dynamic web sites, worth $7M savings for the company.

-Developed business proposals, obtained staff sponsors, and managed teams to release all associated products, developed/deployed customer engagement process and worldwide support structure (program web-site, training, call center support).

Validation IT Manager

-Managed the start-up of the Validation Information Technology Department in a newly restructured organization. Organized the 18 member department, built 5 teams, developed annual plan and budget, aligned projects with business goals and spending.

-Program Manager of vendor software development team, internal project team to develop/deliver analysis tools for new corporate wide semiconductor tester. Managed the $1M+ budget and a highly matrixed complex management reporting structure.

Professional Experience

Realtor (Self-Employed) 3/2014 – Current

As a Realtor, I own and manage a small business specializing in residential properties.

Created and executed annual marketing plans incorporating Google Ads, Geo-Farming, Open Houses, Newsletters, Social Media, etc. to create my brand

Continuously monitor marketing results to make adjustments to the most and least effective programs

Building client list with 100s+ leads

Real Estate Investor 3/1999 – 6/2007

As a Real Estate Investor, I partnered with a construction company to procure, develop, and sell high end residential real estate.

Selected and procured the lots, oversaw architectural design/plans, managed the construction process, meeting both schedule and budget goals.

Managed the construction financials to control costs and set final sales price.

Intel Corporation (Folsom, CA)

Strategic Planner 6/2004 – 1/2011

As a Strategic Planner, I managed the 18+ month 3 phase planning lifecycle to establish and obtain support for the software and hardware platform strategies, requirements, and new business opportunities.

Defined the good, better, best strategies to distinguish the features between various price points of each platform.

Drove a consumer quantitative study for platform to define targeted usages and measure customer appeal to facilitate feature prioritization.

Drove user optimization study for platform to define usages with suggested price points to determine which bundles of features would produce the most user appeal and willingness to buy.

Managed the financials for platform with a cost/benefit analysis of each new feature to justify its priority while ensuring platform met product margin goals.

Identified new business opportunities such as a new set of technologies that would prevent online identity theft. Drove a team of architects to deliver a feasible architecture as part of the concept approval. Through this analysis, a $50M opportunity was identified. The concept was approved, including resources and funding to intercept the 2009 platform.

Identified and monitored risks throughout the project. Defined mitigation plans for each risk with options for marketing and the development teams. An example was the projected decline of the number of vendors manufacturing an external clocking component critical to the platform. Risk was a cost issue to the platform in the event the one remaining vendor increased pricing of the component. Cost/benefit analysis determined when the component cost would exceed the cost of integrating the functionality driving the need for integration.

Project managed external vendor to design/develop the initial 10 foot user interface for the digital home software stack using rapid development techniques. Drove requirements for the software stack which included a media server, control module, and networking module.

“Kathi has the talent of pulling people together. She almost creates some kind of ‘gravity well’ around her teams that keeps key contributors proactively and internally engaged.” RS, Project Stakeholder

Intel Corporation (Folsom, CA)

Graphics Software Product Marketing Engineer 7/2002-6/2004

As a Product Marketing Engineer, I drove all marketing activities for the product. This included preparing the product for market introduction; developing, updating, and communicating product strategies; driving product readiness; customer communications, engagement, and management; and supporting design win activity; co-developing product strategy with engineering and planning; ensuring customer requirements are understood by engineering.

Defined the 2004 graphics software marketing requirements and engaged closely with customers as their direct line of communication to engineering during the planning and development cycle. Insured customer requirements were met and customers were ready to launch. Worked very closely with a major OEM to obtain the first Microsoft® Media Center design win using our integrated graphics. Received Divisional Award from Director of Marketing for the design win effort/success.

Defined creative options and business impact analysis to resolve schedule issues, feature gaps, and expectation misalignments within the performing organizations. Example was partnering with hardware marketing to deliver early samples of the graphics chip to enable customer to build production boards in time to meet customer feedback deadlines for software bugs.

“Kathi clearly understands the customer needs and demands and she works to clearly define the priorities.” DL, Manager

Intel Corporation (Folsom, CA)

Information Technology Manager 5/1999-7/2002

As an IT Manager, I managed 19 Product Engineers who developed and supported the client OS/Core Apps builds and productivity solutions.

Project Manager to develop/deliver Email Effectiveness Coach, an Outlook Com add-in which monitors/notifies users of ineffective email behaviors real-time (i.e., no subject, reply to all, etc.). Add-in successfully deployed worldwide.

Project Manager to develop/deliver Conference Room Reservation application. Completed Outlook Com object with SQL backend, conversion tools, and worldwide deployment.

Project Manager to define client security processes for IT. Team developed repeatable processes to engineer and deploy critical, time-sensitive security patches to worldwide clients. Received a Special Recognition Reward from VP of Information Technology for this effort.

Implemented new project review process to streamline project status updates from team members. Defined template to drive consistency across the team as well as to ensure a comprehensive update. Review process and template became a new BKM for the entire engineering community

Project Manager to develop a new value segment server business model for an external vendor. Developed marketing plan including pros, cons, comparisons, and criteria. Proposed a risk-mitigated value server segment to senior management who ratified the new segment for the vendor.

“Kathi is a very good facilitator… Kathi has built a team of engineers that really enjoy working for her. They state she is one of the best managers they’ve worked for at Intel.” JP, Peer Manager

Intel Corporation (Folsom, CA)

Senior IT Product Manager 11/1996-5/1999

As an IT Product Manager, I managed the product life-cycles for Internet products from introduction through retirement using a structured release management process. I also defined the annual product roadmap and plans, including total cost model and ROI.

Released full suite of web developer’s tools based on customer needs. Tools included Visual InterDev, Visual Café, Java++, ColdFusion, PowerBuilder, Visual C++, SAS, Access, FrontPage, etc.

Project Manager to develop requirements and product niches for web application development tools. Developed usage and complexity models for light to medium weight and medium to heavy weight rapid application development environments. This was a new approach and was accepted by the development tools architect and engineering groups as well as the customer base.

Project Manager to implement a service-oriented focus, as opposed to product-oriented focus for rapid web application development/deployment. Defined components of each service and drove the release process for launch. This approach ensured the program introduced total integrated solutions to the customer while at the same time streamlining the process of releasing products into Intel’s environment.

Expanded role to include all Internet products including Internet servers, browsers and application development tools. Hired 4 product engineers to fulfill the expanded responsibility.

Intel Corporation (Folsom, CA)

Validation IT Manager 4/1993-11/1996

As a Validation Manager, I managed 4 areas: 1) Document control team which stores and manages all site classified documents, 2) Validation Execution team which defines, develops, debugs and deploys system for tracking WIP and inventory, 3) team managing the engineering database and analysis tools as well as the release and management of all product test programs, data storage and analysis tools and 4) the Project Scheduling team which supported the product development teams in defining their overall project schedule.

Project Manager to define, develop a validation shop floor control system which deployed across six worldwide validation centers

Project Manager to implement a failure analysis database for a new semiconductor product. Defined requirements, performed a make vs buy analysis. Hired and managed an external vendor to develop and implement the database in time for the initial product testing.

Project Manager to define and implement a new semiconductor tester utilization process/program. Managed a multi-site development team to develop, debug and proliferate the program across all validation centers. Resulted in an improvement in the usage and the accuracy of assigning/managing competing high priority product time for high demand multi-$M testing equipment.

Skills

Office 10 including PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft Project, Word

PMP trained; Certification pending

Problem Solving

Strong Work Ethic/Self-Motivated

Critical/Strategic Thinking

Leadership/Management

Time Management

Planning/Organization

Solid Communication Skills (Verbal, Written, and Listening)

Teamwork/Relationship Building

Balanced between Entrepreneurial thinking and creating/following established processes

Strong People Coach

Agile/Waterfall Development Methodologies

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