Karen L. Vlaminck, PMP

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984-***-**** • adi87a@r.postjobfree.com • LinkedIn Profile/ karen-vlaminck PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Results-oriented, multi-disciplined professional with 20 years of experience, skilled in multiple aspects of engineering and business, including project management, product development, and technical sales/marketing with demonstrated ability to successfully leverage both business and technical disciplines to drive results. Expertise and experience include:

• Project Manager for large, global programs, including a $100 million project at Eaton, with $50 million in the US, $30 million in EMEA, and $20 million in APAC; project included distribution, bypass, tie and battery cabinets that all worked in conjunction with and supported the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and conformed to UL standards.

• Worked with cross-functional teams in a contract medical device manufacturing environment to assist customers in getting their products validated and FDA cleared; worked closely with quality and regulatory to ensure products met requirements, minimizing particulate and errors in manufacturing and operations.

• Defined, developed, sequenced, and estimated activity durations to develop project schedules. Led weekly project meetings during the execution phase between the customer and the development teams, reporting on project status and any risks and opportunities that arose.

• Provided effective and efficient communication with customers and project teams to keep project goals and timelines aligned; this included communication with all stakeholders, including third-party suppliers and test facilities. Utilized tools such as LucidChart, Smartsheet, and PowerPoint to relay simplified timelines.

• Managed projects within established scopes, schedules and budgets while maintaining quality as a priority. balancing risks to meet project deadlines and maintaining strong documentation of project plans, schedules, tracking metrics and status reports.

• Facilitated meetings throughout the entire product life cycle, including the project initiation phase, the engineering R&D and validation phases and the product launch and production phases. EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS & PATENTS

Bachelor of Science: Mechanical Engineering, Penn State, State College, PA Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

NIDA Clinical Trials Network Good Clinical Practices (GCP) Certification U.S. Patent No. 9,125,312 B2 “Electrical Power Supply Systems Including Non-Freestanding Accessories and Methods for Using Same” 2015

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Nutanix, Durham, NC Jan 2019 - present

Senior Project Manager - Contract

• Managed a cross-functional team to develop a new global service provider program by enabling new routes to market and creating a comprehensive go-to-market program focused on delivering profitable cloud and managed services solutions.

• Managed multiple cross-functional teams in the development of the company’s first Centers of Excellence that serve the Americas, EMEA and APJ.

• Developed an automated business plan approval process in Smartsheet, wrote the accompanying business requirements document, created training material, and held live training sessions to educate colleagues on the new process. Conducted UAT testing, developed a metrics dashboard and monitored the ongoing approval process.

• Worked closely with the company legal team to develop and document a process by which terms and conditions are distributed to partners on an annual basis and partner responses are captured. Karen Vlaminck Page 2

• Managed members of the channel and partner marketing teams as well as the marketing operations team to launch a new partner portal with advanced functionality to allow partners to make intelligent decisions and accelerate partners through their sales cycles.

• Managed multi-functional teams and a third-party partner performance company to overhaul the existing partner program.

• Collaborated with the Bangalore channel sales operations team and the U.S. web development team to expand the abilities of a chat bot on the company home page and partner portal to answer partner questions regarding the new partner program and reduce the workload of the channel sales managers.

• Developed an executive-level project dashboard to communicate project progress, metrics, accomplishments, and next steps.

• Managed schedule and scope changes, identified risks and opportunities, facilitated meetings, captured, and distributed meeting minutes and action items and provided weekly status reports to stakeholders. Plexus Engineering Solutions, Raleigh, NC Aug 2019 – Dec 2019 Project Manager - Contract

• Led a team of engineers on the design of subsystems for a robotic, clinical chemistry diagnostic system. Served as the customer’s main point of contact and managed customer expectations regarding all aspects of the project, including setting expectations for challenges related to project scope, schedule, budget risks, deliverables, and changes to the original proposal.

• Used Agile methodology and JIRA for issue tracking and project management.

• Managed changes in project scope and schedule and communicate changes to the customer in a timely manner.

• Facilitated customer and team meetings to ensure schedule, budget and customer expectations were met.

• Provided the customer with written status reports on a weekly basis to summarize project status as well as schedule, budget, and risk issues.

• Worked with existing customers to solicit and secure additional work through business development activities.

• Worked with functional managers and other project managers, with oversight from the DPM and DOE, to assist project team members in a manner that assured adequate leadership, experience, and technical expertise.

• Used Microsoft Dynamics AX to track project P&L and project sales forecasts, including assuring positive and negative variances are appropriately forecasted.

• Utilized Microsoft Dynamics CRM to accurately project revenue for both active projects and opportunities.

• Managed team resources and partnered with the engineering team, manufacturing, and supply chain to identify solutions to meet the customer’s needs.

Robling Medical, Inc./ Medical Devices, Youngsville, NC Dec 2017 – July 2019 Engineering Project Manager

• Managed multiple fast-moving, high-risk projects concurrently, coordinating and collaborating cross- functionally with teams of up to twelve people across all phases of product development.

• Functioned as the primary point of contact for customers, suppliers, internal project teams and the leadership team.

• Collaborated with customers to gather requirements, establish project priorities and timelines, and communicate schedules, deliverables, milestones, and project risks to internal/external project stakeholders.

• Worked closely with third-party testing facilities to ensure products achieved regulatory compliance.

• Developed and maintained schedules, status reports, cost estimates, quotes and resource plans and tracked project costs and timelines against forecasts and plans to ensure budget control and manage customer expectations.

• Lead project meetings and created, maintained, and shared meeting minutes with customers and internal teams.

• Negotiated with stakeholders and project team members to resolve differing priorities and worked with Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs teams to ensure projects complied with regulatory requirements.

• Forecasted and managed resources and ensured deliverables were aligned across various projects and programs.

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• Tracked project costs and timelines against project plans to manage budget control and customer expectations.

• Worked with Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs teams to ensure projects complied with regulatory requirements.

TransEnterix, Inc./Medical Devices, Morrisville, NC Feb 2017 – Nov 2017 Project Manager

• Coordinated cross-functionally to develop and maintain project schedules and establish priorities, milestones, and deliverables. Led cross-functional teams to develop multiple robotic surgical devices for use with the Senhance Surgical Robotic System, which is used to improve clinical outcomes and patient care. Interfaced regularly with project team members in Europe.

• Contributed to the development, maintenance and approval of project plans, product and customer requirements, protocols, SOPs, and work instructions (WI) to develop medical devices that included mechanical, electrical and software development as well as product verification (including feasibility studies) and validation (including pre-clinical validation).

• Forecasted and managed resource allocation and worked closely with finance to forecast and track project budgets; maintained dashboard documents to track and report budgets, schedules, and resource metrics to define overall project health.

• Implemented and utilized a newly established phase-gate process and managed technical performance and project metrics during each project phase and worked closely with regulatory and quality teams to ensure that projects comply with regulatory requirements and design control procedures.

• Led stand-up meetings to identify critical and emerging challenges and coordinate efforts to resolve issues quickly; held retrospective meetings to obtain team feedback. Eaton, Electrical Sector/Power Quality/Critical Power Solutions (CPSD), Raleigh, NC 2010 – Feb 2017 Project Manager PMO (2015 – Feb 2017)

• Managed full project-scope delivery and successful execution of assigned projects while maintaining technical, schedule, financial and quality commitments, providing project-level report-outs periodically.

• Provided leadership to NPD cross-functional project teams in the areas of planning, resource management, scope management, performance tracking and control, risk/opportunity management and stakeholder management and communications, driving team accountability/performance in support of project objectives.

• Effectively utilized PROLaunch and project management methodology and processes and ensured products complied with quality and regulatory requirements (including UL, OSHPD, ISO, ASCE, CBC, ICC, ASTM).

• Developed and evaluated new business proposals and development of the overall program plan. Senior Mechanical Engineer / Project Manager Mechanical Engineering / PMO (2010 – 2015)

• Managed and coordinated all efforts relating to seismic testing and OSHPD certification of the 3-wire, 93PM product line, increasing healthcare facility sales opportunities in California and surrounding states.

• Developed and designed a removable-style sidecar for 93PM that helped drive the bypass sidecar attach rate to 80%. Earned a patent entitled “Electrical Power Supply Systems Including Non-Freestanding Accessories and Methods for Using Same.”

• Hosted three Technical and Innovation Symposiums that improved employee understanding of finite element analysis and the seismic certification process (OSHPD) and detailed my Six Sigma Green Belt project. Mallett Technology, Inc., Raleigh, NC May 2005 – Oct 2008 Applications Engineer

• Worked closely with the sales team to understand customer issues and expectations prior to on-site visits.

• Prepared and presented technical presentations and demonstrations to address customer issues and needs.

• Taught ANSYS training classes to allow engineers to expand their understanding of finite element analysis and improve their ability to perform analysis more efficiently and effectively.

• Provided ANSYS technical support to customers via a technical support hotline, providing them the opportunity to resolve their technical issues quickly.

• Worked closely with customers to determine the scope of work, manpower estimates and schedules and negotiate the cost for consulting opportunities.

Powerware (Eaton) UPS, Raleigh, NC Mar 2000 – May 2005 Mechanical Engineer

• Provided mechanical engineering support for the new product development team, which included design and structural and thermal analysis of sheet metal enclosures. Karen Vlaminck Page 4

Norfolk, Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA Jun 1999 – Mar 2000 Mechanical Engineer

• Examined vessels to identify mechanical system and piping problems and compiled and analyzed data for evaluation of structural components.

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