Darrell Smith

919-***-****

adg62i@r.postjobfree.com

Profile Summary

Over five years of initiating and delivering sustained results and effective change for organizations, across a wide range of industries including aerospace, telecommunications, and finance. Major experience lies in quantitative analysis, benchmarking, organizing and leading cross-functional teams, leading to improvement in strategy, process, and profitability both as a leader and expert consultant.

Professional Experience

NTT Data Services Raleigh, NC June 2020-Present

Project Management Consultant - Financial Services (Contract)

Oversee the development of the Incentive Compensation program for Top 10 U.S bank merger.

Assemble the leadership team that created the system requirements for the intrabank Salesforce referrals process. This assignment required leveraging cross functional relationships to ensure the proper SMEs were involved in the discovery sessions, requirements documentation, and approvals.

Led the critical path analysis, alongside the enterprise technology team, creating the merger’s project schedule for producing new Salesforce interfaces.

Develop and manage project risk and issue management plans. Analyzing risks and severity to assess their impact on project deliverables.

Present program status to executive leadership with the intent to provide transparency, escalate project risk and issues, and communicate strategies for changes in scope.

Technical skills include Salesforce, advanced MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, MS SharePoint

Amphenol Network Solutions Raleigh, NC August 2017-May 2020

Project Manager II

Directed (58) product development projects with 93% on time delivery, and 91% project completion within budget.

Present business cases to executive management, recommend potential projects, and oversee the product development life cycle.

Partner with the product and sales teams to continuously evaluate pricing models and translating pricing decisions into clear business outcomes, driving the company’s roadmap, and working cross-functionally to operationalize.

Provide data interpretation to identify and make recommendations on factors affecting pricing, margins and expected trends for current portfolio and new product introduction.

Present metrics at key cross-departmental business reviews and determine the way to guide lasting results based on data analysis.

Build cross-functional relationships to gain alignment from peers, leaders, and stakeholders in the implementation of key strategic programs

Actively engage in discussions involving market opportunities, competitive landscape, business models and GTM strategies to assist in business case development.

Technical skills include Salesforce (CRM), Tableau, SQL Queries, Advanced MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Teams, SolidWorks PDM

Flowserve Inc. Raleigh, NC October 2015-August 2017

Project Manager

Work with the Proposals Management team as needed to provide customized bill rates and other financial information for incoming RFIs and RFPs.

Identify and develop key performance indicators to manage reporting of business performance through profitability analysis.

Develop analytical framework that provided trend data and forecast that drove decision making process.

Championed (11) manufacturing improvement projects, accounting for $500K in cost savings and increased on time delivery 8%

Provide in-house consulting, related to strategy and business practices for the Sales and Services team

Perform routine updates to data models to maintain a high level of data integrity.

Synthesize project statuses into presentations and reports for executive management to understand resource utilization.

Technical skills include SAP (ERP), SAP Business Objects, Salesforce, SQL Queries, Advanced MS Excel, MS Project, MS PowerPoint

Honda Aircraft Company Greensboro, NC September 2014-September 2015

Program Analyst I (Contract)

Guided product development activities utilizing data models to evaluate progress and impact to overall company performance.

Support Finance and Program Management in ad-hoc analysis, and complete all other assignments given by executive management as business needs require; prepared financial models and processed documentation as needed.

Identify trends and recommend performance objectives to management.

Led the implementation of (9) SAP updates achieving 100% on-time, under budget delivery.

Developed use cases, to create streamline process for purchase order request, eliminating the information lag experienced by the purchasing department. On-time delivery rate increased 22% with the implementation of this program.

Technical skills include SAP (ERP), SQL Queries, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Education

East Carolina University

August 2008-December 2012

Bachelor of Science, Business Administration

Concentration: Marketing

Certifications & Recognitions

Appreciation Award – Flowserve (2016) - Continuous Improvement Project

Sponsor of the CRM automation initiative.

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certified

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