DALE PRENTISS

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aczpi0@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/prentissdale/ SUMMARY A results-driven and forward-thinking business process manager with a proven track record in meeting strategy, business analysis, operations/workflow analysis, outreach and engagement, production scheduling, labor loading, capacity requirements, training/teaching, product development, strategic partnerships, and process management. Draws from extensive education and teaching background to engage, align, and influence teams, customers, and stakeholders. Leverages vast technical proficiency in SAP, Business Objects, Outlook, and customized Excel Queries. Resourceful, detail-oriented, and analytical, able to logically process information and determine appropriate stakeholders, ensuring the completion of projects effectively and in a timely manner. EXPERIENCE TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Tucson, Arizona

BUSINESS PLANNER 2012-2017

Managed strategy meetings between customers, factories, and engineering teams and operations team. Improved customer satisfaction while reducing costs, redundancies, and shipment delinquencies for $800,000,000 business. Generated quarterly web content for worldwide TI employee website about community outreach and engagement activities for TI marketing department. Worked with PA engineering teams on new products to establish production schedules, labor loading, and capacity requirements.

• Coordinated production plans at worldwide factories for over 700 products using SAP, Business Objects, Outlook, and customized Excel Queries to ensure materials were delivered on time to customers with 98% accuracy over 5 consecutive years, exceeding expectations and earning company-wide recognition for my team.

• Interfaced daily with customers, marketing, sales, production, and engineering to ensure customer satisfaction for design changes, labor/material shortages, product ramps, and natural or man-made disasters.

• Annually trained finance and operation interns on TI processes and prepared them for networking opportunities with TI’s management team.

• Developed globally implemented enhanced new product development checklist for TI business planners that led to series of training courses for TI employees addressing inefficacies in TI’s original new product development checklist.

• Created strategic plan for aging inventory for PA, leading to $2,100,000 reduction in scrap over six months.

• Collaborated in closure of two obsolete factories for TI; offloading of profitable parts and creation of new operation flows.

DEMAND MANAGER 2011-2012

Forecasted demand for a $500,000,000 business, as part of TI’s future quarters demand estimation for investors and the public. Managed quarterly strategic planning forecasts between engineering, finance, and operations teams. Developed Excel Queries for forecasting models to determine market growth, seasonality cycles, and customer fluctuations.

• Synthesized demand fluctuations at a micro level to help determine market changes that would require operational changes to inventory buffer strategies at the macro level.

• Evaluated quarterly financial data weekly for a $500,000,000 business to increase opportunities for Maxout.

• Led and coordinated monthly meetings between marketing, sales, finance, and operations team to ensure business plan was being followed and updated based on relevant data.

• Worked with product line engineering managers to predict future business growth for analog chips. Dale Prentiss, Page 2

AZD CONSULTING Tucson, Arizona

SALES MARKETING ANALYST 2011

Initially hired by a small firm to help organize and coordinate customer contacts and write government grants for existing customers. Performed market analysis to help the company focus on correct market segment to increase revenues. Took charge of initiating customer contact with a carefully crafted company sales pitch.

• Increased customer base by over 500% in first two months for struggling company by introducing new marketing initiative and implementing proven sales techniques during sales calls and emails.

• Helped overwhelmed firm meet deadlines and retain 100% of customers seeking customized business plans for bank loans by effectively managing key objectives and cultivating relationships with stakeholders. MCGUIRE CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP Tucson, Arizona SOCIAL MEDIA AND SPECIAL PROJECTS INTERN 2010-2011 Created first social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook for the McGuire Center and then used Social Media Optimization (SMO) Strategies to increase impressions and engagement reach of marketing campaigns. Used historical university data and social media analytics to identify alumni throughout the world.

• Enhanced alumni engagement by 450% through social media and development of new website.

• Saved McGuire Center $30,000 by researching more efficient and professional methods for applicants to request admission.

CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS Chicago, Illinois

STRATEGIC CAPITAL INITIATIVES INTERN, CPS HEADQUARTERS 2010 Met with diverse groups of people working with or for CPS to determine their role in the organizational structures and create process maps of individual job responsibilities including their reporting structures. Success relied on personal ability to manage up in a highly stratified and complex work culture. Strategic relationship management skills were utilized to build relationships and trust across the full spectrum of CPS organization and their vendors.

• Coordinated process mapping plan to increase network knowledge of chain of command and informal networks for 25,000 employees.

• Built 113 technology integration process maps for $10,000,000 in new software upgrades. TUCSON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Tucson, Arizona

TEACHER AT BRICHTA ELEMENTARY AND BOOTH-FICKETT MAGNET 2003-2009 Taught 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade in TUSD over six years, using best teaching practices to excel in the classroom. After three years at Booth-Fickett, accepted a job at Brichta to serve as the teacher and mentor for 4th Grade team and participate in the first school to have laptops for every child in TUSD. Integrated technology into classes, increasing student’s average standardized test scores by 11.1%.

• Trained students to use software and hardware including Smartboard to raise proficiency with technology and drive more “real-world” education by using laptops during 50% of classroom time.

• Evaluated and responded to students’ interest in technology by creating “Techster’s Club” to enable students to expand their technology skills (FrontPage, PowerPoint, Movie Maker, and Photo Story) at Brichta Elementary.

• Coached the Booth-Fickett Middle School’s Boys Soccer Team to two second place finishes in TUSD ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE RAVENSWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT, East Palo Alto, California, TEACHER AT EDISON-MCNAIR ACADEMY, 2001-2002. Dale Prentiss, Page 3

EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, Tucson, Arizona

MBA, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MARKETING, 2011

BA, HISTORY; MINOR: LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES, 2001

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY, San Diego, California

MULTIPLE SUBJECT K-8 TEACHING CREDENTIALS FOR CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA, 2003 AFFILIATION AZREIA

CAMP WILDCAT

UNITED WAY

AWARDS

• Texas Instruments PA Operations: Five Years of On-Time Delivery > 95% 2016

• The Berger Entrepreneur for 2010-2011 by the McGuire Entrepreneurship Center 2011

• Marketing Leadership Award for 2010-2011 by the U of A Marketing Department 2011

• Teacher of the Year: Booth-Fickett Magnet School for 200*-****-**** COMPUTER SKILLS Business Objects, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Social Media Optimization, Website Building

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